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Capital One Seeks Innovative Programs to Increase Digital Proficiency

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10/06/2014

... As our world rapidly changes with the introduction of new technological solutions communities, nonprofit ... access to, grounding in, or funding to leverage this new “digital” world, community-based...

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Workforce Development

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Capital One Foundation

Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice

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10/09/2014

... announced Oct. 8 receipt of a $104,400 grant to support a new initiative promoting LGBT inclusion and racial justice ... that promote LGBT equality around the world, will fund the new “Congregational...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Century Foundation Announces Janice Nittoli "Forward Thinking" Award

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11/03/2014

... doubling the foundation’s endowment and adding sixteen new policy experts to TCF’s roster. Under her watch, TCF ... led to a change in U.S. policy in Afghanistan, and major new work on community colleges, on...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... and will enroll students this fall for the first time. The new program will go beyond the traditional culinary classes ... elsewhere. Hostos’s program is intended to train a new generation of professionals in...

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Food Systems

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Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners

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03/12/2015

The de Blasio administration and Citi are launching a new program to expand the number of women entrepreneurs with ... Services (SBS) will provide free training directly to new entrepreneurs. The city is also...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Develops Action Plan to Save Great Apes in Africa

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04/08/2015

... Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, and partners in a new conservation plan. A new report--titled "Regional Action Plan for the Conservation .....

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Animal Welfare

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Citi Releases 2014 Global Citizenship Report

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06/11/2015

... and philanthropic efforts, as well as partnerships and new approaches to address pressing needs. “Given ... be underestimated. Access to financing, innovation and new partnerships are needed now more than ever...

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Community Development

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Survey Shows Afterschool Participation Grows but Unmet Demand Nears 20 Million Children

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07/07/2015

... Nears 20 Million Children “America After 3 PM,” a new survey commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, finds ... Unmet demand has increased, as well. The parents of 19. 4 million children not in afterschool...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Resident-Led Grantmaking Program in Crown Heights

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08/03/2015

... Insights, which surveyed over 1,000 people. As part of its new core program strategy focused on Youth, Neighborhoods, ... Brooklyn’s under-served neighborhoods, starting in its new home of Crown Heights and...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bank of America Foundation President Seeks to Increase Youth Development Opportunities

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08/19/2015

... to education to the environment. In fact, according to new data, young people are giving more at a younger age than ... seeing that this generation of young people is exploring new ways to make a difference...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs

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10/14/2015

... requirements of their health care are too much to handle, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research ... must be aware that when they ask older adults to take a new medication or suggest they...

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Aging

The John A. Hartford Foundation

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

... restaurants might seem like a pipe dream. But according to new research published today in the November issue of Health ... to measure outcomes more than one and two years later. The new research shows that...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Tufts University

Tech Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study

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11/13/2015

... on family leave policies: the technology sector. In a new report on paid family leave in the tech industry, TCF ... companies like Netflix, Google, and Facebook are setting new standards for family-forward...

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Gender Justice

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The Century Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, MetLife, Bank of America Partner to Provide $30M Social Impact Loan Fund

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11/17/2015

... Capital (V-Cap), a social impact lender, today announced a new $30 million fund to support better integrated care for ... and Bank of America -- have banded together to make this new source of capital...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Crotona Park East and Morrisania Have City's Highest Rate of Jailed Residents, Data2Go.NYC Shows (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/20/2016

... incarcerated residents, according to an analysis of jailed New Yorkers’ last known addresses by DATA2GO.NYC, a new free mapping and data site. On average, 371 of every ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Justice Reform

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Study: Metabolism Protein Found to Also Regulate Feeding Behavior in the Brain (JPB Foundation)

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02/26/2016

... are not yet fully understood by scientists. However, new research from The Rockefeller University reveals an important new component of the system responsible for regulating food ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Protein Structure That Shows How Viruses Take Over Cells

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02/29/2016

... but also for improving gene therapy methods to deliver new DNA to patients with genetic mutations. “The ... Dmitry Lyumkis, a Salk Fellow and co-senior author of the new paper, published in Nature on February...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... flooding could damage more than homes and roads. A new study from Sandia National Laboratories assesses how much ... Robert Jeffers said. The city and region are now taking new approaches to handle the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy

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05/11/2016

... Bernie Sanders is leading the charge and would create a new top income tax rate of 54.2 percent, up from the current ... effective rate of at least 30 percent, and she’d add a new 4 percent...

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