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Elizabeth M. Hewitt to Join Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Chief Investment Officer, Senior VP

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10/08/2015

... and the CIO Search Committee. “I truly look forward to working with her in the years ahead.” As Managing ... (1998-1999). “Elizabeth has a decade-long history of working productively and effectively inside the...

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When It Comes To Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In

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06/24/2014

... resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller ... Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, people from all walks of life want to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Disaster Relief

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Foundation CEOs Need Candid Feedback to Succeed in Driving Change

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09/02/2014

... among the messages in a thoughtful, just-released letter from Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, ... preparing for years." "Easy as foundation work may look from some vantage points,...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Ford Foundation Strives to Boost Medicaid Enrollment

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12/01/2014

... has announced a $1.5 million program-related investment from the Ford Foundation in support of its efforts to enroll ... low-income employees in Medicaid. The low-interest loan from the New York City-based...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces New Grantmaking Areas

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02/20/2015

... a debilitating cost: climate change that results directly from human activity. This anthropogenic effect can have a ... and climate change are often considered in isolation from each other. At worst, these...

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Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance

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05/12/2015

... analyzes local data on the entire criminal justice system from beginning to end—the police, victims, defendants, ... MFJ recognizes that data become meaningful when culled from not one but multiple areas of...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

... Diabetes The Y has received a two-year, $860,500 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the ... for lowering health care expenditures. With funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation,...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration

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07/08/2015

... Cal Poly and UC Berkeley have received a $6 million grant from a three-foundation partnership to further develop an ... Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work through the stacks ... wealthy man, he knew what it was like to experience hunger from his teen years spent...

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Jewish Interests

UJA-Federation of New York

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Study: Metabolism Protein Found to Also Regulate Feeding Behavior in the Brain (JPB Foundation)

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02/26/2016

... yet fully understood by scientists. However, new research from The Rockefeller University reveals an important new ... the brain.” . . . This work is supported by funding from The JPB Foundation. . . Study:...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... LGBTQ communities. Stonewall seeks applications from organizations and projects focused on access to safe ... To that end, the foundation encourages proposals from organizations whose work addresses issues...

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RFPs Etc

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Gender Justice

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they ... Findings in the report are based on survey responses from individuals who were either the most senior evaluation ...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... says Mr. Jonas, a retired retail executive. “I bump into people; I try to avoid crowds. It was important for me ... do something.” The money to pay for the effort will come from the Barbara and Donald Jonas...

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Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online

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05/22/2017

... Chinese. The document is a compendium of best practices from cities around the world for designing streets that ... and 40 case studies. It covers a wide range of topics, from bike lane design to ...

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

... and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work. PLACES fellows embark on a year-long process ... ▪ Have a broad range of philanthropic experience, come from diverse backgrounds, and hail...

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As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored

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08/29/2017

... James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of ... New York City, Texas and country as a whole could benefit from a candid top-to-bottom...

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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... I came to the United States when I was 14 years old from Ecuador. I came here to join my parents, who had already ... other New Yorkers are able to get, I was able to graduate from college. Now I’ve just...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... The donation, which the library announced on Wednesday, is from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and is the second ... was renamed in his honor.) Together with $151 million from a longstanding city commitment,...

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