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20 Jun 2017

Charter and District Schools Sharing Innovations: How Philanthropy Can Help

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... school culture. Philanthropy New York’s Education Working Group , in collaboration with The Philanthropy Roundtable , ... with any questions. Co-Sponsored by Education Working Group...

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Education

Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

Release Date:

08/22/2017

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation has been implementing The Whitman Institute’s Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and receiving great reviews.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Sustainable Business Model Innovation

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of companies have changed their ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty eradication who contributed to a recent ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

Release Date:

09/26/2017

As the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting genetic material, they've quietly amassed a giant database of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it.

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Justice Reform

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Mellon Foundation

New York Foundation’s Latest Installment of Video Series “In Their Own Words” Features Founder and Executive Director of Young Advocates for Fair Education

Release Date:

02/09/2018

... for Fair Education (YAFFED) YAFFED is an advocacy group committed to improving educational curricula within ...

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Video

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Education

Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

Release Date:

03/25/2021

... each other,” McHarris says. There is also no comparable group looking at connecting this kind of work across the ... she says. With the Ford Foundation funding as a start, the group intends to raise US$100...

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

What's Keeping Bloomberg Busy These Days

Release Date:

07/03/2014

... Associates—the urbanist, nonprofit consulting sister group that’s now advising Mexico City and London while ... his climate initiative C40; his partnerships on public health , immigration, coal, oceans, and...

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Environment and Climate Change

Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

Release Date:

03/16/2015

... But the ruinous series of decisions that wrecked FEGS—a health and human services nonprofit that has long been one of ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

Release Date:

04/29/2015

... Winning project concepts focus on subjects such as public health , education, cross-cultural exchanges to spur ... in New York, Michael R. Bloomberg was joined by a renowned group of individuals who are well...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... with affordable housing, youth employment and mental health . “We may not agree on individual issues but ... He’s co-chairman of the Partnership for New York City, a group that finds corporate partners for city...

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Economic Security

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Morgan Stanley

New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... Basic Research and leader of the Eye Cancer Site Disease Group at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the ... The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health , the National Cancer Institute,...

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Health

Science

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Research to Prevent Blindness

With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence

Release Date:

06/17/2016

... In collaboration with New York’s Music-Theatre Group , Opera Philadelphia is proud to announce that Rene Orth ... its individualized plan of study with a living stipend and health benefits... With Support from...

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Arts

Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

Release Date:

04/25/2017

... economy would be much stronger if barriers in education, health and housing that adversely affect black residents are ...

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Public Policy

Social Justice

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Long Island Community Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... other countries and are more likely to go without needed health care because of costs. Why should this be? For one ... Americans are more likely to enter the 65-and-up age group with chronic diseases — heart...

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Member News

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Aging

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Newman's Own Foundation Forms Native American Nutrition Cohort

Release Date:

05/08/2018

... access to fresh and healthy food options leads to health -related problems, and up to 50 percent of Native AIAN ... they turn 10, the highest prevalence of any racial/ethnic group ... Newman's Own...

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Food Systems

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Newman's Own Foundation

Don’t Say “When Did You Stop Caring About Children?” and Other Guidance for Child Advocates

Release Date:

09/23/2010

... foundations that are engaged in social change and public policy reform. Mr. Gould is the firm’s senior strategist ...

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Insights

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All Funders

Judy Belk Appointed President and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation

Release Date:

03/12/2014

... played a historic role in courageously funding in public health areas that had drawn little or no philanthropic ... the process, the Foundation has expanded the definition of health and wellness for all...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Surdna Foundation

Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup Pushes Census Turnout

Release Date:

05/09/2018

... the federal government from getting an accurate count. Group Effort Anticipating these difficulties, Bauman joined ... of New York, to draw up a census game plan. The group , called the Democracy Funders...