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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

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07/10/2015

... and in far too many cities across the country they are more likely to be suspended from school or become involved ... For example, Census data reveals that white women make more than African-American and...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... for example, increased from near zero in 2010 to more than $100 million in 2014 – more than three times the amount spent by the National ...

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... The Rockefeller Foundation, with an endowment of more than $3 billion, is focusing on the theme of resilience, ... the hope that its grants will make cities and communities more sustainable. And the John D...

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

... April 2012 have continued to choose the healthier options more than two years later. In a previous study published ... menu. The team then followed up to measure outcomes more than one and two years later. The...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

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11/20/2015

... fear for their children’s safety. The poverty is more evident a few blocks away, where families are crowded ... neighborhoods, defined as areas where 40 percent or more of residents live below the federal...

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Children, Youth and Families

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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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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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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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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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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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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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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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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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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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The New York Community Trust

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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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