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The Next Big Idea for the Next Decade: The Resilience Dividend

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08/21/2014

... her post: "In a conversation with The Washington Post' s Phillip Kennicott, I made the case for why building .....

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Community Development

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Washington Post Focuses on Carnegie Corporation Report

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09/05/2014

The Carnegie Corporation of New York report indicates that the high Common Core standards could possibly double the current high school dropout rate, unless learning environments are drastically changed.

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Rockefeller's Edwin Torres Joins the de Blasio Administration

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09/16/2014

Rockefeller' s Edwin Torres Joins the de Blasio Administration Edwin ... at the Rockefeller Foundation, will join Mayor de Blasio' s Administration as Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. ... Under...

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Former Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation VP to Lead LISC NYC

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09/18/2014

... than $2 billion to help revitalize some of New York City' s most distressed neighborhoods. Marks comes to LISC NYC ... of both the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and the bank' s Global Social...

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Uniting Around a Shared Vision: Philanthropy and Citizens United

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10/04/2012

... speakers served up several during Philanthropy New York’ s recent panel on the Supreme Court’ s Citizens United decision . The issue that resonated most ... on community voter registration drives. Yale...

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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

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03/27/2015

The Aetna Foundation will institute an open RFP for this new program.

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Proteus Fund and Proteus Action League Elect Three New Board Members

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07/08/2015

... coaching. Richard served as Executive Director of New York' s LGBT Community Center from 1986 to 2009. Natasha ... Advocacy & Policy is responsible for advancing the ACLU’ s civil liberties and civil...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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Ella Baff will Join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer

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07/15/2015

... Ella Baff, the executive and artistic director of Jacob’ s Pillow Dance Festival, will be leaving the organization to ... heritage starting in October. Ms. Baff has led Jacob’ s Pillow, established in 1933 in...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... between parents’ uneasiness about math and children’ s low math achievement. To read the full study, please go ...

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BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

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10/19/2015

BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women' s Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for ... way. The newest trend, however, is not just about a woman' s donation, it' s...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Ford, Carnegie, Bronfman and Others Support New Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good at Boston College

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10/21/2015

... Boston College Law School announced today. The forum' s inaugural event takes place on Friday, October 23, 2015, at .....

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

... the spirit of giving gets lost. Peter says of the op-ed’ s origins, “We’d been hearing, ‘How do you measure, ... bothering us for quite some time.” Not that there’ s anything inherently wrong with measuring...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

A smartphone app might help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida improve their daily self-management skills, which can help prevent skin wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health &...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible

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12/17/2015

... bill is a big step in the wrong direction for our nation’ s fiscal and economic health. "Prior to this deal, over ... for our fiscal and economic future. "Of course it' s good that we avoided...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)

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01/05/2016

... planning support that propels them into jobs. It’ s an innovative strategy to address very tough issues that ...

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Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’ s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations) It ... is increasing, and the middle class is shrinking. That’ s in addition to the long-standing, deep inequalities...

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Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’ s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully ... make financially responsible decisions and managing one’ s credit and debt are skills...

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Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

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01/26/2016

... 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there' s much less certainty about the size of these viral ... the Georgia Institute of Technology and one of the paper' s two senior co-authors...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in the U. S . place untenable burdens on an increasing share of ... we want is affordable clinical excellence, and that’ s what is distinctive about what we’re doing...

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