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The Restaurant Industry Is Structured on Racism. The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Wants to Rebuild It.

Release Date:

04/14/2021

... workers in crisis, and restaurants. Soon, the foundation’ s logo — two hands holding up a tray with a pineapple on it ... on after the pandemic has ended. Because the fund is so new , its steering committee is...

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Food Systems

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Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

Give Cash a Chance

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02/24/2015

... live in extreme poverty. As far as statistics go, that’ s a pretty bleak one. This situation is confounding when you ... on drugs and alcohol. Cash Works While more targeted funding focused on child care,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Century Foundation

Karen Davis Named to Lead Lipitz Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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12/03/2012

... Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care. She assumes her new position on January 1, 2013. "To say we are thrilled to ... "Her leadership, vision and expertise will form the new bedrock of the Roger...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

Release Date:

04/13/2015

... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities throughout the U. S . Since then, the program has distributed more than $27 ... and remains one of the...

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Arts

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Mellon Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

Release Date:

06/16/2015

... in and celebrate artists by offering flexible, multi-year funding in response to financial challenges that are specific ... Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April...

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Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology

Release Date:

06/17/2015

... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years. These foundations ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Overbrook Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

Release Date:

08/18/2015

... by the court to commission artwork to decorate its new building. At the time, some asked whether it was right to ...

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... financial institutions can help solve some of the world’ s social problems. Over the past decade, there has been ... as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach to funding...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

Release Date:

08/26/2016

... on-demand programming for participating cities, fund new research on innovations in city government, and launch an ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

Release Date:

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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Health

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... To Benefit Farm Animals Why is meat so cheap? McDonald’ s sells a McDouble burger for less than $2. A rotisserie ... checkoff programs that fund marketing (“Beef, it’ s what’ s for dinner”)...

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Food Systems

Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

Release Date:

02/02/2018

... A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools New study by The Commonwealth Fund highlights Medicaid ... social services as covered benefits under the state’ s Medicaid plan; 2) explore the additional...

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Health

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

Release Date:

12/12/2018

... to apply for residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. “Thanks to Mitchell’ s vision and our own desire to continue to be responsive to ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for Change

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01/29/2019

... Chime for Change will be supporting the following six new projects: Equality Now, Global Fund for Women, Ms. ...

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... groups and a conference to inform the development of new curricula and teaching models on the Middle East and ... histories and cultures that are poorly understood in the U. S .,” said Ali Behdad, director of...

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Mellon Foundation

Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023

Release Date:

02/16/2023

Let’ s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023 By: Walter ... health (Zimmerman 2020). There is an urgent need for resources and funding . Nowhere is that truer than in rural ... the line...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Cathleen Colvin and A.J. Caro Appointed to Long Island Community Foundation Board

Release Date:

02/01/2013

The Long Island Community Foundation recently named two new members to its Board of Advisors—Cathleen Colvin of the ... Project Finance Department of Shearman & Sterling in New York ,...

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05 Jun 2013

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Superstorm Sandy

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

This Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders will focus on current workforce ... in response to Superstorm Sandy and the opportunities for new investments in impacted communities...

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18 Jun 2013

Social Impact Exchange: 2013 Annual Conference on Scaling

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 9:00am to Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 3:30pm

Museum of Jewish Heritage - Battery Park 36 Battery Place, NYC

... how cross-sector collaboration is taking social impact to new levels. Attend sessions about scaling initiatives that are revitalizing U. S . cities, the effects of networks on aggregating capital and spreading...

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26 Jul 2018

Interested in Working in Philanthropy?

Thursday, July 26, 2018 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York hosts group informational interviews to explore career ... Music Programs at The ELMA Philanthropies Services (U. S .), as they discuss career path experiences in both the ...