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[Women's Health Foundation] More than half the members of the New York City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to local groups here. Recipients include the New York Women's...

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Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires

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06/04/2014

[The Rockefeller Foundation] Foundations just make grants, correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector.

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

... Enrollment Findings from a new long-term study of small high schools in New York City show the approach may not ... college, but it may also cost less per graduate. These small schools shared some key...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... LaGuardia for five years through the company’s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a program offering management ... entrepreneurs. The gift will nearly double LaGuardia’s small endowment and, Ms. Mellow said...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards

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05/20/2015

... honored alongside fellow winners New York Foundation ( Small Private Foundation), Open Society Foundation (Large ... Foundation (Corporate Foundation) and Needmor Fund ( Small Private Foundation).... Brooklyn...

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Andrew W. Mellon and Doris Duke Charitable Foundations Support Creation of New Musical Works

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07/15/2015

... programs, supporting the creation of new works for small ensembles. CMA will distribute a total of $475,000 to ... this year reflect the diverse array of styles performed by small ensembles in the U.S. today,...

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Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles

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09/12/2017

... in New York City say this is a golden age for their small -scale brand of theater. But that doesn’t mean they ... another city in the world where you have 130 shows in small theaters?” he asks. . . Off-Broadway...

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PhilTV: Partner Buy-In Is More Likely When a Funder’s Long-term Commitment is Clear

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12/21/2016

... the full session. It runs 1 hour 47 minutes. Additional resources from the program can be found below: Schott ...

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Open Society Foundations Announces $50 Million Gift to ACLU

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11/07/2014

... of incarcerated people, build political capacity in early primary states ahead of the 2016 election, and focus on three ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Report Calls for Reform in Light of Abuse of Girls in Juvenile System

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07/10/2015

... Girls’ Story,” found that sexual abuse was among the primary predictors of girls’ involvement with juvenile ...

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Landing High-Profile Employers Is Nice, But of Little Help to Those Who Need Opportunity The Most

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09/05/2017

... begging for votes in these final days leading up to the primary election on Sept 12. But as we prepare to head to the ...

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LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

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09/06/2017

... at square tables in a college classroom here poring over primary and secondary sources about the civil rights icon ...

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

... are a lot of compass points in between. What I think the primary need is right now is for original, independent news ... media no longer generate piles of money for relatively small groups of investors, our...

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Unbound Philanthropy Adds New Staff

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07/02/2012

... rights of immigrants and refugees and to support their integration into receiving communities, has promoted two ...

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New Book from Atlantic Philanthropies Explores ‘Giving While Living’ Approach to Philanthropy

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09/18/2017

... death penalty and reducing the number of children without health insurance in the United States. Securing life-saving ... Viet Nam develop a more equitable system for delivering health care...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Reaches Landmark Closure of 318th U.S. Coal Plant, on Track to Retire All Coal Plants by 2030

Release Date:

09/15/2020

... pounds of coal burned – and has improved air quality and health outcomes for communities around the country. Beyond ... resulted in an estimated annual savings of $3.6 billion in health care...