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Chen, Kidvai Named First Paul Rapoport Law Fellows

Release Date:

07/17/2014

... was established at Equal Justice Works in 2013 as the final grant of the Paul Rapoport Foundation which is ...

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Paul Rapoport Foundation, Inc.

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LGBTQ

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Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

The Department of Homeless Services is quietly finalizing more than $98 million in contracts that would turn five apartment buildings currently part of the notoriously mismanaged cluster site program into homeless shelters, and maintain six more as...

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Housing and Homelessness

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... began this summer. And now the library has secured the final $55 million in private money needed to pay for that ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

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05/07/2015

... stage of development. In the paper, published May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to develop the first ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

... the world to reduce drinking and driving between 1982 and 2015 . . . The research was conducted during the Global ...

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Citi Named Finalist for U.S. Chamber Foundation 2016 Corporate Citizenship Awards

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09/14/2016

... Corporate Citizenship Awards According to a Nielsen survey report , 55 percent of global consumers are willing to pay ... that are perceived as good corporate citizens. In 2015 , Citi made a ten-year goal to...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in 2015 , the latest year surveyed, the Census Bureau reported ...

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Workforce Development

A Consequential Myth

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04/09/2019

... this point. The bystander video went viral. It showed a white man, with a gun in hand, viciously punching a black ... that the black woman committed a traffic violation. The white man tried to record her...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Uprooting Racism to Advance Health Equity

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01/04/2022

... documents racism's brutal impact on health. Compared to White women, Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die ... than Whites. Black and Latino adults disproportionately report being treated...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Scaling Effectively: Create a Plan, Support the Vision and Manage the Risks

Release Date:

06/17/2015

... dollars set aside to ensure that the organization has the resources it needs to try new things. Sometimes, ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Community Development

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19 Oct 2010

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at 20: Looking Back/Looking Ahead to Building a More Inclusive Community

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... session is designed to: Provide funders with a 360 status report on the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities ... of people with disabilities. Offer accessible tools and resources for grantmakers...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

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01/23/2017

... frequent flooding is putting more and more strain on aging infrastructure, while continued sea-level rise is threatening coastal resources . These are real and serious challenges, and they ... Resilient by...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

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05/05/2015

... 10 students were named America’s top youth volunteers of 2015 today by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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New York Life Sponsors TAPS Good Grief Camps and Provides Scholarships to Attend

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05/22/2015

... in Washington, D.C., over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25, 2015 . They will participate in age-appropriate bereavement ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Veterans

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New York Life Foundation

Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

... Scorecard on State Health System Performance finds. The 2015 edition of the state scorecard—the first one in the ...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... centers program. This special funding authority expired in 2015 . As part of the funding extension for the Children’s ...

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J.P. Morgan commits $20 million in support of Latino-led businesses

Release Date:

03/29/2022

... by their investment in L’ATTITUDE Ventures.” A report by Bain & Company* found that $1.4 trillion in revenue ... had the same access and connections to capital as white -owned businesses. The Bain &...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Economic Security

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United Hospital Fund Literacy Project, funded by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Makes Lasting Difference at East Harlem Health Center

Release Date:

09/27/2023

... or English proficiency. While providing tangible resources like books are important, physicians also focused ... equity, social justice, and anti-racism in its literacy resources . This has included ensuring...

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Education