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16 May 2018

Funding a Racially Just Food System - Funders Briefing Hosted by Community Food Funders

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... with fast food and corner stores, but lacking healthy food options . Our food system needs a redesign if it’s to feed ... How can the funding community best leverage its resources and influence to end racism in...

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Food Systems

How Rapid Assessments Can Help the Shift from Response to Recovery

Release Date:

05/13/2021

... working to understand how to most effectively deploy our resources beyond crisis response. Emerging market countries ... fearful and hopeful about. We also knew we had to take a new approach to this. Given the...

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Insights

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EMPower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities

Release Date:

08/11/2015

... Disparities Geography is a clear determinant of health disparities for patients, as chronic conditions such ... Graham, MaryLynn Ostrowski and Alyse Sabina write in a Health Affairs blog post. "A person...

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Health

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Sloan Foundation Announces 2016 Research Fellowships

Release Date:

02/25/2016

... Research Fellowships The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City has announced the selection of a hundred and ...

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Science

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Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform

Release Date:

03/18/2016

... Thursday the members of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. The ... the possibility of closing Rikers Island during her State of the City...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Justice Reform

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The New York Women's Foundation

Rausch and Long Island Community Foundations Partner to Expand Tourism in Riverhead

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... expanding tourism — which includes drawing visitors from New York City and promoting Riverhead as a place people plan ... in April at Hotel Indigo East End to discuss the current state of the...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Attends White House’s First South by South Lawn

Release Date:

10/05/2016

... plus Angélique Roché and Teresa Younger from the New York -based Ms. Foundation for Women and Moira ... Labs. Waiting to go through security, we chatted about the state of women in tech, our...

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Gender Justice

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American Cancer Society Honors Dave Hattem of AXA at 54th Annual Gala on Long Island

Release Date:

10/20/2016

... Gala of Hope held at Fox Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York on September 22nd, 2016. Hattem leads AXA’s law ...

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Health

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Equitable Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Largest Funder of Tobacco-Control Efforts in the Developing World

Release Date:

12/05/2016

... World Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York has long been a champion of anti-smoking efforts in the ...

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... the water during her swim lesson at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx one recent Tuesday morning, Kiara ... children are finding their way into the water. And in New York City, they...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... Investigation Brushing aside objections by ExxonMobil, New York 's highest court has opened the door for state officials to demand that the oil giant's outside .....

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... the White House confirmed Tuesday. The breakfast in New York next Monday will be held against a backdrop of ...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... Disasters Like These When superstorm Sandy struck my home state of New York in 2012, it dealt a severe blow to communities that were ...

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Community Development

As the Clintons Step Back From Global Stage, Bloomberg Steps Up

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... United Nations General Assembly, a place where heads of state , celebrities, billionaire philanthropists and business ... campaign, Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and...

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Report: Most NY Colleges Comply with Sex Assault Law

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... Most NY Colleges Comply with Sex Assault Law A majority of New York ’s colleges and universities are handling instances and allegations of sexual assault in accordance with the state ’s “Enough...

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Gender Justice

Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New York City nonprofit was established in 1986 to honor the ...

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Food Systems

Policy Brief: NYC’s Looming Task of Property Tax Reform

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... states’ gun laws. Almost no one, however, denies that New York City’s property tax system is profoundly flawed. That ...

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