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New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

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09/05/2017

... be problems for fast-growing cities. Cities like Chennai in China, which in December 2015 experienced its worst rainfall in 100 years, ... infrastructure to boost resilience through...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... Treating Mental Health ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four years. One in 5 New Yorkers in any given year will experience mental .....

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this ... in the...

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Housing and Homelessness

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

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09/20/2017

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is ... year, a new research paper has found. In all, 28.3 percent of teachers in traditional schools...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... for the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the ... and Administrators, the union representing 253 employees in...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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09/25/2017

... at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G That's gotta hurt. Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after ...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

... from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and ... has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff...

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Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project

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10/03/2017

... with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project The mission of Reeves-Reed Arboretum is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of visitors to become better stewards of nature and the ... to...

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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy ... philanthropist Agnes Gund, today announced the first round of grant recipients in the areas of...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... populations that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education . The grant will build on the successful programs ... exceptionally proud to again benefit from the generosity of The...

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Live Now From The Century Foundation: Diversity Matters: Getting Public School Choice Right

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05/15/2018

... the day to hear from speakers including former secretary of education John King , professor Melissa Harris-Perry , ...

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New York Life Foundation Announces New National Initiative to Help Schools Support Students Who Have Lost a Parent or Loved One

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10/11/2018

... New York Life Foundation, the largest corporate sponsor of childhood bereavement support, today announced the national launch of its Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative (GSSI). Through ... employees and agents...

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Children, Youth and Families

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14 Jun 2022

A Moment for International Grantmaking: Applying Ethics to Practice

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3:30pm to 5:00pm

... With that privilege comes the responsibility to use values of the highest levels and employ explicit ethical dimensions. ... Fund Buff Kavelman (Moderator) , President, The Kavelman Group and Co-Chair ...

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A New April 15: Make It a Day of Giving (Efficiently)

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03/15/2010

By Eugene Steuerle (This piece was originally published in The NonProfit Times on March 1, 2010, and is reprinted ... gifts made for Haiti relief during February and most of January 2010 to be deducted on 2009...

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MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

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09/18/2015

... quality, affordable financial tools and know-how for those in need” is the objective behind MetLife Foundation’s ... on-going efforts in communities across the world. Working in...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

... the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the work of the National Theater Project . NTP promotes the development and touring of artist-led, ensemble, and devised theater works. To that end, NEFA will use...

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... and exciting stuff happens—complex computer simulations of galaxy formation, algorithms churning through terabytes of ... of neurons firing by the millions. But get everyone working...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum In 1947, the Abstract Expressionists James Brooks and ... were urging them to come,” Terrie Sultan, the director of the Parrish Art Museum, said in...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s major philanthropic ... But we’ve also seen an apparent increasing interest in funding climate change work. The tech...

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