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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

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08/04/2015

... John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, U. S . Bank, and Capital One. Local funders in communities across ...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Community Development

Education

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Citi

25 Aug 2015

Peace, Conflict, and the Scale of the Climate Risk Landscape - Webinar

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 -

1:15pm to 2:45pm

... national, regional and international levels. Join us for this session, which will give an overview of the ...

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Economic Security

Environment and Climate Change

30 Sep 2015

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months. Join us for an opportunity to share important updates, network ...

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Roundtable Discussion

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Arts

29 Oct 2015

Exploring Grantmaking Strategy: Options and Approaches

Thursday, October 29, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... strategic choices and grantmaking practices? Join us for a highly interactive session organized by members of ... October 28th. Presented by Young Leaders Breakfast Club' s Issue-based Event Planning Team...

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Emerging Leaders

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Jessie Smith Noyes At Top of the List of Family Foundations Who Fund Social Justice Work

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10/07/2015

... of Foundation Center data on the thousand largest U. S . foundations, the report, Families Funding Change: How ...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

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10/20/2015

... City Block by City Block In America today, a person’ s ability to lead a long, healthy life is so impacted by where they live that it’ s startling. You don’t need to travel to a developing ... the lowest life...

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In Memoriam: James McConnell Clark of Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

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11/04/2015

... Clark Foundation. Jim will be sorely missed by those of us at the Foundation who knew him well. I worked with him ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

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11/12/2015

... network decides to prioritize quality over scale, it’ s not hard to foresee that toes will get stepped on and ... to get the services they so desperately need. That’ s an agonizing choice for any nonprofit,...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education

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Robertson Foundation

AT&T Foundation

Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

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11/16/2015

... CCA will be recruiting outstanding scientists from the U. S . and abroad for both junior and senior positions and will ...

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

... the spirit of giving gets lost. Peter says of the op-ed’ s origins, “We’d been hearing, ‘How do you measure, measure, measure?’ And that has been bothering us for quite some time.” Not that there’ s...

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New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation

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12/11/2015

... City, Nation The New York Community Trust, the City’ s community foundation, is spending $5.1 million on dozens of ... eye using flat-screen technology; improve the State’ s career and technical education...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

The New York Community Trust

Workforce Development

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain' s temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative ... with fear. But new research from Michael Platt, the James S . Riepe University...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

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12/16/2015

... not through your family history or by visiting your doctor' s office, but by looking at something as simple as your ... For example, look at the city of Boston. According to U. S . Census data, individuals...

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Rippel Foundation: What We Discovered at “The Frontiers” about Financing and Leading Improvements in Health

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12/18/2015

... can help accelerate those efforts, this project allowed us to test and confirm ReThink Health’ s learnings to date, build on them, and share those ...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in the U. S . place untenable burdens on an increasing share of ... we want is affordable clinical excellence, and that’ s what is distinctive about what we’re doing...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?

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02/10/2016

... health based on evidence and experience provided by us , we would hope it would be the RSG. . . Milbank ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

... waves among our foundation peers, garnering us the prestigious 2015 Impact Award from the National ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of three core focus...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... if spread nationwide, can improve the performance of the U. S . healthcare system. Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three ...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Duke Foundation Gives $1.5M for Arts to Increase Understanding of Muslim Societies

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03/04/2016

... of contemporary Muslim societies. Through DDFIA' s Building Bridges Program, eight nonprofit organizations in the U. S . will receive grants to plan and implement projects that ... audiences. Grant...

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