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The New Bedtime Story Is a Podcast

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10/03/2017

... even better than TV. Since the NPR podcast for kids “Wow in the World” debuted in May, he’s listened to every episode three times. ... under a quarter of Americans have listened to a podcast in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... for 1.8 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households in America. The Common Cents approach to designing financial ... partnered with Common Cents Lab because they are a leader in this field. For the past...

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Economic Security

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... Agency to resume cleanup efforts of radioactive locations in Lewiston and Niagara Falls, warning they still pose a ... cost of the cleanups to be $3 million and said they were in various stages of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-...

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Workforce Development

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising ... 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a political saga set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage ... employees, $175,000 for cleanup...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

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10/10/2017

... centers program. This special funding authority expired in 2015. As part of the funding extension for the ... health center statistics come as a shock. Beginning in 1965, a handful of health centers, launched...

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Health

The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

After Superstorm Sandy, Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation — launched a project for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with...

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JPMorgan Chase Puts Funding Towards New York Workforce Development

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10/31/2017

... bucks — more than $500,000 — on workforce development in New York City. JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy, the ... on two new programs targeting workers and small businesses in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Global...

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank Philanthropy

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

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11/17/2017

... Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for ... announced today that it will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to...

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Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... and CEO Teresa C. Younger released the following statement in response to the Alabama Special Election: “We are proud ... is no room for sexual assault, pedophilia, and Roy Moore in the halls of Congress and...

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Gender Justice

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Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

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12/15/2017

... Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. ... San Diego, received the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in mathematics. The award notes their “...

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

Websites profiling the comparative performance of healthcare providers often fail to deliver information that consumers actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital Fund (UHF).

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety

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01/05/2018

... of change of cities themselves. Many city governments in the U.S. and elsewhere are torn when it comes to innovation. On the one hand, constituents live in a world that increasingly demands flexibility, ...

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North Star Fund Announces 9 Catalyst Grants

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01/16/2018

... who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city by inequity and injustice. Like all our grantees, ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Civic Engagement

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Westchester Community Foundation Names New Board Chair, Members

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01/16/2018

... philanthropist, and non-profit advisor who serves in leadership roles on local and national nonprofit and ... giving. Its Board oversees its Westchester activities. In 2017, it awarded $2.1 million in...

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Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... has committed to packaging an additional 1 million meals in 2018... Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series "In Their Own Words"

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03/29/2018

New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series " In Their Own Words" In Their Own Words: Quardean Lewis-Allen, Made in Brownsville .....

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2018 Core Support for National Arts Service Organizations

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04/17/2018

... diversity and collective power and responsibility in supporting performing artists and the institutions with ... for the arts at DDCF. “They serve critical roles in their fields, making us confident that...

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Arts

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR Lata N. Reddy, the senior vice president of ... was done through “an inside out and an outside in perspective”—using the company’s skills to work on a...

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