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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... Force has a long waiting list of families who want spots in its community garden, but more of those aspiring ... was a food desert before Superstorm Sandy hit New York in 2012, and after the storm, access to...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... enemy to distract citizens." The Open Society Foundations, in a note posted on Soros's personal website, responded to a ... of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Hungarian voters in October which alleged...

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

... President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach” In an interview with the Funder’s Forum, Wallace Foundation ... fits into this. Wallace’s approach is grounded in the notion of “working in...

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Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

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09/30/2019

... Supporting Rees’ groundbreaking work on the ways in which contemporary technology is challenging and changing what it means to be human, Rees’ duties will be to help the ...

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Ford Foundation appoints Catherine Chinedum Aniagolu-Okoye as regional director for West Africa

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10/07/2021

... West Africa. Aniagolu-Okoye began the Lagos-based role in September. Aniagolu-Okoye succeeds the late Innocent ... 2013 to 2021 and helped the foundation to build its brand in the region and to establish solid...

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Simplifying the Excise Tax on Private Foundations

... neutral, but according to the Joint Committee on Taxation in the 112th Congress would slightly raise tax revenues by ... tax on private foundations because: The current two-tier system serves as a disincentive...

Foundations Invest Nearly $2 Million to Improve New York City Schools

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09/10/2014

... William T. Grant Foundation—has joined forces to invest in the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New ... over the next three years. Since its founding in 2008 at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture...

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Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

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03/03/2015

... Men of Color have collectively awarded millions of dollars in the past year to improve education outcomes, reduce ... These policy and programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Eighteen Cultural Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

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05/07/2015

... Brooklyn Public Library; Queens Library; and Studio in a School. "New York City, one of the cultural capitals ... of the United States, has the largest public school system in the nation...

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UHF Medicaid Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment

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05/06/2016

... Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment Medicaid in New York: Progressing to Value-Based Payment Thursday, ... which will focus on efforts to move to value-based payment in New York. Jason Helgerson, New...

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... with efforts that will springboard communities forward in this moment of both crisis and opportunity. This means that people must engage in strategies that are adaptive and that aim for transformation rather...

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NYSHealth Selects Seven Hospitals to Receive Grant Funds to Implement OpenNotes

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10/12/2017

... information, they become equal partners with providers in managing their own care and are better able to develop ... with their health care team--all of which results in improved patient care and experience...

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

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10/19/2017

... are free, until they aren’t: Patrons who rack up $15 in late fees at the city’s public libraries are blocked ... as she stood amid the stacks at Countee Cullen Library in Harlem, one of the neighborhoods with...

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Freedom Together Foundation

Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

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11/01/2017

Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: ... Support for Black Men and Boys U.S. foundation funding in support of programs and...

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United Way of New York City Names Gina Goodenow as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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08/15/2018

... organization's first female to take on this role in its 80-year history. Gina joined United Way of New York City in 2016 as the Vice President and Controller of Finance. As ... of financial knowledge and...

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: “14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress”

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11/07/2018

... income and wealth inequality, to rising racial segregation in our school system , to the tens of millions of Americans who still lack ... over a dozen decisive actions Congress should take in...

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Zegar Family Foundation Supported Research Uncovers Genome-Wide Responses That Limit Crop Growth

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03/26/2019

... of water and nutrients. Its findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, potentially point to ways to engineer crops in soils around the world that are currently too dry or lack the nutrients...

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United Hospital Fund First Annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care Honors 57 Quality Improvement Leaders at 51 New York Area Institutions

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05/03/2019

United Hospital Fund First Annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care Honors 57 Quality Improvement Leaders at 51 ... region at its new annual event, Tribute to Excellence in Health Care, recognizing their...

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New Survey from Commonwealth Fund: Just Over a Quarter of U.S. Adults Favor ‘Medicare for All,’ but Many Need More Information

Release Date:

09/26/2019

... health insurance and instituting a “Medicare for All” system , but 40 percent say they need more information to form ... a Commonwealth Fund survey out today. The Health Insurance in America Survey, fielded...