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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... The Tow Foundation has awarded $75,000 grants to six New York City theatres to support a playwright of their choosing as the 2016–17 Tow ...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was ... Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the...

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At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... Tuesday appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality. “In the end, ...

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Economic Security

Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Spark Prize to Honor Nonprofit Changemakers

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04/20/2016

... the inaugural Spark Prize, the first and only honor of its kind celebrating changemakers in the borough’s ... collectively receive less than 5% of funds distributed by New York...

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At the Rockefellers’ Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy

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05/23/2016

... Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy The story of the American industrial, philanthropic and political ... Nelson Rockefeller’s stewardship as governor of New...

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With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence

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06/17/2016

... Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence In collaboration with New York ’s Music-Theatre Group, Opera Philadelphia is proud to ... chosen for the three-season position from a national field ...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... meant to bolster the fight against climate change. The New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10 million to Mainstream ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with ... between the arts and civic leaders. View the Upstate New York video here...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF), the number of districts and charter schools with programs that promote ... Connecticut; Jefferson County, Kentucky; and New York City, the...

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Education

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities

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10/21/2016

... opportunity in disadvantaged neighborhoods. As part of the firm’s $125 million, five-year PRO Neighborhoods ... of their hometowns of Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami and...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... project will, among other things, help establish a state- of -the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York -Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital . ...

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The Wallace Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries

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01/17/2017

... candy while a 32-piece orchestra sounded the opening notes of Verdi's "Macbeth," presented by the three-year-old ... location receded behind the vivid production. In New York ,...

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After ' ... organizational gyrations. After the Philanthropy New York program, " Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: .....

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Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge to Benefit 14 Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. and UK

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03/23/2017

... and UK Morgan Stanley on March 22 announced the launch of the ninth annual Strategy Challenge, the Firm’s ... the next ten weeks, teams of Morgan Stanley employees in New York...

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NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment

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03/28/2017

NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment The National Council of Nonprofits ... Amendment in tax reform legislation. Philanthropy New York...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a transformative program that has developed nearly 3,000 ...

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... on Henry Street Settlement Engage to Change comes out of discussions with organizations and a mapping process to ... We hosted a series of conversations with a dozen New York...

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Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights

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04/19/2017

... on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers is partnering with ... Association network, including the members of Philanthropy New...

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... World’s 50 Best List in 2016, was planning to open one of his food waste-fighting soup kitchens, called Refettorios, in the Bronx with support from New York ’s Italian consulate. On a recent...

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