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Rockefeller Foundation President Wants de Blasio to Make the City More Resilient

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02/12/2014

... Foundation, Judith Rodin, has some serious suggestions for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to make the city more resilient and ... another Superstorm Sandy. The Rockefeller Foundation named New...

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A Coalition to Move de Blasio Along on Bus Rapid Transit

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06/09/2014

... bus rapid transit system of at least 20 routes in New York City. Now there’s a coalition intent on making sure ... the Transport Workers Union, the Association for a Better New York...

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

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08/01/2014

... writes James R. Knickman President & CEO, New York State Health Foundation, in the Huffington Post. As the ... moves ahead "with an eye toward enrolling a million more New Yorkers, a...

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Citi Backs Program to Create 5,000 Women Entrepreneurs from Low-Income Neighborhoods

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03/16/2015

... That critical path from idea to success is where New York City is hoping to take 5,000 women from underserved ... communities in the next three years. Glen announced the new initiative, Women...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Works to Demystify NYC High School Admissions Process

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07/13/2015

... Admissions Process Applying to public high schools in New York City can be a daunting task, from the sheer number of ... number of resources have been developed, from websites to new apps, to...

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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

... True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave Years after New York lawyer Sherman Day established a charitable fund to help ... Would Mr. Day want to expand the mission to cover this new wave of...

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

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03/21/2016

... Way’s Women’s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it’s ... raised nearly $1 million in support of the United Way of New York...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

... Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to a new level and is being honored for her hard work. Dimple ...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... Museum announced on Monday that the city had contributed $ 4 .5 million towards restoring the Lightship Ambrose, which is ... from the Atlantic Ocean “into the broad mouth of lower New York...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York , the college-success program she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The...

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Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

... Populations Latinos, who make up nearly a third of the New York City population, tend to have better health outcomes ... This is the first look at the city’s roughly 2. 4 million Latino...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... advocacy effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that ... to spread OpenNotes adoption at hospitals throughout New ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... on the Cultural Edge Scheduled to open at Hudson Yards in New York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 ... last year. Earlier this month, came word of a new $45 million...

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Laurie M. Tisch: Perfecting the Art of Philanthropy

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12/13/2018

... While her family is known as long-standing patrons of New York City, the dynamic 67-year-old philanthropic leader has ... Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and neighborhoods throughout New...

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Rosanna Aybar Promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration at The William T. Grant Foundation

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09/06/2022

... abilities, which will help take the Foundation to new heights in the future,” said Foundation president Adam ... and member of the Executive Committee of Philanthropy New York .” Rosanna came...

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Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

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12/16/2014

... of these conversations-- nonprofit employees. The City of New York annually contracts out $5 billion in social services to ... for their families. The inadequate funding of City of New...

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Three Prominent Foundation Leaders Join Foundation Center Board of Trustees

Release Date:

04/20/2015

... at the Ford Foundation, began their terms of service at a meeting of the trustees on April 16, 2015. "Mr. Lewis, ... Mr. Lewis joined the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City as...

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For philanthropy, racial equity isn't enough: Why we've moved to redistribution to address the racial wealth gap

Release Date:

10/14/2021

... and close the racial wealth gaps in this country. As funders we have the opportunity both to redistribute our ... from Black Californians a century ago and advocating for new legislation to establish a...

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11 Sep 2014

Generational Transitions: The Never-Ending Story - Webinar

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2:30pm to 4:00pm

... likely have discovered that transitions are not a one-time event ; rather, they are an ongoing and evolving fact of life. ... National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) launched a new version of their...

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Silicon Alley: The Road to Tomorrow’s Workforce

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11/12/2013

... Philanthropy Fellow, Arts & Historic Preservation, The New York Community Trust and Graduate Student, MA Design Studies, Parsons The New School for Design Silicon Alley , our City’s tech...