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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, myself included, tend to be of two minds: We like the idea that the wealthy are ... social good and we're excited by the...

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Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports. This .....

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper Flavor Paper (flavorpaper.com) also produces ... prints and film stills for inspiration. Some papers, such as Flowers, Elvi and the...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... with a high birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. The researchers say .....

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Health

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population – are covered by at least one ... quadrupled since 2007 when only 1 billion people, and 15% of the world’s population, were...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, ... “Before Farm to Table will use the pervasiveness of food in everyday life as...

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Food Systems

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... zoning hardly ended racial discrimination in housing, as whites adopted biased policies like economic zoning that ... zoning was in effect exclusionary, accomplishing much of the same results as...

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Economic Security

Housing and Homelessness

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... 13, 2017, at 7:30pm with leading food system thinkers such as Ruth Reichl, Sam Kass, Danielle Nierenberg, Stephanie ... wastED initiative, a pop-up devoted to the theme of re-using foods that would otherwise...

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Food Systems

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... This Study Finds against the Myth In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... and math. The gap is largest in Albany, where 42 percent of white students passed the state's 2017 English language arts exam compared to 27 percent of Asian students, 16 percent of...

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Education

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

... How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “I am so tired of dealing with ‘grassroots’ organisations here in Haiti. ... don’t care about their children anyway.” “I know of cases where individuals have allegedly...

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... in East Harlem gets a facelift every few months — a new mural painted by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed ... painted “the most political” one yet, says a founder of the collective, O’Sheena Smith, 38...

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Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy

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08/30/2017

Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy For those of us who experienced Superstorm Sandy, watching Texas suffer ... and the acts of everyday heroism are profoundly inspiring. As of...

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Environment and Climate Change

Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... Joy. Fear. Anticipation. Those were the emotions I felt as my husband and I welcomed our daughter Norah into the world. I couldn’t have imagined the rush of emotions I would feel or that I could have so many...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... overweight. Although she can’t pinpoint the source of her feelings, she said they go back as far as she can remember. And she is hardly alone. Decades ... yet they can strongly influence...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of hunger nationally. The initiative raises awareness that ... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format...

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Food Systems

From the Ground Up

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals. Global developmental mandates and economic ... planning models often reduce India’s poor to a set of abstract data. Along with funding flows...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... Boxes Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and ... mother who signs up and comes in for a prenatal checkup. As a result, parents save time and...

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