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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Participants of 'Untraditional' Artist Residency Program

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04/17/2013

... reaching the public and developing individuals' interest in and access to the performing arts. The Doris Duke ... performing arts organizations and artists will receive a combined total of $1.475 million...

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

... Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to ... applications, demonstrating the growing demand for new ways to fund and scale effective...

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RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems

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05/29/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative is a two-year effort to help municipalities rethink the way they design, plan, implement and finance infrastructure. In the aftermath of the devastation wrought by...

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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities

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08/05/2013

... of Exemplary Mentoring for minority graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) ... University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEMs). The new type of partnership, initiated...

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79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk

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07/30/2013

A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ... by the Rockefeller Foundation) also found that about 1 in 4 Americans believe they live in an area extremely at risk ... natural...

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28 Jun 2012

Foundation Executive Assistants Network Meeting

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -

12:15pm to 2:00pm

Philanthropy New York is hosting an introductory meeting for Foundation Executive Assistants. Strong demand for a professional networking group for EAs (and those in similar roles) led to this...

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Hartford Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $6 Million to Improve Geriatric Care

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09/19/2013

The three grants from the John A . Hartford Foundation include an award of more than $5 ... which augments an award from The Atlantic Philanthropies. In support of the John A . Hartford Foundation’...

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Bloomberg Spins Off Group That Spurs Volunteerism in Cities

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01/30/2014

... will turn its Cities of Service program into a stand-alone nonprofit that will help mayors across the U.S. ... group, Cities of Service, will be led by one of the former New York City mayor’s government...

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Passes Halfway Mark to Prepare 1,000 Faculty and Clinical Leaders by 2020

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02/05/2014

... its goal of underwriting 1,000 doctoral scholars by 2020. NEW YORK, February 5, 2014 – The Jonas Center for Nursing ... funder of graduate nursing education, today announced a significant milestone: it has...

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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

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03/10/2014

... The $60 million foundation, which focuses its grant-making in Brooklyn, was intended to grow in influence and size when ... from the private Independence Community Foundation into a full-...

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A Nonprofit Lender Revives the Hopes of Subprime Borrowers

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02/25/2014

... Assistance Corporation of America has received $10 billion in funding from Bank of America to make mortgage loans on its own terms over the next decade, reports The New York Times. WASHINGTON — About 200...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

The John A . Hartford Foundation is seeking feedback on their Change ... the then-Senior Program Officers a giant cup filled with new red pens. It seemed to me at the time that the program .....

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

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03/15/2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Simons Foundation profiled in New York Times article on billionaires privatizing American ... White House. Joking that his grades in physics made him a...

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Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

... is Venture Philanthropy? Rockefeller Foundation explains in Nonprofit Quarterly. Venture philanthropy. Angel ... that go far beyond the writing of checks and often take a deep and long-term view of what it...

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The Citi Foundation Launches Pathways to Progress to Improve Career Readiness for 100,000 Youth

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03/31/2014

... to Progress to improve career Readiness for 100,000 youth. New York – The Citi Foundation today announced Pathways to Progress, a three-year $50 million initiative to unlock economic opportunity for 100,000...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

F.B. Heron Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation discussed in Forbes article on impact investing. I’ve been privileged ... with my husband, Steve, in 1997. Having had the benefit of a perspective...

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

[Rockefeller Foundation] Study Predicts Building in East River Could Pay for Itself and Then Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a new neighborhood...

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NYC Council members rip Walmart’s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’

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06/04/2014

... than half the members of the City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to local groups here. Last ... last year to charities here,...

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... on their own grew an average of 10 percent or more a year during the three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Presents Third Installment of 'Stories of Brooklyn Insights'

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06/04/2014

... Third Installment of ‘Stories of Brooklyn Insights’ In the third installment of Stories of Brooklyn Insights, ... Community Foundation shares the voices of ARTs East New York, a storefront...

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