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Nudge Your Grantmaking: Applying Behavioral Science Insights to Enhance Program Impact

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12/13/2017

... awarded behavioral economist Richard Thaler this year’ s prize for economics for “integrating economics with ... assumptions in social program development. In Thaler’ s words: “In order to do good economics...

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The New York Community Trust

Small Victories in Affordable Housing? We'll Take it!

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01/19/2018

... up for modest homes in working class neighborhoods. Here’ s a new stat: a recent lottery for 297 affordable apartments ... gentrification and secondary displacement. Also, exactly what is “affordable”??? It...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... Aeris expects to be collecting data from 250 loan funds by 2018 . Joining Aeris is the Global Impact Investing Network ...

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... in Event on the STEM Workforce In the United States, it' s estimated that 75 percent of all jobs will require STEM ... Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) expertise by 2018 , with similar trends...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awards $100,000 to Harn Museum of Art

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04/20/2017

... of its exhibition The World to Come opening September 18, 2018 . The primary focus of The Andy Warhol Foundation’ s grant-making activity is to support the creation, ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years

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06/19/2017

... boost from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act' s taxes. But the decrease of federal spending on healthcare under the GOP' s American Health Care Act would cause harm in the long-run. ... when...

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Success Academy Boss Eva Moskowitz and Charter Leaders Demand Answers on Space Requests from de Blasio

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09/07/2017

... to them on space requests for the school year starting in 2018 . Moskowitz and other charter school leaders said they ...

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Education

NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... The next phase of the site—expected in February 2018 —will also include specific quality metrics for ...

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New York Health Foundation

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With DSH Cuts Looming, Cuomo Must Decide How to Allot Fewer Dollars

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09/13/2017

... the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’ s 16 percent of New York’ s total allotment and the largest cut, in terms of dollars, ... program, which are supposed to total $43 billion between ...

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’ s Far West Side Amazon.com Inc. plans to open an office on ... building that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.' s new eight-acre development, Brookfield...

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Community Development

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... that a group opposing Mayor Jason Gonzalez’ s decision to eliminate funding for nonprofits from his proposed 2018 city budget said that “recall efforts to have him ...

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New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show

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10/10/2017

... Chocolate Factory, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon, The Band’ s Visit, The Lion King, and The Phantom of the Opera. More ... 7,500 tenth grade students to a show during the 2017– 2018 Broadway season, with aims of a...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... 4, in East Harlem and District 7, in Queens, for the 2018 -2019 school year. In fall 2019, the program will come to ...

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President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

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01/26/2018

... imbalance has been a major topic of discussion at the 2018 edition of the exclusive forum, a reckoning fueled by ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Gender Justice

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’ s next President, effective March 2018 . Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as ... poet, and scholar, is recognized as one of the nation’...

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Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... our long-standing support of Rise Against Hunger’ s work to help eliminate food insecurity. Last year Pfizer ... including Peru, Italy, Philippines, South Africa and the U. S ., helped to reach Pfizer’ ...

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