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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s health-care system. The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation will announce ...

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Bill de Blasio’s Mayor’s Fund Raises $120K for Two Murdered NYPD Officers

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12/29/2014

... Fund Raises $120K for Two Murdered NYPD Officers A couple of days after police officers literally turned their ... announced this morning that the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City has raised $120,000 for...

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people directly ... we've launched the Healthier World Innovation Challenge, a new $4.5...

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Tow Foundation President Emily Tow Jackson Supports Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age

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01/20/2015

... Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age New York state should raise the age that youths can be tried and convicted as adults to 18, a commission appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommended Monday...

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Justice Reform

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... Applicants The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to...

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Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions

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03/04/2015

Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions In a major study to be undertaken this summer, the de Blasio ... the diversity of the boards, staffs and audiences of...

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Arts

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WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

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03/04/2015

... Geffen has won naming rights for one of the premier venues in classical music with a $100 million gift toward the renovation of Avery Fisher ... for the Performing Arts. The concert hall, home to the ...

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McCray, Glen and Citi Launch Initiative to Support Women Entrepreneurs

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03/13/2015

... and Citi will today announce WE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs New York City), an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship in New York City, with a special focus on...

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Food Systems

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Helmsley Trust Awards $8.7 Million for T1D Research Program

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03/30/2015

... Million for T1D Research Program Unitio has announced a three-year, $8.7 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry ... programs designed to improve clinical care and translate new therapeutics; and cultivate...

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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for Libraries

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04/06/2015

... Foundation President Makes the Case for Libraries With a presence in every neighborhood of every borough, New York City’s 207 branch libraries are among our most ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project

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04/16/2015

... Foundation on Wednesday pledged $75 million as part of its new initiative to use renewable energy based mini-grids not just to light up 1,000 villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but also create new...

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Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science

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04/22/2015

Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science Scholars studying dying ... the first recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a new award intended to support...

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Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

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04/27/2015

... America's Promise Alliance have announced the launch of a $3 million fund in support of innovative, scalable programs that prepare low-income youth for today's workforce. A ...

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Leadership Changes Announced at Gap Foundation and Gap, Inc.

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05/15/2015

... Inc. Bobbi Silten has been promoted and has taken on a new role. She is now Executive Vice President, Gap Inc. ... trustee for the past six years (and will continue to serve in this role),...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York Foundations that decided to pool their resources ... But for the residents of the Port Morris neighborhood in the South...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers

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06/08/2015

... Fund (B2B Fund) that will aid nonprofit developers in their predevelopment and project planning efforts to build ... The company has selected six nonprofits—three in New York City and three...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... cohort of its Incubator Project– one of several new programs within the Foundation’s Brooklyn Accelerator, which launched earlier this year as a capacity-building hub for local, emerging non profits. ... to...

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban An upstate New York energy company has filed an application to drill a natural-gas well using a waterless method that will test the state’s fracking ban...

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Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty

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08/12/2015

... isolating and concentrated. It extends out the door of a family's home and occupies the entire neighborhood around ... the schools, the grocery stores. A poor black family, in short, is...

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