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Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation

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07/20/2017

... of The New York Women’s Foundation for 24 years and we are thrilled to be showcased on their iconic billboards at ... approach to corporate philanthropy and finding dynamic ways to support and highlight...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

... in June. The performance actively engages its audience in ways that are delightful to audiences new to contemporary dance and ...

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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities

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08/17/2017

... employed by critics of green building projects that are expensive or seen as overly-formulaic. The idea: That ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when they’re not doing the job for which ... the organization was 50 percent more likely to part ways with the executive than others...

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Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017

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08/30/2017

... labor contracts. Looking ahead, city and state lawmakers are expressing optimism that they’ll be able to advance ...

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Workforce Development

Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law

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09/05/2017

For years, Republicans successfully battered Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act.

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... — and the ethnic, racial and sexual diversity — that are emblematic of cities. Established corporations and ... even engendered a new crisis of success, whose symptoms are runaway gentrification, soaring...

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Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System

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09/11/2017

... partisan efforts, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working together on something all sides can agree upon: ... is an obvious place to start. Nearly 22 million Americans are caught up in the volatility...

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, however, a neurological study ... generosity changed the activity in people’s brains in ways that increase feelings of...

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

... City’s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to make it easier, more efficient, and safer to get ... push to modernize airports and other transit hubs), there are a plethora of ideas out there...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way ...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... diseases (CVDs) such as heart disease and stroke are the number one cause of death worldwide. In 2015 alone, ... Outcomes for NCD sufferers in LIMCs, it should be noted, are considerably worse than the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

... recognized that while among their grantees there are “many organizations today…helping to solve seemingly ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

... including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people ... the Dreamers and defended the DACA program in various ways , especially in California,...

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Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

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09/28/2017

... their house files — even their lapsed donor files — are among the most valuable sources of names for their ... new selects is part of the ADA’s secret sauce, chances are it weighted the demographics of the...

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Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation

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10/04/2017

... a gut renovation of David Geffen Hall and seeking simpler ways to improve the lackluster theater. It was a major ...

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Arts

Cuomo Says Special Session Might Be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding

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10/04/2017

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset uncompensated care until it can determine an equitable way to distribute the money. Those funds include money that was expected to be distributed last year and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...

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