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Deutsche Bank Gives USD 1 Million to Address Homelessness in New York City

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12/04/2015

... to address homelessness in the five boroughs. More than 57,000 people were sleeping in New York City shelters nightly in October 2015, with more than 40% of them children, according to the Department ...

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... York’s leading charitable foundations, I’ve overseen more than $1 billion in grants to nonprofits doing vital ... well-targeted grants make a huge difference. It’s even more effective when a foundation like...

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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

... a variation on a catastrophe bond, could help cities deal more effectively with climate change-related disasters, ... the size of catastrophe-related losses. . . Also, more on these bonds Wall Street Journal...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... which has already taken on challenges like making cities more “resilient” to the challenges of the 21st century, ... amount of wasted food, the foundation believes, could feed more than 1.5 billion people...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

... island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be “ more appropriate.” “You could design a facility that ...

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Justice Reform

Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers

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03/04/2016

... retain them, banks increased their compensation, gave them more time off and even did away with some of their more menial work. But some millennials have still been ...

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Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... 1, those with high levels of the biomarker PRAME mRNA were more likely to metastasize than those with low levels of ... indicating that patients with this biomarker be monitored more closely for metastatic...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely to participate in ACOs than other hospitals. ... care organizations (ACOs) over the past decade. Although more than half of ACO provider...

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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

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03/14/2016

... their pilot program, Field Trip New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting educational ... throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to award these grants...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers to strengthen the delivery of health care ... a critical gap as the population lives longer and needs more care...” New York Community...

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F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact

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06/10/2016

... most foundations is mirrored in society: poverty is made more searing by economic segregation and the isolation of ... we aspired. And we thought that approach should be applied more generally to foundation...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... around the country of environmentalists teaming up with more conservative-leaning property-rights advocates, but she’d like to see more ... Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose ...

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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

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07/07/2016

... will leverage the power of its membership, including more than 2,500 members in New York City and more than 38,000 members worldwide, to identify practical ...

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The New York Community Trust

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

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08/22/2016

... serve as a grim reminder: Less rental assistance will mean more homelessness. Fewer dollars spent on affordable housing will mean more spent on shelter. It was true in 2011, when Gov. Andrew ...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a ... as a foundation that was driven to invest in a better, more just world with people at the center...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... to submit the Letter of Intent is November 7, 2016 . For more details on the application process, including the full eligibility criteria, and for more details on the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research ...

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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

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09/28/2016

... at the place-based philanthropy conference Towards a More Resilient Place, co-hosted by The Aspen Institute Forum ... keep enduring under that mantle of oppression for years more , perhaps allowing further...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices

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10/17/2016

... and ethnicity, income level, and gender; (2) the fact that more students are borrowing more money to pay for college; and (3) the fact that those ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the brief, How High-Need ... States (20 pages, PDF), found that while 95 percent of the more than eighteen hundred high-...

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