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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

... World Ploughshares opposes America’s development of a missile-defense system and contributes funds to scores of anti-war groups highly critical of U.S. foreign policy and military expansion...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 ... Peterson and his son Michael Peterson, the president...

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

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12/17/2014

... They also will have to reach older immigrants, many of whom have fewer language and literacy skills than the ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

... Images in Films What happens when specific groups of people are not seen or heard? The result is a potential ... into our languages and behaviors, which can turn into acts of bias, microaggressions, or...

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Communications/Media

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ... is providing a stress test for the fossil fuel sector of the risks it is likely to face due...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... its global grant, says limited rights to access and use of natural resources to generate wealth by minorities is a key cause of inequality and social injustices in Africa. The absence ... East Africa bearing...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

New York Women's Foundation offers nine investment principles for supporting disaster relief and recovery among under-resourced women and families.

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

... Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of Jamaica's thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to ... to the New York Community Trust, which awarded the...

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

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10/16/2015

... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational ... and CEOs: succession planning. In survey after survey of nonprofit leaders succession planning comes out on top. In ...

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Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston

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11/24/2015

... Operations to Move to Houston Paula Luff, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Hess Corporation, is leaving Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for over...

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

... necessarily as “caregivers,” Carol Levine, director of the New York City-based United Hospital Fund’s Families ... feel uncomfortable or too overwhelmed to take advantage of support groups and services, she...

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Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

... infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly define, limit, or categorize. Understanding current day nursing requires the surrender of outdated and reductionist paradigms and the...

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit organization ... in nine fields. Alberto Ibargüen, President & CEO of the Miami-based Knight...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

... organization has signed a long-term lease for all of the office space at 162 Fifth Ave., according to people familiar with the deal. The building is owned by a group of investors led by...

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Moody's Foundation Announces Winners For Creative Solutions to Contemporary Challenges

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06/20/2016

... Creative Solutions to Contemporary Challenges The winners of the 2016 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge – ... the Community Defender Challenge which asked small groups of young people (ages 14-...

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Research Travel Grant on Offer: David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships

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07/13/2016

... practice social innovation internationally. The Macquarie Group Foundation’s David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships are presented biennially to CEOs of non-profit organisations in selected US cities (New...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, Study Shows Alzheimer’s Patients Have Lower Perception of Pain

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07/13/2016

... Study Shows Alzheimer’s Patients Have Lower Perception of Pain People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive ... adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in pain...

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