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John A. Hartford Foundation Supporting Advanced Social Work Training

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12/19/2014

... skills they need to help strengthen social work practice on the front lines of health care service ... will train 160 master’s level social work supervisors in four regions (New York, Maryland, Illinois, and...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Natasha Lifton Joins The New York Community Trust as Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and Families

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03/16/2015

... direct The Trust’s Fund for Social Policy Education and Practice at Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work. ...

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Aging

Children, Youth and Families

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Staying the Course: Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/13/2015

... William S. Moody joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 1968, and for the next four decades he helped shape the fund's grantmaking programs in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central and .....

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... for Surviving Its Worst Moods The recent earthquakes in Nepal, along with the ongoing and tragic aftermath in local cities and villages, bring to mind inevitable ... another challenge. One group that is...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ten New York Nonprofits Selected as Semifinalists of 2015 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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08/04/2015

... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Ten nonprofit groups in three New York City boroughs and Westchester have been ... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The groups are in the running to win $60,000 in...

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Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors

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08/20/2015

... to contribute to it. One strategy they supported began in 2002, when Jeff Solomon, president of the Andrea and ... to benefits by more directly funding critical issues in the Jewish world. With initial...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... Berkeley. The Learning Policy Institute will be based in Palo Alto, Calif. but will also have a Washington office. ... And it's coming on the scene at a time of major transition in areas like...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Ford Foundation

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Releases Report on Grantmaking to Create Impact

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09/17/2015

... Edna McConnell Clark Foundation made its first investment in Good Shepherd in 2005, the organization’s ability to develop and deliver ...

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Community Development

Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Atlantic's Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International Philanthropy

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09/21/2015

... more than $7 billion to bring about lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people around ... foundation, Atlantic will complete its grantmaking in 2016. Atlantic has promoted...

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... imagine trying to figure it out if all the information was in another language. That is exactly what happens to millions of Spanish-speaking workers and their families in the United States, and it’s costing...

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in socially responsible investing. Just as the formation of ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

Q & A with Anisa Kamadoli Costa, President of Tiffany & Co. Foundation, about Sustainability Initiatives and Goals

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01/04/2016

... by partnering with NGOs, investors and our employees in setting goals and measuring performance to build alignment ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... The late Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year. But scientists at the Salk Institute ... for which there has been practically no improvement in treatment outcome for years,"...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Report on Uninsured Immigrants & Insurance Coverage

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02/01/2016

... hospitals. However, the ACA imposes significant cutbacks in compensating charity care, leaving a greater burden on ... the insurance needs of the immigrants left behind. In this report, the Community Service...

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New York Health Foundation

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Former NYC Official & Former Philadelphia Mayor Named 'What Works Cities' Senior Fellows (Bloomberg)

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02/08/2016

... Senior Fellows, providing expert guidance to city leaders in participating What Works Cities as they expand their use ... movement focused on utilizing what works practices in government decision-making...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

... health care issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. With Commonwealth Fund support, ... apps, a potentially promising tool for engaging patients in their health care, particularly...

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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation Strong principals are ... leaders usually receive far less attention than teachers in the national conversation about education. The...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

... Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine? About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care ... Fund survey findings show. Primary care physicians in both nations say they’re having a...

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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

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07/05/2016

Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing ... as to issue this brave statement about Ford’s historical practice of only allowing 10% of their project grants to go ... program that was...

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