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Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... Council and the underrepresentation of women in local and state governments nationwide. They are correct in their ... large city governments are comprised of women; at the state level, women also make up about...

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Gender Justice

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

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... Public Hospital Funding Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset ... funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature might be...

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Health

William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

Release Date:

10/26/2017

... “There may be different approaches taken within the same state , within the same school district and even within the ...

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

Release Date:

01/12/2018

... effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that ... residents are in the room and able to comment when the state authorizing body is considering...

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NYS Health Foundation and The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Release New Reports on Strengthening Nutrition Education for New Yorkers

Release Date:

01/17/2018

... very little research has been done on how New York State and New York City currently support, implement, and ... that currently support nutrition education at the City and State levels. Both the City report...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

Release Date:

12/05/2018

... 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest multi- state health care union local in the United States, where she ... She served on the faculty of the University at Albany ( State University of New...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Ariel Zwang to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/17/2021

... title of “2nd most powerful nonprofit leader in New York State ” on City and State ’s Annual Power List. Revson Foundation President ...

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

Release Date:

03/15/2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Simons Foundation profiled in New York Times article on billionaires privatizing American science research.

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations Invest $24 Million in Secondary Education

Release Date:

05/06/2014

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations invest $24 million in international secondary education, reports Triple Pundit.

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Education

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

Release Date:

06/23/2014

The New York Public Library has won $500,000 for an internet access project from the Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

Release Date:

07/02/2014

... "These conversations are the groundwork for a new, innovative approach to supporting community-led solutions." .....

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

Release Date:

09/24/2014

Report published by Open Society Foundations looks at media innovations over the last decade.

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Communications/Media

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MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa

Release Date:

11/07/2014

The program will help improve productivity for 730,000 farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.

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Food Systems

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

Release Date:

11/17/2014

The fund is backed by Open Society Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, among others.