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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... Across the City and Nation Forty-five nonprofits in New York City and beyond just got great news: The New York ... city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising...

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... The New York Community Trust is committed to investing in underserved communities and equity, and mostly follows ... found. The Trust is the third-largest community foundation in the U.S. The foundation's...

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... legacy preference, alumni have still continued to donate in large numbers. For example, Texas A&M, which did away with legacy preferences in 2004, saw its fundraising levels skyrocket in...

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United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices

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03/02/2017

... Health Care into Primary Care Practices Montefiore Health System and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein ... that they hope will lead to primary care physicians in small practices better support for...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard

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03/16/2017

... including Pennsylvania, to rank 22nd this year overall in the organization's 2017 Scorecard on State Health System Performance... Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many .....

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... to expand access to middle-skill jobs for young people in the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 ... effort will connect career and technical education schools in the South Bronx to New...

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The New York Community Trust

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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training

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06/13/2017

... waterways, electrical grid, and air traffic control system . His plan to modernize America’s infrastructure will ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’ In previous papers, University of Pennsylvania physicists ... stain of particles left after drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo...

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Science

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as...

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NY State Health Foundation Report: FQHC Utilization of State & Federal Loan & Scholarship Programs to Support Clinician Recruitment

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... status or income. Operating at more than 650 service sites in New York State, FQHCs are a critical safety-net system of care for some of the State’s most vulnerable ... the relevant State and federal programs...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week ... will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to ... of...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... past-due lunch balances that their parents have not paid. ( In one notable example last year, an Alabama student was ... “universal lunch” approach for creating a system that will go beyond lunch balances to...

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Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

Over the past year, the Skoll, Draper Richards Kaplan, Ford, and Porticus Foundations, working with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, have partnered to investigate how to more effectively apply their resources toward large societal problems like...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

... $1 billion Big U proposal calls for a 10-mile protective system around the low-lying Manhattan, from west 57th Street ...

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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

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01/17/2018

The reports provide a roadmap to improve the systems that help New Yorkers eat well throughout their lives.

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New York Health Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

... Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria In separate studies, researchers test bacteria that ... 400,000 people each year, mostly children age 5 and under in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is spread...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students

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05/03/2018

... Pathways, a partnership between the K-12 education system and various public and private partners, offers high ... generous grant will help Delaware continue its focus on in -demand occupations and where there...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grants $3.5M to South Arts to Launch "Jazz Road"

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12/10/2018

... foundation’s Arts Program is funding South Arts, based in Atlanta, Ga., to launch Jazz Road, a national program ... will be the nation’s most extensive jazz touring support system . Through Jazz Road, all six...

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Joel Wallman Named Director of Research at Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

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02/20/2019

... The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG), a leader in understanding violence, has named Joel Wallman Director of Research. In this role, Dr. Wallman will guide the Foundation’s ... in...

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