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Giving Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System

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11/26/2014

Giving Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System Those of us ... how broken our health system is (and when they rib me for not doing enough to fix it), here are three things I'll tell them we should...

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Helen Chin Named New Director of Sustainable Environments Program at Surdna

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12/22/2014

... Ms. Chin will provide creative and strategic leadership for a grantmaking program that is focused around four ... effort which resulted in a refined thematic approach for each of the foundation’s three program...

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... Sandy confirmed to her that “it was the most important work we could do”. Hence, the emphasis on the ... as ours,” she writes, “we have no choice: we must all work to build greater resilience.”... Rockefeller...

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Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License

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02/04/2015

... today that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research to promote greater ... from its funding, the foundation hopes to make its work and the work of...

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F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding In philanthropy today, we are doing some good “architectural” work in emergent philanthropy, networks, and collective ... F...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Give Cash a Chance

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02/24/2015

... a conference entitled Child Poverty Solutions That Can Work . One of the more promising solutions discussed was cash ... allowances—simply giving cash to parents. The Case for Cash The truth is, children are...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

... dance, theatre and jazz. Ben Cameron, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said, ... Duke Artists. This year's class is particularly notable for their collective, strong...

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Long Island Community Foundation Supports Treatment for Military Veterans and Their Families

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05/19/2015

Long Island Community Foundation Supports Treatment for Military Veterans and Their Families Given the ... Due to the challenge of engaging veterans, LICADD will work to increase awareness of the M-FIT program to...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Fights Climate Change By Backing New Resource Center

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06/10/2015

... Conservation in a Changing Climate is a technical resource for land trusts and their supporters. The resource center ... better understand the fundamentals of climate change, plan for climate change in land...

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, today released the ... and that our neighbors will know, see and respect us for who we are" said Kevin...

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... All said and done there is quite a case to be made for clean energy access. But outside the admirable efforts of ... or the newly announced super efficient appliances work supported by Climate Works this issue...

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To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures

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08/10/2015

... Americans Seek Dentures Some areas that top the nation for unemployment also fare worst in a health measure that can ...

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

... new Director of Programs. “Cecilia has worked for the Foundation for the past 15 years and has excelled in every way. She ... Andrea Reynolds. In her new role, Ms. Stancell will work with the...

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Into the Public Policy Deep End

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08/18/2015

... This piece was originally published as the feature article for the August 2015 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. August is no vacation for our new Public Policy Fellow Stephanie Chrispin...

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Rebuild By Design Joins Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities Initiative

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10/01/2015

The partnership will bring resilience, best practices and solutions to cities around the world.

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Environment and Climate Change

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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... giving. The is part of the Council on Foundations' work to revive the Philanthropy Caucuses in the House and ... from the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors whose work is supported directly by these...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... and just plain more interesting and exciting for students. . . The Carnegie Corporation of New York has ... time, money, people, and technology, and through catalytic work across the education sector to...

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... more than $1 billion in grants to nonprofits doing vital work —from educating preschoolers to caring for the elderly. But I’ve come to understand that good ... reached record highs, graduating teens are ill-...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

New York should draw on approaches that help address homelessness--supportive housing, which offers job training, debt counseling, mental health care, and other crucial services to residents--to stop the revolving door of homelessness.

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