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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

Release Date:

10/10/2017

In November, voters statewide will face a more expansive question — whether to amend the State Constitution to allow towns to use small pieces of land in the “forever-wild” preserves in the Adirondacks and Catskills for small, but critical public...

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Environment and Climate Change

Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are “Staggering,” Says New Report

Release Date:

10/10/2017

A new report by international experts draws significant linkages between industrial food and farming practices and many of the “severest health conditions afflicting populations around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a range of cancers and...

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools

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10/13/2017

New York City’s Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November.

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

Release Date:

10/18/2017

... prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection— building a website to make them available to researchers and ...

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Arts

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Wallace Takes Arts Organizations From What They Think to What They Know

Release Date:

10/24/2017

... of scaling. Broadway World alerts us to the foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability (BAS) research series. ...

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Arts

SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia

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11/27/2017

The report touches on universal themes—among them, the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the importance of contingency planning by nonprofit executives and boards, and the need for funders to support nonprofit overhead—its natural focus was on...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

Release Date:

11/28/2017

MetLife Foundation and ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design lab, created a partnership to innovate financial services based on the latest research from the science of human behavior.

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Economic Security

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Morgan Stanley Announces Creation of Innovative Play Spaces for Children in 14 Cities With KaBOOM!

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02/02/2018

... this year. With our partners and volunteers we will be building two physical playgrounds in Boston and Atlanta and ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Morgan Stanley

ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications

Release Date:

03/08/2018

... to arrive at four unique perspectives on the importance of building smart communications skills for leadership. ...

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Video

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Communications/Media

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Open Society Foundations

ComNetwork NY

JPMorgan Chase Releases 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report

Release Date:

04/26/2018

... significant, long-term initiatives in key areas – building skills for today’s high-quality jobs, expanding ...

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Civic Engagement

Community Development

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

Release Date:

04/26/2018

The South Orange Performing Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to advance its arts education program.

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Arts

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The Hearst Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

Release Date:

05/07/2018

The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.

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Education

Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows

Release Date:

07/24/2018

Hundreds of changemakers working to solve pressing inequality issues around the world.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5.4 Million to Help Standardize Clinical Data

Release Date:

09/04/2018

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in New York City has announced a $5.4 million grant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) in support of the Texas-based consortium's efforts to standardize clinical data and...

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Health

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Michael R. Bloomberg Partners with Commissioner Arias Cañete to Support European Transition from Coal Power

Release Date:

09/18/2018

Together Bloomberg Philanthropies and the European Commission will convene leaders from the financial and business sectors to further develop financially actionable strategies for a low-carbon transition and aim to highlight the economic...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

MetLife Foundation and MicroSave Launch "i3" Program in Vietnam

Release Date:

11/16/2018

MicroSave and the MetLife Foundation launched the “i3” program at an event in Hanoi on November 14, aimed at improving the financial health of low- to moderate-income communities around the country.