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Astor Estate Donates Money to New York Education

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12/08/2013

... a first round of charitable donations has been made from a fund created with the assets from her estate, representing ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Opportunity International and The MasterCard Foundation Plan To Help 7M Out of Poverty With $22.7M Partnership

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03/25/2014

Opportunity International andThe MasterCard Foundation plan to help 7 million out of poverty with $22.7 million partnership, reports Forbes.

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Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors

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05/06/2014

A New York Times article discusses research on donor disclosures by Transparify, a survey funded by the Open Society Foundations.

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, Sigma Theta Tau International Partner on New Global Health Initiatives

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05/29/2014

... honor society, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), to co- fund doctoral nursing students and establish new educational ... honor society, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), to co- fund doctoral nursing...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Health

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund , was family physician in Falmouth, Me., and before that ...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Iran and the U.S. and its allies than the Ploughshares Fund , which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund . In March, RBF gave Ploughshares a one-year...

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Weinberg Foundation To Make $700,000 in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits in Israel

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07/29/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced today it will donate $700,000 to support many of its active grantees that have provided crucial social services to those affected by rocket attacks on cities in Israel.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Donors Education Collaborative Awards $995,000 For Education Reform

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08/04/2014

... Reform The Donors’ Education Collaborative, a fund at The New York Community Trust established to improve ... opportunity for all students. Current members to the fund include the Catherine and Joseph Aresty...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Financing the Social Sector

Release Date:

09/15/2014

The American Express Corporate social Responsibility Blog explores the top 10 things foundations and corporations should do when considering whether to support nonprofit organizations.

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PNY Members Among Top Ten Funders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work

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09/18/2014

Ford, Open Society and Arcus are among the top funders for LGBTQ education and safe school works.

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LGBTQ

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... Clement McKinley, Vice President of Nonprofit Finance Fund . "Continued artistic excellence is best served by a .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have set up a $4 million fund to help poor countries resist pressure from big tobacco ... sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere. The fund , to be backed by Bloomberg...

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Health

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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for Libraries

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04/06/2015

Julie Sandorf takes de Blasio to task in a NY Daily News editorial for reducing library funding in his preliminary operating budget.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Public Policy

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

Release Date:

04/30/2015

The report was released by the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Children, Youth and Families

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

Goldman Sachs lent $7.2 million to New York City and Bloomberg Philanthropies guaranteed $6 million.

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Justice Reform

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Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List

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01/08/2016

Restrictions against the Ford Foundation placed by the Indian Government are being lifted after the foundation registered itself under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA.)

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

Release Date:

03/30/2016

According to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner, our current unemployment insurance system is facing a funding crisis that has made the safety net weaker than any time in its history.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/22/2016

The program provides funding to physician-scientists who are one to five years into their first faculty appointment to support their transitions to independent research careers.

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