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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... scientists will each be awarded $200,000/year – for up to three years – to enable them to pursue groundbreaking research at a stage when traditional ...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations

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09/09/2016

Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations The New York ... Department of Cultural Affairs is beginning an initiative to improve diversity at major New York...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/15/2016

... cost of the impact that a lack of access child care has on working mothers, especially low-income women of color. With ... costs of college, it forces women who barely earn enough to pay rent and keep the...

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Gender Justice

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices ... should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned? ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act .....

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors

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10/17/2016

Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors Brooklyn Community Foundation announces ... co-founder of the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP, to its board of directors, effective...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real time based on items they've viewed or bought. ... aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to improve...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Community Development

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NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

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10/31/2016

... as a prominent voice of morality. So it seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Mr. Walker joined the board ... Would Mr. Walker’s day job and his new board duties be working at cross-purposes?...

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Economic Security

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After the Election, Building the Beloved Community

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11/23/2016

... our country and our people right now, so much injustice to newly assess, understand and address. This is the work we ... and I am in awe of the energy and urgency you have brought to it over the past several...

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Insights

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Economic Security

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness The project will, among ... a retired retail executive. “I bump into people; I try to avoid crowds. It was important for me to do...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Health

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering ... distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Education

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

... Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma Angel's Story looks at the early success of a ... The video follows 14-year-old Angel as the program works to remedy issues at home...

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Video

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Health

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

... from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to a new level and is being honored for her hard work. ... project, which featured professional women, was used to inspire young girls across the world.....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances...

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

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Arts

Gender Justice

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How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

... including Eric Garner in New York City. The order aimed to have the Office of the Attorney General -- which Cuomo ... held from 2007 through 2010 -- bypass what many came to see as an inherent conflict of...

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Justice Reform

Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

... officer of the NoVo Foundation, which supports efforts to end violence against women and girls, and the co-chair of ... criminal justice system often doesn’t allow prosecutors to explore nuances such as the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Gender Justice

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Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer

Release Date:

03/20/2017

... his role as the CFO for the Foundation, but continues to serve as an external trustee. Mellendick will provide leadership and support to all financial aspects of the Foundation, effectively ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

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03/22/2017

Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit The Stay Midtown ... and Kresge Foundation, the program is also designed to respond...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense ... program, now called the Liberty Defense Fund . According to the press release, the initiative would spend “more than $1...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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