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The Elmezzi Foundation Pledges $3 Million to Help End Generational Poverty in Astoria and Long Island City

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09/17/2014

... Pledges $3 Million to Help End Generational Poverty in Astoria and Long Island City Zone 126 has announced the ... support of the Thomas and Jeanne Elmezzi Foundation with a new five year $3M...

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Economic Security

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Comparing Spending Down and Perpetuity - Should Charity Go on Forever?

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10/09/2014

... (the company that sells the tax-free alcohol and perfume in airports), is practically unknown as a public figure. Though Forbes once ranked him the ... all his wealth, he became an early, outsized example of...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Honored for Urban Development Work

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10/16/2014

... Land Institute (ULI) J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, which is the institute's highest honor. Dr. Rodin will be honored at a celebratory luncheon October 23 during ULI's Fall...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Profiled in Rolling Stone

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01/16/2015

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Profiled in Rolling Stone For RBF, the logic of divestment was twofold. "There was a very clear moral impetus to do this," Wayne says. RBF makes ... barrels of proven reserves,...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

... rates of young women as compared to similarly aged men. New research led by the Yale School of Public Health, and published Feb. 24 in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and ... to seek emergency...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business

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04/23/2015

... Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business A variety of simultaneous trends are keeping more Americans ... with more than 100 small business owners and advisors in...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... mediating between the city and its creditors. He called in an all-star squad of foundation presidents—the newly ... Kellogg Foundation's La June Montgomery Tabron—and made a jaw-dropping proposal: All...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... across multiple research efforts. IBD Plexus will include a biobank; registries to capture clinical, patient-reported, ... services. "We have seen breakthrough discoveries in IBD, but progress toward...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes

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07/30/2015

Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes When Jim Palmer and his wife, Susan, married in ... the Baseball Hall of Fame. But the maid of honor was not a relative or friend of...

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Morgan Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C.

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07/30/2015

... Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C. A new development breaking ground today in the nation's capital .....

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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

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08/04/2015

... Career Services for Low-Income Individuals As part of a vigorous new effort to help jobless Americans upgrade their reading ... people whose skills deficit has kept them trapped in poverty...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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NY Charities Bureau Launches Searchable Database of Non-Profit Dissolutions Approved by Attorney General

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08/07/2015

... Approved by Attorney General As you are aware, New York’s Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 made ... General determines that court approval is warranted. In order to provide easy access to the Attorney...

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Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

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08/17/2015

... Effects of Impact Investing Let's say that you budget a certain amount of money to give to charity every year, ... contribute to a social or environmental cause. This is not new to...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students A new study of more than 500 Black and Latino college students ... confirmed that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Playwright, Novelist and Songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank

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10/15/2015

... and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank ( New York, NY) – The Gish Prize Trust announced that ... and paved the way for the next generation. Established in 1994 through the will of legendary stage and...

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BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

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10/19/2015

... Community Transformation Philanthropy is trending in a new direction and women are leading the way. The newest ...

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

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10/20/2015

... – and it is one of our great opportunities to make a difference. Traffic crashes are the 9th leading cause of death in the world and are the number one cause of death for people ... road deaths. Last year, we...

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Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

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10/20/2015

... Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block In America today, a person’s ability to lead a long, healthy life is so ... how long the average American lived in...

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... Schoolyard Initiative PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Michael A . Nutter, Deputy Mayor/Department of Parks and Recreation ... partnership and celebrated the latest accomplishment in the initiative, the pending completion...

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