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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods The recent earthquakes in ... in local cities and villages, bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning might have ... the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

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06/18/2015

... criminal justice system harms them and doesn’t work for public safety. In fact, only New York and North Carolina ...

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Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Brooklyn Org

Long Island Community Foundation

The Tow Foundation

New York Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

The David Rockefeller Fund

Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... scientists whose research holds exceptional promise for advancing the frontiers of knowledge about how biological ... Scholars will receive grants of up to $110,000 per year for a maximum of five years to...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... and beauty cannot be disregarded or dismissed as a luxury for the well-off or left to a few. We must embrace the arts ...

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Arts

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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

Trusts, such as the New York Community Trust, have to ensure money is spent as intended, but things can get fuzzy as times change.

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The New York Community Trust

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State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support

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10/19/2015

... risks. The Milbank Memorial Fund provided support for this report by assisting with its review and ... care regulatory frameworks? State policymakers are looking for evidence and experience to help them answer...

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

... before the ACA passed, and currently covers only about 5 percent of marketplace enrollees. Rather, together with ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

... grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick ... of children and youth have been excluded from school for disciplinary reasons...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... Late Monday night, in a stunning development for a struggling business, that’s pretty close to what the ... runs all three of the outlets, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the...

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Communications/Media

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The Tow Foundation

Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... do good and bad things, including you. You can never know for sure what you would do in another person’s shoes.” ...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... these white beliefs were delusional, and in other survey questions whites blithely acknowledged racist attitudes. In ...

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Justice Reform

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... Discipline Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The ... J. Skiba and M. Karega Rausch, she seeks to answer three questions : • Why are some...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Education

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

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09/09/2016

... within a narrow temperature range. Experiments on these questions dating back 80 years, using rats and mice, have ...

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... of the genome is transcribed into RNA that does not code for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this ... lncRNAs have been identified in humans, but functions for...

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Science

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NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

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10/31/2016

It seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Ford's Darren Walker joined the board of PepsiCo, which makes the bulk of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks.

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Economic Security

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

... a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to go after critics), the rule of ...

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Civic Engagement

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The Century Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

... before and an African American woman who has lived there for sixty years. All were there to answer the key question, “What is our shared vision for Crown Heights?” Over the next three hours, they built ...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare

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03/31/2017

... leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in store for Medicare in this rapidly changing health care landscape. ... as the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers...

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Video

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New York Health Foundation

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

... ‘Extraordinary Times’ These are extraordinary times. For more than 25 years, Nathan Cummings Foundation’s ... the Environmental Protection Agency and National Endowment for the Arts are being undermined...

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