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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... City’s ‘Food Deserts’ When Sade Bennett started working in April at a small farm on the grounds of a New York ... in Brooklyn, she had a GED, a 5-year-old son, and a desire to better her health and her...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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New York Health Foundation

Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... Their Futures When people have asked me what compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ... is not only guided by principles of social justice, and working to...

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... thing goes for biologists, as they work with programmers to bring order to the chaos of neurons firing by the millions. But get everyone working together under the same roof with extensive...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum In 1947, the Abstract Expressionists ... “Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner were urging them to come,” Terrie Sultan, the director...

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Environment and Climate Change

Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s major ... top 1.25 miles of ocean, and while Johnson has been eager to send probes deeper for years, the...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

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03/15/2018

... for-profit and non-profit sectors. In her role, she works to minimise footprints and environmental impact via the brand’s foundation, looking mostly towards ways to support responsible mining and coral...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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JPMorgan Chase Releases 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report

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04/26/2018

... Report JPMorgan Chase believes there is a pressing need to expand access to opportunity and help more people move up the economic ... growth, we are taking a strategic, data-driven approach to...

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Civic Engagement

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Names Nicole Taylor as President and CEO

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11/14/2018

... of SVCF. SVCF advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems in San Mateo and Santa Clara ... enthusiasm for serving the community and her commitment to working with SVCF...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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Chris Ransom Joins Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program as Program Officer

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03/06/2019

... Officer for Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program. Prior to Arcus, Ransom spent 12 years at the Zoological Society of ... conservation programs in Africa and the Middle East. Prior to his work with ZSL, Ransom...

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Animal Welfare

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New York Women's Foundation Awarded $11 Million in Grants in 2018

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03/13/2019

... announced that it awarded grants totaling $11 million to a hundred and seventy-five community organizations in ... and Allies, which is focused on survivor-led organizations working to...

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Gender Justice

The New York Women's Foundation

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Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees

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06/20/2019

Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees New York, 20 June 2019 — The Ford ... that Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode have been elected to serve as members of its Board of...

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Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

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09/30/2019

Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ... technology is challenging and changing what it means to be human, Rees’ duties will be ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Technology

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Can We Still Improve Philanthropy?

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07/17/2009

... Fellow, Philanthropy New York Being away from the day- to -day administration of a foundation has allowed me some time to think about how philanthropy can be improved. That is a ... short piece. It is also a...

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New Arcus Report on Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation Reveals Potential of Collaboration Among Industry, Conservation and Government Sectors

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04/18/2014

... at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. As threats to conservation are increasingly driven by economic ...

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Research Yields Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola

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09/19/2014

... describes the use of fecal samples from wild great apes to identify populations likely to have been exposed to the virus. This represents a new tool ... fact that, like humans, apes surviving...

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Health

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Arcus Foundation

At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities

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10/15/2014

... Around the world, countries have been challenged to recover from the 2007- 2008 global economic and financial crisis. Africa is no exception to that. Africa has seen the fastest urbanization, with ... slums...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Announces Detroit Service Corps to Strengthen City's Nonprofit Community

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11/04/2014

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Announces Detroit Service Corps to Strengthen City's Nonprofit Community JPMorgan Chase & ... program that sends teams of top-performing employees to Detroit to...

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