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Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)

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01/05/2016

... find a vegetable farm at a public housing development in New York City. But a one-acre farm at Red Hook Houses—the ... access to fresh produce in communities with high levels of poverty, food...

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Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems

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06/26/2018

... Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems New York may be known as a concrete jungle, but throughout its five boroughs, there are thousands of parks ,...

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Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

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06/19/2014

... (PRIs) have contributed to the financial sustainability of its investees and are helping them accomplish social goals ... to products and services on more equitable terms and in new ways to...

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Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System

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04/06/2015

... promote fundamental changes that will reshape the delivery of health care for all Americans. The grant will support ... health advocates with the skills they need to assess the financial complexity and risk...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients The Doris Duke ... Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, launched in late 2011 as a special 10-year initiative of...

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... that will apply behavioral economics to identify new ways to help millions of Americans improve their saving and spending habits. The ... and make informed big purchase decisions and end- of -...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store locations by analyzing customer, economic and other data. And as Amazon's customers know so well, the company...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

... R. Dodge Foundation has not only adopted the red knot bird as a poetic symbol of the modern plight of migrants and refugees; it is sending ... the foundation, whose major programs include...

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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... commonly performed health care services. The next phase of the site—expected in February 2018—will also include ... The website is www.YouCanPlanForThis.org With out- of -pocket costs on the rise, more people...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies The Ford ... The group is known for spending creatively to find new ways to solve problems: Typically,...

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Klarman and Barr Foundations Team up on $25 Million Arts Initiative

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10/04/2018

... to 29 Massachusetts arts nonprofits in connection with a new initiative aimed at strengthening the financial health and capacity of those organizations. The grants are part of...

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Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Announce Inaugural Science Nonfiction Film Grants

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11/16/2018

... filmmakers received grants and other critical support as part of a new program to elevate the voices of independent artists ...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants The Joan Mitchell ... the foundation said, 70 percent of the grantees identify as female and approximately 80...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was hired in 2004 by the ... (and now Democratic senator) who conceived the Consumer Financial Protection Board. Along...

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

Release Date:

09/05/2018

... lining, too: stirring in Puerto Ricans an outpouring of community activism aimed at repairing the damage and ... duration (applicants may also be awarded prorated financial support for part-time projects)...

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... journalists, and people who have spent time in prison. NEW YORK —The Open Society Foundations today awarded $1.25 million to the newest class of Soros Justice Fellows working on a range...

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... Applicants The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York -based family foundation. In 2015 up to ten Prizes will ...

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Technology

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Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

Release Date:

04/27/2015

... and America's Promise Alliance have announced the launch of a $3 million fund in support of innovative, scalable ... that prepare low-income youth for today's workforce. A new...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers

Release Date:

06/08/2015

... Nonprofit Developers Capital One announced the launch of its Blueprints to Buildings Fund (B2B Fund) that will aid ... The company has selected six nonprofits—three in New York City and three...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor,...

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