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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

... million—up from $20 million committed originally — in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among ... doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around the world. “...

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UJA-Federation of New York Raises Record-breaking $249 Million in 2017-2018 Campaign Year

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07/27/2018

... of New York Raises Record-breaking $249 Million in 2017-2018 Campaign Year UJA-Federation of New York raised ... 2018, an increase of $11.2 million from the previous year. In addition to raising $156.1 million...

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United Way of New York City Names Gina Goodenow as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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08/15/2018

... organization's first female to take on this role in its 80-year history. Gina joined United Way of New York City in 2016 as the Vice President and Controller of Finance. As ... accounting and non-profit...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... Spaghetti Mystery If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single ... out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in two? If not, you’re in...

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Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away

Release Date:

08/16/2018

... 15, 2018 at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Joyce was born on August 27, 1950 in Medford, MA to the late Frank and Grace Bove. She...

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United Philanthropy #ForumCon18 Highlights

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09/07/2018

Watch videos from the Forum’s largest annual conference yet!

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist

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09/13/2018

... 1,000 applicants and led to over $7 million of investment in early-stage and scale-up projects to improve the way data ... “Tariq brings a unique combination of expertise in data and tech, longstanding...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Rockefeller Brothers Fund Join Coalition of 29 Philanthropies to Pledge $4 billion To Combat Climate Change

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09/17/2018

... Announced during the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on Friday, the commitment represents a broad ... innovation, and support organizations around the world working to protect the planet. The...

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Michael R. Bloomberg and Ray Dalio’s OceanX Announce Over $185 Million for New Partnership to Increase Ocean Exploration and Protection

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10/29/2018

... Partnership to Increase Ocean Exploration and Protection In a video message at the 5 th Annual Our Ocean Conference in Indonesia, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action Michael R. ... drives towards the shared...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

Release Date:

11/09/2018

... the nutrients they need to grow. The work, which appeared in Cell Metabolism on November 8, 2018, suggests that blocking AMPK in some conditions could stop the growth of advanced tumors in...

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United Hospital Fund and New York State Health Foundation Release New Report: Difficult Decisions About Post-Acute Care and Why They Matter

Release Date:

11/19/2018

... experience serious illness. Each year, approximately one in five hospital patients in the United States, including some 300,000 New Yorkers, require such care— in rehabilitation centers,...

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New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism Behaviors

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11/26/2018

New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism ... can alert of impending “challenging behaviors” in children and adolescents with autism. “I’ve seen ... “His world was pretty big...

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Scientists Develop a New Tool to Boost Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Research with Support from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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12/06/2018

... Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new tool described as a ... guide the skin cells along a known path that will result in a new liver. Without this cellular...

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Rockefeller Foundation Establishes Atlas AI - New Startup to Generate Actionable Intelligence on Global Development Challenges

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02/11/2019

... first Chief Executive Officer. A B-Corporation founded in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation in 2018, Atlas AI uses machine learning algorithms and a rich ... gold standard datasets collected by...

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Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis

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02/13/2019

... & Johnson announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal ... million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next decade,...

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New Paper From Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Perella Weinberg Partners Finds Investors Can Pursue Impact Without Sacrificing Returns

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02/20/2019

... for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which features heavily in the new publication, It’s More Than Just Talk . This ... myths surrounding mission aligned investing that PWP is working to demystify. In...

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Gerstner Philanthropies Makes New $15 Million Commitment to Create the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute

Release Date:

02/20/2019

... million commitment from the Gerstner Family Foundation in 2015. This work has already given rise to a major ... and prevent cancer progression, supported by $50 million in funding to create and make freely...

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Zegar Family Foundation Supported Research Uncovers Genome-Wide Responses That Limit Crop Growth

Release Date:

03/26/2019

... of water and nutrients. Its findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, potentially point to ways to engineer crops in soils around the world that are currently too dry or lack ... water...

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$100 Million Commitment From Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Western New York's Parks & Trails

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05/03/2019

... then things fell apart, as administrations changed hands. In recent years, LaSalle Park has seen incremental improvements – shots in the arm – the dog park, a skate park, and a pool ... has been breathing new...

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