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Member Input on Official Statement on Protecting the 2020 Census

... Organizations (PSOs) like Philanthropy New York to work in their local communities to ensure a full and fair 2020 ... leading up to the 2020 Census that it has not faced in previous decennial counts:...

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Joe Miller Joins The Century Foundation as Director of Digital Communications

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02/01/2013

... writer at FactCheck.org, as a writer with the Mack/Crounse Group , and as an assistant professor of philosophy at the ... the United States Military Academy. He received his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from...

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African Philanthropy Forum to Promote Transformation of the Continent 'From Within'

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04/22/2013

... African continent; the Tony Elumelu, MasterCard, Equity Group and Rockefeller foundations have pledged financial ... — committed to advancing equity and opportunity in the developing world. APF members...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In March, RBF gave Ploughshares a one-year $500,000 grant ... also been a major donor to...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie ... Chern Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes in the field of mathematics. Griffiths...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

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11/20/2014

... a network on nonprofits and advocacy groups have been working overtime to keep immigration reform on the political ... Times recently published a piece on the role of big money in the fight for immigration...

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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 ... But for the residents of the Port Morris neighborhood in the South Bronx, returns from the program...

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

Russian authorities have barred the pro-democracy charity network founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros from the country, saying its work undermined state security, Reuters and CNBC report.

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Social Justice

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... A major public-health organization and a local government group are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a rise in healthy communities. The American Public Health ... (APHA) and the National...

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Health

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley The non-profit group Scenic Hudson has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... The five-year Mellon grant will assist the university in establishing a center for racial justice, hiring faculty ... report containing recommendations from the university’s Working Group on...

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Fast Company Names James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies 'The Most Creative Person of 2017'

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05/16/2017

... at Bloomberg Philanthropies, where he oversees a group of programs dedicated to helping city leaders around ... ideas. Before launching the government innovation team in 2010, Anderson was the communications...

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Technology

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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

... groups that breed hate and violence. And now the terrorism in Barcelona and Finland. I’ll try to move back to grace ... currents we are pushing against are only getting stronger. In the midst of feeling weary...

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... not provocative to state the importance of innovation in creating business value from your sustainability efforts. ... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness "Social entrepreneurship ... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... show appearances. But the main goal of their two days in Vermont did not involve knives or whisks, split-second ... and wrestling with some of the thorniest policy issues in the food system. The diverse...

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Food Systems

The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about ... WNYC and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom focused on guns in America, took a look at the...

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Justice Reform

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ... research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the...

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