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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

Release Date:

05/22/2014

... Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a new neighborhood of residential towers and office ... in the East River as part of a counter-intuitive plan to make the city more flood...

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Weinberg Foundation Launches Workforce Leadership Academy in Baltimore

Release Date:

06/08/2015

... development service field. The WSSA curriculum is designed to help senior professionals improve their skills and develop a strategic perspective to better meet the needs of low-income...

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Community Development

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

Release Date:

06/23/2016

NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American ... communities. Through a request-for-proposals process to be launched soon, First Nations will provide $20,000 ... These assessments...

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Food Systems

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NoVo Foundation

Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

Release Date:

09/27/2016

... The intensive summer program, which meets Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., combines more than 300 hours of instruction in ...

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Gender Justice

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Verizon

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series Continues

Release Date:

02/10/2017

... development through epigenetic variation. Offered free to the public to enhance the understanding of the biology of the mind and ...

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Health

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism

Release Date:

05/25/2017

... into differences in brain development that may predispose to schizophrenia or autism.” . . . Simons-Funded Research ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

Release Date:

08/31/2017

Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment Mayor de Blasio ... bill signing. . . Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... and deliberate sabotage by predatory developers looking to cash-in. As a pillar of the city’s most critical ... housing supply faces threats including conversion to market-rate housing and a lack of upkeep...

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Housing and Homelessness

A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs

Release Date:

09/22/2017

A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs To develop and sustain successful public-private partnerships, ... and replication opportunities. It’s also important to consider how the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017

Release Date:

11/28/2017

... Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017 The Bank of America ... in the fourth quarter are more than $570,000 in grants to nonprofits that support community...

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Community Development

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Names Deborah Wright as New Managing Director for U.S. Jobs and Economic Opportunity

Release Date:

07/30/2018

... Jobs & Economic Opportunity initiative. Ms. Wright comes to the Foundation after most recently serving as Chairman, ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future of Philanthropy

Publication date:

04/2013

... new research on next generation donors. A relatively small group of Generation Xers and Millennials will inherit over ...

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Report

Topic(s)

Evaluation

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Nonprofits Join Forces to Give Black Men a Brighter Future

Release Date:

12/08/2013

... for Black Male Achievement... Nonprofits Join Forces to Give Black Men a Brighter Future ...

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Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Open Society Foundations

Foundations Aim to Save Pensions in Detroit Crisis

Release Date:

01/13/2014

The New York Times reports that a group of national and local philanthropic foundations, ... including the Ford Foundation, have pledged $330 million to help save Detroit's art collection. National and local...

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Arts

Community Development

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Ford Foundation

Representing the Old And New in Brooklyn

Release Date:

03/10/2014

... Chairman Alan Fishman, who has donated $1 million to the foundation, was also the Wall Street Journal's Donor of the Day. With a $1 million gift to the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Alan Fishman is...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

The Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg Donates $1-Million Genesis Prize for Fellowship

Release Date:

05/23/2014

... public service and said he would use the $1-million award to launch a competition for young people with big ideas for ... fellowship under the auspices of the Genesis Philanthropy Group , a coalition of Russian...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Religion

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

NYCT Gives $7.6 Million in Largest Round of 2014 Grants

Release Date:

10/07/2014

... Grants The New York Community Trust is giving grants to nonprofits to provide legal aid to unaccompanied minors facing deportation; use the arts to ...

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The New York Community Trust

Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality

Release Date:

12/16/2014

... Pours Millions into Net Neutrality In addition to major telecommunications firms aiming to influence the public debate on net neutrality, there’s ...

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Technology

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Ford Foundation

Verizon Foundation Launches Diabetes Study

Release Date:

05/29/2015

... and Baptist Health have announced a pilot program to study whether mobile technology can improve the health of ... patients. The foundation is putting up $427,700 to help fund the year-long program...