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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces $2.2 Million in Emergency Funding for Ebola Response Efforts

Release Date:

11/18/2014

... Charitable Trust today announced a $2.2 million grant to GlobalGiving to support both local and international humanitarian ... deeply-rooted in the affected communities and already working on...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

Release Date:

11/21/2014

... Million A new, seven-foundation partnership created to support nonprofits working to collect feedback and be more effective today ... nonprofits, according to Melinda Tuan,...

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Ford Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

Release Date:

06/02/2015

... and tragic aftermath in local cities and villages, bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community ... the key concepts from ecology is resilience, the ability to maintain or regain equilibrium...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

Release Date:

08/28/2015

... will tout the city’s recovery, few people in black working -class neighborhoods will be celebrating. After all, ... blacks in America and how far the nation still must go to end them. On August 4, we celebrated...

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North Star Fund

Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

Release Date:

09/04/2015

... Month In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest that LGBT History Month was founded a mere decade ... there at the start, more than two decades ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.” In...

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Arcus Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years

Release Date:

11/05/2015

... Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years The U.S. electric sector is expected to hit its lowest carbon emissions since 1995 this year, partly due to the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/07/2016

City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force employers to offer their workers a retirement plan, ... of 401(k...

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Economic Security

Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

Release Date:

01/03/2017

... York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting ... of immigrants; Increasing health insurance enrollment to ensure continued coverage;...

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The New York Community Trust

Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... Once Caged In 2016, the NoVo Foundation, a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’s son and daughter-in-law, announced it had won the rights to restore and redevelop the former prison. The project, ... and...

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Justice Reform

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NoVo Foundation

Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

Release Date:

03/10/2017

... Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources Lawmakers from Hungary's ... The law, which would require "agent organizations" seeking to influence...

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

Release Date:

08/08/2017

... information about common legal issues and connect users to legal aid providers, self-help centers, and lawyer ... and usability of these legal information websites. LSC, working closely with its consulting...

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Ford Foundation

A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... a mother’s heartache over her daughter’s autism led to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with disabilities. Out of ... an activist network pushes Muslims across the nation to address racial injustices. And in...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... Academy, and Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, in Marfa. To be an artist in residence means removing yourself from ... noise and obligations of regular life, and instead getting to concentrate on your...

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Arts

Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... Makes Eating Right a Challenge Tony Turner knew he had to improve his eating habits to reverse a recent diagnosis of prediabetes, but, after ... University. “During the 12 weeks, we had a support group...

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Children, Youth and Families

Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods

Release Date:

11/13/2017

Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods ... measures only benefit those who have access to...

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New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement

Release Date:

05/10/2018

New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement Tarana Burke and her MeToo movement ... said it has raised an initial $1 million for a fund to support Burke and the movement she founded 12...

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications

Release Date:

12/04/2018

... initial step in a streamlined process for organizations to apply for Arcus funding to support LGBTQ social justice work. The deadline for responses to this open call is January 22, 2019...

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02 Oct 2020

PNY First Fridays - October 2020

Friday, October 2, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... for PNY First Fridays: Agenda free, drop in coffee hours to meet new colleagues and reconnect with folks you haven’t ... Designed for You! (Philanthropy New York members.) What to expect: group...