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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the endowment, and laying the ... we are today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Janice’ s family and friends on this sad day...

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... the Visual Arts, which gives it access to much of Warhol’ s work. Flavor Paper borrows a wide variety of imagery from ... inspiration. Some papers, such as Flowers, Elvi and the new Ali, have a distinctly...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... rooms for people who would be better served in treatment. New city police recruits have for years undergone some crisis ... intervention training, but a report last summer from the U. S . Department of Justice...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

Rockefeller Foundation’ s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’ s WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership ... delicious out of...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation of two new advisory councils stocked with heavy hitters from the ...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’ s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. ... to organizations and programs in the Bay Area. (Google’ s parent company had revenue...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... Persist At Capital Region Schools In the Capital Region' s three major cities, school districts continue to see ... where 42 percent of white students passed the state' s 2017 English language arts...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration took over, it became clear the ... more on top of things. In particular, he felt the board’ s treasurer, a well-known CFO of...

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How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America

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08/29/2017

... has gone beyond Silicon Valley and Google’ s gender problem. The current impersonator-in-chief would ... Moreover, the geopolitical business scene is changing, and new business-related immigration policies...

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... in East Harlem gets a facelift every few months — a new mural painted by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed ... Aztec symbols, for example, and a piece devoted to women’ s rights on the barrier that hides...

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Community Development

Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... who hold them, yet they can strongly influence someone’ s behavior. A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... 49. (You can see the final station maps on the city’ s website.) Citi Bike will also add...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format for charity, EmojiMeals features ...

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Children, Youth and Families

From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... mandates and economic planning models often reduce India’ s poor to a...

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International/Foreign Affairs

A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory

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09/11/2017

... Helpings of Culinary Theory During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But ... Mr. Stedman added that about 6,000 attended this year’ s Taste Talks—around three times...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Facebook and want to help? You don’t even have to open a new tab. Many of you may have seen the prompts from Google ... Philanthropy. The center hopes to satisfy the public’ s need to help in the immediate...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... built vast cities. We appropriate about half the planet’ s accessible fresh water and nearly half the desert-free land ... to hundreds of “dead zones” along coasts. (This year’ s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is...

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize competition. The ... there in places like Africa and Latin America, and it’ s really tough to do that," says Rolf...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

Report Finds U. S . Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit think ... CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’ s...

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