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NPs Share Excellent Management Practices (New York Community Trust)

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01/19/2016

... Trust) You could tell by the size of the crowd in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium and by the whispers in the seats between panelists’ comments that attendees of ... college students by...

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation-A Leader in the Growth of Community Development Financial Institutions

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04/04/2017

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation-A Leader in the Growth of Community Development Financial Institutions ... Foundation’s most recent gift is another $3.8 million in grant money to fund Local Initiatives...

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

... Committee as an independent advisory member. Lisa’s career spans more than 25 years in community development finance and impact investing across ... board experience and joined Anthos Asset Management ...

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He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy

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08/22/2017

... New York Times ran a full-page obituary about his life and career . The article made much of his time at Chase Bank, but ... attention to Rockefeller’s long and varied involvements in philanthropy. It was an...

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “I am so tired of dealing with ‘grassroots’ organisations here in Haiti. Unfortunately ‘grassroots’ means no brains and ... new idea is...

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At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff

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09/20/2017

... body, currently includes only 13 women, down from 18 in 2009, and that number is likely to soon fall to 12 when the next Council is seated in January, if this year’s elections continue as expected. .....

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... is recognized as one of the nation’s leading voices in modern literature and a bold visionary in the academy. Over the course of a distinguished academic and artistic career , she has...

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Jerome Foundation Announces Inaugural Organization Grant Recipients

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06/18/2018

... The Jerome Foundation today announced $4,159,500 in grants to 84 arts organizations in Minnesota and New York City. These grants to nonprofit ... offering important programs and services for early ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

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10/05/2018

... and professional development opportunities for early- career humanists; to create a digital tool informed by the ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative

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11/06/2018

... Goals Initiative (AGI) for Regenerative Medicine . In this latest AGI effort, the five multi-disciplinary teams ... for Translational Vision Research team both had RPB Career Development Awards (CDAs). The...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Deutsche Bank Gives USD 1 Million to Address Homelessness in New York City

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12/04/2015

Deutsche Bank Gives USD 1 Million to Address Homelessness in New York City The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation ... – veterans, domestic violence survivors, LGBTQ youth , and formerly incarcerated individuals and...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline ... bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services The national effort spearheaded by ... the Effectiveness of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System” and launched by the...

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New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child Maltreatment

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09/13/2017

... income equality, but a new study contends that a rise in wages would also reduce child maltreatment. According to a ... and University of Connecticut researchers released in the January issue of Children and...

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Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges

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09/20/2017

... stories rarely land the city’s child-welfare system in the headlines, and the last few weeks have been no ... The Administration for Children’s Services stepped in just this past weekend to remove a young boy...

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Tow Foundation and Chronicle of Social Change Announce 2019 Raise the Age Reporting Fellowships Recipients

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02/26/2019

... of an ambitious plan to reinvigorate watchdog journalism in the backyards of America's statehouses, The Chronicle of ... provide stipends and reporting support to four reporters in upstate and western New...

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Justice Reform

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William T. Grant Foundation Seeking Applications for Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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06/18/2019

... that affect the lives of young people ages 5 to 25 in the United States. Research proposals are evaluated on the ... and their contribution to theory and empirical evidence. In our focus area of reducing...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Leadership in Government Fellows

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03/02/2020

Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Leadership in Government Fellows NEW YORK—The first Indian American ... pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the Leadership in Government Fellowship, an initiative...

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What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

... May 15, 2015. Many years ago, one of those key people in my life, a professor named Dale Mann at Columbia ... the world that is not the way I think it should be, my education gives me an opportunity – and a...

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