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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

The New York Public Library has won $500,000 for an internet access project from the Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.

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New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

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09/05/2017

... Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects We didn’t need World Water Week last week to ... are currently seeking $9.5 billion for 89 water management projects , according to a new report...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms As sea level rise ... Guidelines (commonly known as WEDG) that aims to make projects more resilient, while also making the waterways more ... and...

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Video: MetLife Foundation's Financial Inclusion Challenge Winners and Projects Profiled

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10/15/2015

... Foundation's Financial Inclusion Challenge Winners and Projects Profiled in Video Essay Chris Townsend, Head of ... Foundation's Financial Inclusion Challenge Winners and Projects Profiled .....

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Awards $100,000 for Community Arts Projects

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06/25/2014

... R. Dodge Foundation Awards $100,000 for Community Arts Projects ArtPlace America has received $100,000 from the ... totaling $14.7 million to support "creative placemaking projects that will work in 79...

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Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...

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NoVo Foundation

Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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NYPost Investigates Immigrant Support Projects of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation

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02/21/2017

NYPost Investigates Immigrant Support Projects of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation New ... fear deportation... NYPost Investigates Immigrant Support Projects of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation ...

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To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

Release Date:

06/23/2020

... sectors. The odds against change are steeper still when projects require legislative action and can be bottled up by ...

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Moyer, New York Life Foundations Announce National Memory Board Project

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11/29/2013

PND reported that the Moyer Foundation and the New York Life Foundation will partner on a national initiative to increase awareness of childhood bereavement and the need for children's grief support services.

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Brenda Henry-Sanchez Joins the Foundation Center as Director of Research for Special Projects

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07/01/2013

... has been appointed Director of Research for Special Projects at the Foundation Center . In her new position, ... directing international, national and regional research projects on a wide range of issues...

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Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud

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04/12/2017

Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches New Digital Innovation Project for European Cities

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06/25/2019

Cities will Receive Support to Advance Cutting Edge Digital Services and Data Practices

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects The Rockaway Youth Task Force has a long waiting ... Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects ...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

Geropsychologist Lauren N. DeCaporale-Ryan, PhD, works at the University of Rochester Medical Center, but her focus isn't on patients. She works with those staff in the psychiatry, medicine and surgery departments.

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19 Apr 2016

New York City Human Services Career Ladder Project

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us for a discussion with the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) and the Human Services Council (HSC) about an exciting new project to develop a sector-wide career ladder program for 80,000...