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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... Cities to Build Greater Resilience Judith Rodin’s new book, The Resilience Dividend, begins with her surveying ... as ours,” she writes, “we have no choice: we must all work to build greater resilience.”.....

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Disaster Relief

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Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System

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04/06/2015

... changes that will reshape the delivery of health care for all Americans. The grant will support Community Catalyst's ... to assess the financial complexity and risk involved with new models of care. The...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

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06/18/2015

... how to deal most effectively with juvenile crime. Almost all of them have come to the same conclusion: adolescents are ... them and doesn’t work for public safety. In fact, only New York and North Carolina put...

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Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa

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07/20/2015

... of women and youth. Youth account for 60 percent of all Africans unemployed, according to the World Bank, with ... of Africa’s youth living on less than US$2 per day. The new partnership will address these...

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Children, Youth and Families

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

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08/27/2015

... ranged in age from their late 20s to early 40s— and all had served time in prison. The fourcredit course was part ... campus, Columbia professors and students teach classes at New York City’s Rikers Island...

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Justice Reform

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown University scientists report evidence ... you about what to do next, but you remembered to get them all done... Alfred P. Sloan...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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John A. Hartford Foundation: 'Hospital at Home' Prevents Complications

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10/13/2015

... of a host of other problems for patients. "We all know that hospitals can be very dangerous places for ... program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation, a New York City–based private philanthropy...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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NY Observer Highlights Many PNY Members as Area’s Most Generous Companies

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10/28/2015

... Pfizer, Johnson&Johnson, Goldman Sachs and IBM named by New York Observer as region’s most generous companies. ... a manufacturer and an information technology firm, all household names. While only one of...

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Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality

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11/09/2015

... Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality Under a new strategy announced today, the Ford Foundation will double ... June, when the grant maker announced that it would direct all of its work toward reducing...

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... Health System for the Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on ... principles for improving care for this population—and all patients—starting with identifying people...

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The Nation Details Eric Holder’s Appearance at Ford Foundation

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12/14/2015

... were at the forefront of the public consciousness, from a new assault on voting rights to the Black Lives Matter ... these issues, likening his tenure to Tupac Shakur’s “ All Eyez on Me.” Holder is an...

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... the entire Philadelphia Media Network (PMN), which runs all three of the outlets, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The institute ...

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Communications/Media

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... rotating staff members and collecting and analyzing data, all with the goal of helping to close the achievement gap ... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century...

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... The Tow Foundation has awarded $75,000 grants to six New York City theatres to support a playwright of their ... of their sponsoring organizations to learn about all aspects of nonprofit theatres. . . Tow...

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Arts

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IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

... engineering and mathematics fields. IU is among 25 new members to join the center. Membership will include both ... and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. All Center for the Integration of...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... like: “There is no such thing as good guys and bad guys. All people do good and bad things, including you. You can ... the description offered in Baz Dreisinger’s intriguing new book, “Incarceration Nations.”...

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Justice Reform

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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... trying to live authentically in their true gender. A new report reveals transgender women and all women of color frequently face discrimination when ...

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Gender Justice

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... the "threshold" to the ISS to perform vital research. All of the mission is connected to various scientific ... is launched. The microbes are now the focus of a brand new research partnership between...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

Release Date:

11/01/2016

... he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be ... that approximately 1.3 billion tons, or one-third of all man-made food,...

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