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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... to distort the priorities of both civil society and public policy by elevating the priorities of the ... views on many issues differ from those of the general public . A future in which donors from the top .01...

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How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America

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08/29/2017

... types of business include not-for-profit companies and public organizations more interested in corporate social ... values like democracy and diplomacy — both in terms of public policy and on the business...

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Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

... with local youth and community stakeholders to turn public walls – in NYCHA developments and elsewhere – into public works of art. “It always turns out that those who ...

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Arts

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... job in the sustainable energy industry. She lived in public housing where crime was very high … and opportunity ... Force, which empowers young adults from New York City’s public housing developments with the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... social entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, and public officials around the world. We identify three ... of specific individuals or groups to the forefront of public awareness. An innovatorcreates an...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... in such projects) to design it. Though planned as a public park, the design also accommodated three outdoor event ... Conservancies, it’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of...

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Community Development

Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

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09/27/2017

... information not with the attitude that it was granting the public some royal benignity, but that those data sets and ...

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UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/02/2019

... universities, community colleges, high schools and the public . “The complexities of the modern Middle East are ... funding for Middle East programs is diminishing and public demand for expertise is increasing...

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

... Mr. Bagwell, a fledgling filmmaker, was hired by public television to work on a piece about a South Boston ...

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Social Justice

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$15 Million Gift and New Name for Community College

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04/29/2013

... Community College, one of the largest donations ever for a public two-year college. The foundation is giving an ...

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How our community colleges are falling behind

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05/23/2013

... of college or university in the United States? Is it big public research universities like UC Berkeley or the ...

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Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

... Open Society Institute Foundation. In recent years, when public opinion turned against the Kremlin, there was one main ...

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Reimagining Early-Warning Systems for At-Risk Students in NYC High Schools

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03/2013

... NYC High Schools from Susan Fairchild of New Visions for Public Schools discusses how policymakers and educators are ...

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The Possible Philanthropic Response to Trayvon Martin

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08/19/2013

... the Open Society Foundations and the Schott Foundation for Public Education are cited in a Nonprofit Quarterly article ...

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Social Justice

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Billionaires Wield Greater Power Through Charitable and Political Donations

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05/18/2014

... issues like climate change, gun control, immigration, and public pensions. And they are stirring controversy as they ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Bloomberg Donates $1-Million Genesis Prize for Fellowship

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05/23/2014

... on Thursday in recognition of his philanthropy and public service and said he would use the $1-million award to ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Religion

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Simons Foundation Gives Stony Brook University $25 million

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09/12/2014

... one of several large sums the pair has given to the public university in recent years. The Simons Foundation, ...

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Former Atlantic Philanthropies CEO LaMarche Questions the Power Philanthropy has over Policy

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09/25/2014

... the sheer power that foundations have on affecting public policy. He cites the tax breaks for endowments and ...

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Andy Warhol Foundation to Exhibit Unseen Work, Increase Focus on Grantmaking

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01/04/2015

... artist’s work — much of it previously unseen by the public — will be flooding university art museums and ...

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