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9 Million Kids Get Health Insurance Under CHIP. Congress Just Let It Expire.

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for ... checkups, immunizations, visits...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

... That It Can Cut Evictions At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over ... representing themselves in court. “This is the kind of bottleneck entry...

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Housing and Homelessness

Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for ... The twin actions, by the Department of Health and Human Services and the...

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Shake Shack Founder on Changing The Way Restaurants Do Business

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... The Way Restaurants Do Business If you've eaten out in the past couple of decades, chances are a restaurateur named Danny Meyer has ... how your meal went. Since he opened his first restaurant in...

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Food Systems

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

... large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts. Community Capital Management’s CRA-Qualified ... ratings have become essential for judging financial risk of an investment, third-party...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... Queens press conference. The city does provide 30 days of notice for the opening of a new shelter, but has not done ... or emergency housing, even when the Department of Homeless ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Housing and Homelessness

Trinity Church Appoints Neill Coleman as New Chief Philanthropy Officer

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05/25/2018

... church, which awards more than $10 million a year in grants. He previously served as vice president of global communication at The Rockefeller Foundation as well ... as serving in the federal...

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Howard Gilman Foundation and the American Express Foundation Fund "The Gospel at Colonus"

Release Date:

08/03/2018

... tragedy turned into religious parable within the framework of the Pentecostal church, that unites cultures and époques, and it invites people to participate in a communal spiritual experience, much as they...

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Arts

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American Express

Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.9 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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02/07/2022

... announced today that it has awarded $4.9 million in Helping Hands funds to our grantee organizations. The ... who combine Helping Hands funds with holistic wrap-around services to help clients avoid...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Gerstner Philanthropies

28 Jun 2012

Foundation Executive Assistants Network Meeting

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -

12:15pm to 2:00pm

... Assistants. Strong demand for a professional networking group for EAs (and those in similar roles) led to this convening. At this first ... outside the network. Designed for Members who serve in...

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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Release Date:

03/13/2014

... cooperation with South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s, but many people know what it means now: companies and institutions can stop investing in corporate or business actions that are harmful...

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

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04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, held an opening ... celebration on March 31, 2014. The institute, established...

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Science

Technology

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The Simons Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

Release Date:

09/18/2014

... Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the last year are ... signed up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent of people who bought healthcare plans...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

Release Date:

11/03/2014

... funded by Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group , is making good on its promise to give away all of its money in the next two years...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

Release Date:

10/19/2014

... protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New York City, which attracted some 400,000 people to ... which required real physical and moral courage, or issues of fierce contention like war, that...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

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 ... free from the...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

Release Date:

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 billion in annual waste in...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

Release Date:

12/17/2014

... president’s executive action on immigration announced in November. All together, an estimated 5 million ... They also will have to reach older immigrants, many of whom have fewer language and literacy skills...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

Release Date:

01/22/2015

... Foundation Releases International Study on Gender 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...

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