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For Foundations, Succession Planning Should Be a High Priority

Release Date:

03/31/2016

... Fund You are a Board member of a private foundation. Your President has been bringing up the possibility of ... go about replacing them? Rational thinking would say don’ t wait. You should already have a well-...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Modern Dance Groups to Get Hurricane Sandy Aid

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12/25/2012

... in early January checks from $1,000 to $5,000 will go out to companies, choreographers and theaters knocked back on ...

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Arts

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus

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03/05/2013

... growth has decelerated below rates needed to bring us out of this slump. But our current macroeconomic policy — ...

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Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

... turned against the Kremlin, there was one main way to find out about it — the Levada Center, a respected group of ...

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NYC losing small hospitals as money woes mount

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08/06/2013

... of city residents, the trip to have an appendix taken out or get treatment for a broken leg is increasingly being ...

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United Hospital Fund

B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City

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11/28/2013

... it seemed almost fusty. And then, after a listless going- out -of-business sale that began on the day after Thanksgiving ...

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Head of David Rockefeller Fund Aims to Help Small, Overlooked Nonprofits

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01/23/2015

... leader of the David Rockefeller Fund, Lukas Haynes won’ t be able to funnel vast amounts of cash to build ... family have done. His job, he says, is to seek out small nonprofits that have been overlooked and...

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Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties

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02/05/2015

... Society foundations, has formed a partnership to figure out how to get the Internet to live up to its potential as a ...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports Annual Primary Care Visits Will Only Rise by 3.8% from ACA

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02/25/2015

... only slightly. According to a Commonwealth Fund analysis out today, the number of annual primary care visits will rise ...

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'Embrace of the Serpent' Wins Sloan Foundation Prize at Sundance for Portrayal of Science

Release Date:

01/29/2016

... at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given out annually to the movie that best portrays science and ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Helmsley Trustee Becoming Known as ‘Israel’s Santa Claus

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... Helmsley Trust has donated over $200 million in grants ( out of overall assets of more than $5 billion) to projects ...

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Jewish Interests

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Report: NY Has The Second Highest Foreclosure Rate

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04/19/2016

... support local governments’ economic recovery.” One out of 21 home mortgages are in foreclosure, with Long Island ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Surdna Foundation Promotes Worker Co-Ops to Overcome Wealth Inequality

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04/20/2016

... future? That’s the question the Surdna Foundation set out to answer in a new report,"Ours to Share." .....

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Economic Security

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NYS Health Foundation Gives $100,000 to Healthy Neighborhoods Challenge

Release Date:

07/11/2016

... winners with up to $5,000 in matching funds to carry out their ideas... NYS Health Foundation Gives $100,000 to ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Scorecard Shows Health Care Has Vastly Improved, But Progress Remains Uneven

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07/14/2016

... the country, according to a Commonwealth Fund report out today. Those areas that improved did so largely because ...

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Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining

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08/01/2016

... paintings and other complex digital data and work things out automatically... Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to ...

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Science

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Examining the 990: An Informative Series on Completing the Form

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08/2016

... of the form, section-by-section, including how to fill it out , and why it’s so important. Organizations will get ...

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ASPCA Survey Finds Consumers Concerned About Farm Animal Welfare, but Confused by Food Labels

Release Date:

08/12/2016

... to read a children’s storybook. Gleaming red barns jut out of green rolling hills. Cartoon cows and chickens graze ...

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Food Systems

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MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems

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08/23/2016

... corporations doing good by way of big business are spread out across the globe. MasterCard Makes Fortune List of ...

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