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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... are also benefiting from a giving surge by people in their 50s and 60s, especially those seeking to get their ... example, now produces grant-making forms that are filled in with key details, making it simpler...

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Arcus Foundation Launches New Website

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10/21/2014

... videos and articles featuring grantees and leaders in the fields of social justice and great apes conservation, ... the world who are pushing boundaries and making change in pursuit of goals and principles...

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... past two years, everyone’s been focused on resilience in the context of Sandy-like storms, but that’s because we ... that the city be ready for those. For example, the natural event likely to hit New York next...

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

... The Sierra Club and Michael Bloomberg are upping the ante in their effort to close down coal-fired power plants, announcing on Wednesday another $60 million in funding for their anti-coal campaign. If...

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Ford, Citi and MasterCard Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality

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09/28/2015

... global companies and foundations are committing millions in additional financing for gender equality at a Business and ... Business and philanthropy leaders attending today’s event in support...

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Two Mexico City Landmarks Reopen With Support From The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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06/10/2016

... restored Xochipilli Fountain and Composer’s Passage in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, one of the oldest public parks in the world. In 2014, the Foundation provided a $1 million ... the...

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Community Development

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

Martin is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal ... the system face when they try to leave it behend. “ In my experience, people go to prison and they learn how to...

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PhilTalks

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PhilTV: Century Foundation Hosts Policing Debate at NYU Wagner

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04/06/2017

After additional incidents of police force, some resulting in death, tensions between police and civilians have galvanized media and public attention. Consensus around the most effective way to keep every community safe and ensure accountability...

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Justice Reform

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NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA

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05/08/2017

... liberal state offers some of the top Medicaid benefits in the country. . . “Today’s vote to approve the American ... and the elimination of the Essential Plan could result in more than 1 million New Yorkers...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... Italy restaurant that topped the World’s 50 Best List in 2016, was planning to open one of his food waste-fighting soup kitchens, called Refettorios, in the Bronx with support from New York’s Italian .....

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Food Systems

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids in America is hungry, while also raising funds to help ... campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format for charity,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal

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09/07/2017

... May Be The New Normal One week after the record deluge in Texas, the biggest hurricane ever measured in the mid-Atlantic is tearing through the Caribbean. ... storm, is destroying homes and threatening lives...

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

... today meant to underscore deep worries that the world is in danger of backsliding on a broad range of ... The report, and two events the Gateses will host next week in New York alongside the United Nations...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit Billionaire developer ... with The Platform LLC to make a $27.5 million investment in bringing housing to Detroit...

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Community Development

Housing and Homelessness

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an initial target size of US$300 ... Goal no. 15 ‘Life on Land’. Opening the launch event , Monique Barbut, UNCCD Executive Secretary...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... most of the construction and operational costs; he brought in Heatherwick Studio (a London specialist in such projects) to design it. Though planned as a public park, the design also accommodated three outdoor...

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The Fatal Stabbing In A Bronx Classroom Was Horrific — But Also Extremely Rare

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09/28/2017

The Fatal Stabbing In A Bronx Classroom Was Horrific — But Also Extremely Rare ... debate over school safety and the use of metal detectors in schools — but also as serious crimes in schools are...

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Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country “Trust black women!” “Who ... Saturday, chants rang out as thousands flooded the streets in Washington, D.C. and rallied at 15 sister...

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Gender Justice

Funded by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, Handbags for Job Interviews

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09/24/2018

... who are heading for job interviews, auditions or any other event for which they need to dress up. "They can use it for a ... you are - anybody could use them." The concept came to her in 2016, when...

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