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Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... a long-standing interest in nutrition, and was conscious of health issues because of diabetes in his family. I met ... M. Tisch Illumination Fund is supporting the start-up of a new...

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Food Systems

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

News Stories about Philanthropy and Hurricane Sandy Recovery

... 2012 to 2013, Philanthropy New York tracked news coverage of Hurricane Sandy response and recovery efforts. Seized ... groups are sugg, , esting they give money Money pours into ...

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Supports Construction Projects Through 'Pay for Success' Loans

Release Date:

11/02/2015

... Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc., announced a first- of -its-kind loan product, the Pay for Success (PFS) Construction Loan. The new PFS Construction Loan is designed to cover the upfront ... They will...

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David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall

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10/05/2017

David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall The media mogul David Geffen, one ... world’s leading philanthropists, attacked wealthy New Yorkers on Wednesday for what he called a “shameful...

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$2.5 Million Fund to Bolster NYC Human Service Providers

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... and Mizuho USA foundations are among those supporting a new funder collaborative to help human service providers in New York City , reported PND. The Nonprofit Finance Fund...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $80 Million

Release Date:

04/19/2019

... announced grants totaling more than $80 million in support of journalism, civic engagement, and inclusion and access ... Grants were awarded to ninety-five organizations in the United States, Greece, the...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Chief Financial Officer / Director of Finance

Publication date:

11/2013

... Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job Descriptions: Chief Financial Officer / Director of Finance ...

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Can You Run A City Based on Happiness?

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07/17/2015

Can You Run A City Based on Happiness? It’s hard to imagine anyone ... Monica, California. The affluent beachfront city , a suburb of Los Angeles, is home to surfers, students, and celebrities...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers

Release Date:

08/06/2013

A blog post by Robert C . Hockett, Fellow at The Century Foundation. For six years ... brought relentlessly worsening blight, growing numbers of abandoned neighborhoods, and rapidly proliferating ... bankruptcies...

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When It Comes To Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In

Release Date:

06/24/2014

... Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In The idea of building a resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ford Foundation Webcast: Inclusive Growth in Cities Campaign

Release Date:

03/28/2016

... Foundation is hosting a live webcast marking the launch of its Inclusive Growth in Cities campaign. This kickoff ...

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At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities

Release Date:

10/15/2014

... Africa is in a unique position, although the issue of building inclusive economies is really a global challenge. Almost everywhere in the world, a small portion of the population owns a lion's share the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities

Release Date:

09/29/2014

... be linked to 1.4 million deaths in 2015. More than 90% of traffic fatalities occur in low- and middle-income ... where traffic laws haven't kept up with the growing number of vehicles clogging roads, the...

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Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities

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06/07/2013

... and six other cities next year, slashing the number of the fundraising events by half, as participation continues to drop more than a year after a ...

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City's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success"

Release Date:

07/13/2014

City 's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary ... in low-income neighborhoods. The program, known as "The Green Cart Initiative," which made permits available ... The evaluation...

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Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge

Release Date:

11/03/2015

... own businesses. Every year NFTE brings together several of those young entrepreneurs into a series of competitions--two years ago, I profiled those competitions ... level--to determine which student culminated...

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Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... is national interest. But Harvey will leave a huge amount of wreckage behind, some of it invisible. In particular, we don’t yet know just how much poison has been released by flooding of...

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Providence Wins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Cities Challenge

Release Date:

03/13/2013

The Providence Talks project, which will help low-income parents improve their kids’ language skills, secured the $5 million top prize for Providence, R.I., in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge.