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Participate in the 2013 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey

Release Date:

06/20/2013

... for everyone's participation. Philanthropy New York will use the Council’s online benchmarking tool to generate ... of the Council, and the data confidentiality and use policies are unchanged. For more...

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30 May 2013

Knowledge Tools for Funders

Thursday, May 30, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Technology is fundamentally changing the way funders do their work. Knowledge tools help funders track trends in their areas of interest, find resources focused on their issues, build capacity for themselves and their foundation colleagues and...

Philanthropy's Difficult Dance With Inequality

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07/08/2015

... With Inequality America's foundations do not easily use the word "inequality." This may seem surprising in the ... and recorded by Foundation Center since 2004, only 251 use the word "...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

Release Date:

10/19/2015

... 10,000 members across the nation. All member organizations use a similar democratic grantmaking process to award local ... giving grantmakers have demonstrated their responsible use of all three. . . BofA...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... healthcare providers, the iMHere system is feasible for use by young patients with spina bifida, according to the ... M. Collins PhD, OT. “This system holds promise for use in many diverse chronic care models...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

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01/06/2016

Low-income adults in Kentucky and Arkansas, which both expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, were more likely to be insured and less likely to have problems paying medical bills, compared to others in states which did not...

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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

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01/06/2016

Curbing school bullying has been a focal point for educators, administrators, policymakers and parents, but the answer may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University.

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Proteus Fund Reports on Orlando Rapid Response Fund Grantmaking

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08/11/2016

... being vented in the wake of this tragedy. We sought to use our Orlando Rapid Response Fund to build the capacity for ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

... up city streets. Teams from the city sanitation department use video and smartphones to document illegal dumping, ... bulky items and other trash problems. The teams can use an app to report problems needing...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

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09/15/2017

... for a woman, four such drinks in a day. And “alcohol use disorders” (we used to call it alcoholism), as defined ...

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Freedom Together Foundation

Fair Health Launches New Healthcare Portal YouCanPlanForThis.Org with Support From the New York State Health Foundation

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02/07/2018

Men and women of all age groups have been visiting YouCanPlanForThis.org , a free website created by independent nonprofit FAIR Health that enables New York State residents to plan their healthcare costs.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.

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Open Society Foundations Announce Inaugural Soros Arts Fellows

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05/09/2018

The Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the first recipients of the Soros Arts Fellowship, a new initiative to support innovative mid-career artists using art and public space to advance pluralistic, democratic, and just societies.

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United Hospital Fund Releases Report Finding Wide Variation in Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for NYS Medicaid Patients

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06/22/2018

... Right Prescription: Assessing Potentially Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics Among New York’s Medicaid Population , ... which do not respond to antibiotics. The inappropriate use of antibiotics for viral ARIs...

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United Hospital Fund

With Support From UJA-Federation Of New York, The Mayor’s Office For People With Disabilities Launches The First Cyber Security Training For People With Disabilities

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10/23/2018

This program uses a train-to-place model that will prepare individuals with disabilities to secure employment in the cyber security industry. It delivers an industry-recognized Cisco certification program through a curriculum adapted to suit various...

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UJA-Federation of New York

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant Helps Launch AGU Ethics and Equity Antiharassment Initiative

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07/12/2019

... address an urgent problem using a data-driven, ready to use approach that the science community needs.” Focusing on ...

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Health Care Spending in New York Growing Faster Than Rest of U.S., New Report from The New York State Health Foundation

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07/30/2019

... State-level analysis of health care spending. It looks at use of services and prices by type of service: inpatient, ...

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New York Health Foundation

12 Mar 2020

The Power of a Name: Considering Privacy, Publicity, and Transparency - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, March 12, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... experiment and potentially fail. For families that want to use their names more intentionally, it is important to ...

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Family Foundation

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

06 Feb 2018

Homelessness Innovations: Are Known Solutions Informing NYC’s Response to Youth Homelessness?

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... campaign to end chronic veteran homelessness in NYC, and how to adapt them to address youth homelessness The ... of homelessness and other social issues and how housing stability can improve outcomes in health...

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