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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

Release Date:

07/20/2017

... leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty ... investors and service providers—to expand access to financial services and advance economic...

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Citi [Corporate]

Skoll Foundation

NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... Reentry Institute at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice authored a report – “Women InJustice” – which looked at the role gender plays in the criminal justice system. Since then, the movement to close...

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The New York Women's Foundation

City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... families. IDVs were introduced into the New York criminal justice system in 2003; the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, a nonprofit service provider, found that, ... leaving victims without at least some...

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Children, Youth and Families

A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project

Release Date:

02/28/2014

... easier for citizens to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent. The unusual nomination for the Nobel Peace ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

Release Date:

05/17/2014

... physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of dollars paid to some specialists, there is a startling secret ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

Release Date:

11/10/2014

... from bankruptcy by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to spare retirees from deeper pension cuts and ...

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Ford Foundation

Foundation to Move Funds to Detroit Pensions

Release Date:

11/12/2014

... Detroit Pensions Exactly how will millions in private dollars in the "grand bargain" make its way into the city's .....

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Ford Foundation

Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

Release Date:

12/18/2014

... attention and advocacy to stem the loss of billions of dollars that go into company coffers, instead of helping the ...

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Surdna Foundation

Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Nonprofit Claims by For-Profit Colleges

Release Date:

10/06/2015

... Colleges Each year, more than half a billion tax dollars have been flowing to four educational institutions ...

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Education

The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times

Release Date:

10/13/2015

... actors,” continues to hand over tens of millions of dollars every month to other forprofit schools that have ...

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The Century Foundation

Helmsley Charitable Trust $8.4M Gift Began the Process to Improve Care For Heart Attacks

Release Date:

06/09/2016

The American Heart Association has recognized three South Dakota hospitals and one ambulance service with quality achievement awards for heart and stroke care.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail Three thousand dollars . The price of a cheap used car, a decent college ...

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Justice Reform

Dodge Foundation’s Daggett in NYTimes: Auction of Airwaves Could Transform Media

Release Date:

11/28/2016

... off a big chunk of the public airwaves. Billions of dollars are likely to change hands, a windfall that could ...

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Communications/Media

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

Release Date:

12/05/2016

... Foundation has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and enlisted partners around the globe—from large ...

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

NYC Secures $80.2 Million from State Funding Competitions for 112 Projects Across City

Release Date:

12/09/2016

... Economic Development Council competitions for state dollars six years ago. All told, Cuomo announced the awarding ...

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Community Development

Century Foundation Releases Report on Strengthening Protection of Patient Medical Data

Release Date:

01/11/2017

When Americans seek medical care, they expect privacy surrounding their medical records. But the world of information is transforming, and there hasn’t been any change in U.S. health privacy laws since 1996.

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The Century Foundation

NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park

Release Date:

04/21/2017

Randall’s Island Park Alliance announced that it has been awarded a 175,000 dollar grant from the New York State Health Foundation to provide funding for free health and wellness programming at Randall’s Island Park, with a focus on increasing...