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Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info

Release Date:

11/22/2016

... Request for Info Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities (WWC) is a national ... a hundred-plus mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence. The initiative is...

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Community Development

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Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years

Release Date:

06/13/2017

Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years Millions of American workers in their 50s and 60s want, or need, to keep working past the...

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Aging

Workforce Development

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards

Release Date:

11/17/2017

... Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded program begun in April 2015, was named a 2017 Navigator Award recipient for ... management, transparency, access to data and the adoption of best practices and data-...

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Civic Engagement

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American Express Gives Federal Hall Grant For Restoration Work; Building Declared 'National Treasure'

Release Date:

12/04/2015

... Work; Building Declared 'National Treasure' One of America's most iconic but oft forgotten monuments is ... to its former glory. American Express has made a grant of $300,000 to restore and...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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UJA-Federation of New York Works with Partners to Deliver Kosher Passover Food to Ukraine

Release Date:

03/29/2022

UJA-Federation of New York Works with Partners to Deliver Kosher Passover ... 29, 2022) – With a scarcity of kosher Passover food in Ukraine, UJA-Federation of New York worked...

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Disaster Relief

Jewish Interests

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UJA-Federation of New York

MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up The big subway fix may be in a bit of a fix. An ambitious MTA plan to rescue the subway from collapse may get scaled back for lack of funding, the head of...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Release Date:

04/24/2015

Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day In 1993, a small article announcing Take Our Daughters to ... Magazine. We created that day when I was the president...

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

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Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts

Release Date:

04/14/2016

... Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts An exhibition at Vero’s newest gallery, Raw ... Space at Edgewood, is devoted this month to the paintings of Nereida Garcia Ferraz...

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Arts

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Release Date:

01/06/2017

Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco ... it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy...

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Health

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With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

Release Date:

05/05/2017

... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement ... who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more...

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Economic Security

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work

Release Date:

03/01/2017

... Theoretically, insuring such individuals in their own pool prevents their high costs from raising ... insufficient funding, constraints on eligibility, and gaps in coverage... Century Foundation Report Finds...

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Health

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The Century Foundation

María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

Release Date:

05/15/2014

... today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism. Ronderos will ... to promote viable, high-quality media, particularly in countries transitioning to democracy. She...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... Finds Understanding how antibiotic scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome mining. ... this knowledge to help solve the X-ray crystal...

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Health

Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory ... and develop recommendations after several months of...

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Disaster Relief

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Open Society Foundations

The Rockefeller Foundation

Making Reporting Work: Aligning Grantmaking with Learning & Change - Part 3 of a Three-Part Series

** This is Part 3 of a Three-Part Series, in partnership with Northern California Grantmakers** Change ... present the opportunity to build a longer-term community of practice, ensuring continued...

Mapping: Data visualization tools to convey knowledge and bring your foundation’s work to life

Publication date:

09/2012

Part of the " Moving Strategically Along the Information Highway Series". Jake Garcia of the Foundation Center discussed helping fundations locate ... as well as provided tips for managing the flow of information. Mapping: Data visualization tools to convey .....