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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller ... the first round of grant recipients in the areas of criminal justice reform and the arts...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... have discovered critical details of how a cell's response system tells the difference between these two perpetual threats. The discovery could help in the development of new cancer-selective viral...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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10/1/2015 - Facts on Fraud and Embezzlement - PPT Presentation

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10/2015

View materials from the program, The Facts on Fraud and Embezzlement.

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

... a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online in December in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Giving While Living

Publication date:

09/2017

... improvements in our communities and in our world—whether we are individual donors, foundations, nonprofits or ... of our resources. It requires us to ask questions like: What are our best opportunities to make a difference? What impact can we have and how do we know what impact our grants are having? What are ...

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Report

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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11 Apr 2013

Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees

Thursday, April 11, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

Experienced grantmakers often use two financial documents to review potential and current ... grantees: financial statements and IRS Form 990. But how do the two documents differ and how can they best be used .....

Best Practices in Disaster Grantmaking: Lessons from the Gulf Coast

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04/2008

Natural disasters in recent years, including Hurricane Sandy in the New York region and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast, have resulted in an outpouring of philanthropic support to people in the ...

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Disaster Relief

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The New HR Challenge - Managing Misclassification Risks

Publication date:

10/2010

... to raise revenue by collecting unpaid taxes and fines. What is misclassification? • Exempt vs. non-exempt ... as well, sometimes with criminal charges. Recommendation: use the “smell test” (if it looks like a duck, acts ... a fellow, intern, etc minimum wage plus benefits if they do not meet the six criteria as defined in the DOL’s Fact ...

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Seven Things Foundations Can Do to Shape Public Debate in the NYC Election Season

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02/21/2012

... upcoming New York City campaign season is the first one in more than a decade—and only the second since ... current Public Advocate and City Comptroller. As a result, we can expect a particularly lively season...

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A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy

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12/2015

... Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy” touches upon key issues to help us ... fit in a broader democracy reform agenda? How do we authentically connect with communities of color to ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Discovers Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment

Release Date:

10/30/2017

... Smart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment CHAPEL HILL, NC - Treating type 1 diabetes and some ... of North Carolina and NC State have now developed what could be a much more patient-...

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As New York City Prepares to Close More Struggling ‘Renewal’ Schools, Here’s What We Know About Ones They’ve Shuttered Before

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12/14/2017

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09 Aug 2017

What is Climate's Impact on Migration? A Look Beyond the Headlines - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:15pm

... seen across headlines. Less clear is how, why, and to what extent the impacts of climate change actually drive ... and traditional drivers of migration and displacement. In all corners of the world,...

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Immigration

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08 Dec 2014

New OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs: What It Does and Why It Matters - Webinar

Monday, December 8, 2014 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... Members: Please click on the "Register Now" link above. In partnership with New OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs: What It Does and Why It Matters - Webinar .....

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Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... identify myself as a person who has had problems with drug use . I come from a community not too different from Staten ... context and craft a solution, it is important to recognize what happened during those...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use , the grant will support implementation of the Global ... both components of...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Darren Walker: Using Privilege to Fight Privilege

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08/31/2016

... to Fight Privilege Say the name Darren Walker anywhere in New York City or in the world of philanthropy, and you’re guaranteed to get ... named as one of its “100 Most Influential People in...

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Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform

Release Date:

03/18/2016

... Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform Former chief judge Jonathan Lippman ... the members of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and...

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Justice Reform

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We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change

Release Date:

09/23/2014

We 're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change Across the ... change. It seems we might even be at a tipping point in the global battle against climate change. After all, ... truly serious...

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Environment and Climate Change

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