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With Latest $350 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Surpasses $1 Billion in Giving to Alma Mater

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01/29/2013

... first donation, a gift of $5, in 1965. Philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed $350 ...

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Carnegie President Credited In Co-Creation of Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

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04/29/2016

... George Clooney, consists of nine professionals who bring a diverse background, and were founded by three ... Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York... Carnegie President Credited...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces $2.3M in Grants to Nonprofits Serving Youth, Girls of Color

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12/14/2016

... Brooklyn Community Foundation announced $1.9 million in new grants through its Invest in Youth initiative, ...

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Gender Justice

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Brooklyn Org

NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

... Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular ... high achievers but have been criticized as shutting out low -income children. Ms. Fariña, in an...

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

... will allow USAID to distribute Sirturo to over 100 low and middle income countries at little or no cost. ... approval program. Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by the FDA in...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Johnson & Johnson

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

... are not met and they waste their time and money on low -quality instruction—sometimes never completing their degree at all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in College , ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado

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04/29/2016

... are interlinked—and how they impact businesses and low -income people. The resilience strategy is a new approach to city planning spearheaded by the Rockefeller ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Most Foundations Neglect Rural America. Helmsley Charitable Trust Doesn't

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11/02/2016

... These are some of the poorest regions of the country and low -income people in remote places can be uniquely isolated ... with the multibillion-dollar estate of the late New York City hotel and real estate...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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Rockefeller Supports Training Workshops on Impact Investing in Ghana and South Africa

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03/03/2017

... steadily gaining attention and traction .. While this is new terrain for evaluators, there are several resources on both impact investing and impact ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Beyond a Portal, to Real Patient Engagement

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04/10/2017

... from the author, David Sandman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation A few weeks ago, I read an ... Is it the level of pain involved, the expected success rate , quality of life, survival rates,...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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16 Oct 2013

Executive Assistants Network - Effectively Manage Your Board

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... requires timely and effective communications, accurate record keeping, and a clear sense of their role. At this ... Communications (Who, What, Where, Why, & When) Minutes and Record Keeping What Policies...

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Executive Support Staff

Gerstner Philanthropies Awards Over $3 Million For Emergency Grant Program

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01/22/2020

... making additional grants this year for Helping Hands to bring the total close to $4 million. Emergency grants have ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... of players with lots of agendas, but the key issues boil down to a familiar few: We have a chemical-intensive system ...

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Food Systems

As Funders of Equity and Education, Connect Research to Action for School Integration

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11/21/2016

... Coordinator, Donors’ Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Those of us who are focused on ... West Side. An organizer described his recent efforts to bring advocates, youth and scholars...

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The New York Community Trust

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"Culture Changes Us" Campaign and Retreat Series Launches with Support from Nathan Cummings Foundation

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05/20/2016

... Launches with Support from Nathan Cummings Foundation New York City—Today, award-winning culture change strategy ... increasingly investing staff time and programmatic resources in projects and initiatives...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Communications/Media

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14 Dec 2016

Unconnected Prisoner Re-Entry Services? There’s a Collaborative Solution For That

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... solution to working with individuals in selected New York State prisons to achieve several objectives, ...

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Albany Dysfunction: Is Change Possible?

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07/30/2010

Philanthropy New York recently held a members briefing (sponsored by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation , The New York Community Trust , and The Clark Foundation ) ... on New Yorkers’ anger and clamor...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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All Funders

11 Apr 2023

Guiding Donors on the How and Now of Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... wealth creation and wealth transfer. More donors have the resources to meaningfully address those challenges. But the ... donors, artfully question their assumptions, and show them new paths to effective...

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Tools & Strategies

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Family Foundation

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NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

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08/09/2016

... Americans rose in many parts of the country, including New York. More than 80 percent of the media’s coverage ... don’t personally know a Muslim. In response, The New York Community Trust has committed half a...

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