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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 Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

Release Date:

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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RFPs Etc

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia More than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed ... (CEP). But there is bad news, too, and some may find it more surprising. A much smaller proportion—just...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

Release Date:

12/20/2016

... Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than the conversation that actual workers ... review between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, studying more than 540,000 news media and...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... Hospital . “It’s very tough losing a little more sight every year,” says Mr. Jonas, a retired retail ... and Donald Jonas Family Fund was created in 2005 with more than $44 million raised through a Christie’s...

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

Release Date:

02/01/2017

... to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros. Toward the end of ...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

Release Date:

03/21/2017

... Andrew Cuomo saying they and other top earners should pay more to support schools, roads, bridges and programs to help ...

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Daphne Foundation

Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich

Release Date:

03/31/2017

... and flowers in Queens. “No individual has contributed more to the commercial and civic life of New York City over a ...

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

Release Date:

04/17/2017

... the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced ... Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open...

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

Release Date:

05/01/2017

... tech jobs. What are the motivations of "tech leavers"? More than anything else, survey respondents cited unfair ... with women of all backgrounds experiencing significantly more unfairness than men...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

... assets would, then making the grants sooner generates more social value than preserving the capital and making more grants later — but how would we know, asks a report ...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs

Release Date:

05/05/2017

... South Bronx. As growing industries in the city require a more skilled workforce, this initiative will establish an ... rate in the Bronx is below six percent for the first time, more than four in 10 South...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

Release Date:

05/12/2017

... out-of-pocket costs by income and health status. More than one-fourth of all Medicare beneficiaries—15 million people—spend 20 percent or more of their incomes on premiums plus medical care, ...

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

Release Date:

05/15/2017

... its most ambitious yet, the Flatiron Institute. What’s more , Jim and Marilyn Simons also decided they wanted that same roof to be their own. More specifically, the foundation made a significant ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Report Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education

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05/26/2017

... f inds. Based on a survey of and interviews with more than six hundred and fifty African-American religious, ... grade level and dropping out of school, respondents urged more funding for public education,...

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Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

Release Date:

06/08/2017

... was little support for other reasons, including "With more women leaders, workplace policies are likely to become more employee-friendly" (1 percent) and "Women leaders are .....

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Tisch Fund, NY Community Trust, Bloomberg & United Way of NYC Leaders Named Among the Most Powerful Women of 2017

Release Date:

06/26/2017

... of the city’s most powerful businesswomen, we chose a more nuanced approach. Rather than measuring just Twitter ... For starters, our editors whittled down the list to more than 100 contenders whom we...