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Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History

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03/25/2016

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall after five years of construction, is gaining backing from a wide array of donors.

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Aetna Foundation

Clark Foundation Illustrates Grantmaking for a Rainy Day

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05/02/2016

Following the 2008 financial crisis, Clark identified working capital as a much more critical need for the nonprofits in its portfolio.

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NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care

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05/09/2016

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is again under fire for the dangerously long waiting lists for appointments at the nation’s VA health care facilities, and for calculating those wait times in a way that masks the true extent of the problem.

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Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit Convenes Leaders To Discuss Economic Priorities for Next President

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05/11/2016

Leading experts and policymakers from across the political spectrum gather today to discuss the fiscal and economic priorities for the next president, at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2016 Fiscal Summit: Leadership for a Secure Future.

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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

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

Over the next three years, we will raise the minimum pay for 18,000 employees to between $12 and $16.50 an hour.

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

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08/22/2016

Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history rhymes rather than repeats itself. For New Yorkers who have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change.

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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

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03/24/2017

Food waste is increasingly garnering attention from governments, businesses and private individuals as its impact on both environmental health, food security as well as bottom lines — companies that invest in reducing food waste can expect a 14:1...

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Phil TV This Week March 24

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03/24/2017

Clare Church of the New York Community Trust guest anchors PhilTV This Week.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

Long Island’s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 alone were it not for racial inequities resulting in an income gap faced by African-American residents, according to a report released Monday by the Urban League of Long Island.

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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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04/26/2017

... and autonomous technology such as driverless cars, global governance of technology that can engineer climate change, ...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

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05/05/2017

As House Republicans savor their major victory Thursday in narrowly passing their highly controversial and little-understood plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it’s instructive to consider some of the highly positive fiscal...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices

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07/10/2017

Casey found that ACS was performing well on a number of counts, particularly its data collection and utilization practices — an area where the report called ACS “a national model.”

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

Release Date:

07/20/2017

One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty. As a direct result of its Inclusive Finance efforts—led by Bob Annibale, global director...

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Trump’s Threats on Health Law Hide an Upside: Gains Made by Some Insurers

Release Date:

08/29/2017

Despite earlier indications that insurance companies would stop offering coverage under the law in large parts of the country, insurers have now agreed to sell policies everywhere.

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

Glenn E. Martin, formerly incarcerated, founded Just Leadership in 2014 to train ex-convicts to lead criminal justice reform in their own communities.

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For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year

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09/07/2017

Jaime Ballesteros tried to contain his tears on Tuesday while teaching Brooklyn sixth graders about liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes at a charter school in East New York, he broke down at his desk.

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