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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... Skids In 2013, the New York city council approved a plan for a gleaming new development in the Willets Point section of Queens—a ... Point development project is stalled, the Bronx landlord...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... to date in seven companies focused on developing therapies for T1D — including beta cell replacement therapies, a ...

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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Issues Consensus Report On Diabetes In Association With The ADA

Release Date:

11/22/2017

... the past three months. HbA1C is also a surrogate measure for a person's risk of developing diabetes-related ... outcomes such as hypoglycemia. However, while deﬁnitions for hypoglycemia in clinical care...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

Release Date:

02/02/2018

... harbor two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage development of the disease, and the same species have been ... findings could lead to new ways to more effectively screen for and ultimately prevent...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

Release Date:

02/16/2018

... Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria In separate studies, researchers test bacteria that suppresses development of malaria parasite, genetic...

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Perpetuity, continued

Release Date:

04/24/2014

By Tony Proscio, Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke ... (you can see Bruce’s summary of the session here ). A foundation veteran who for many years led the Communications...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

Release Date:

06/19/2014

... nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation --want to see if the rapidly growing global supply ... around the world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

Release Date:

06/23/2014

NYPL Wins $500,0000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project New York Public Library is one of ... Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , Ford Foundation and...

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Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

Release Date:

08/28/2014

... Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how ... is a member of the Executives’ Alliance, a group of foundation leaders who work on...

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Social Justice

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

Release Date:

05/16/2016

... import but are unexplored relative to their consequences for millions of Americans. EPIC's work is supported by JP Morgan Chase & Co., as well as Ford Foundation , MetLife Foundation...

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MetLife

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

Release Date:

03/10/2017

... Additional support is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation , the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Jerome Robbins Foundation . The Family Series is sponsored by Queens Center ...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Release Date:

07/24/2017

Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch ... describes philanthropy as something that's in her DNA. Foundation Center's Jen Bokoff, a former employee of the foundation...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

Release Date:

02/22/2018

... In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation , the U.S. Department of Education has started to ... of regulatory noncompliance: the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (...

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Education

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Closing Space for Open Society

Release Date:

05/17/2018

Closing Space for Open Society The operating environment has gotten so ugly ... to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week they will relocate their ... more complex story...

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Measuring Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums

Release Date:

06/26/2018

... Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums As the Mellon Foundation considered how best to diversify curatorial staff ... to show the extent of the problem. In 2015, the Mellon Foundation partnered with the...

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Video

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Workforce Development

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Mellon Foundation

02 Sep 2020

Balancing Purpose, Payout, and Permanence - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Wednesday, September 2, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

The National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* “How much should we ... of the same name, this webinar will help you revisit your ...

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Family Foundation

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Governance

Russia's Real Friends in the West

Release Date:

01/27/2013

An op-ed by Deana Arsenian, Vice President for International Program and Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Corporation of New ... that he is open to alternative perspectives about Russia...

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Leadership for Education Innovation

Release Date:

05/24/2014

Leadership for Education Innovation [Carnegie Corporation of New York] ... authors Education Week piece: "Looking to implications for the country, the question is, What will it take to do ... years of...