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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

The project, called “The Women’s Building,” will offer office space for organizations advocating for women and children, and will serve as a global hub for people working on those issues.

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Justice Reform

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NoVo Foundation

With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool

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06/08/2017

... found that nudges often yield particularly high returns at a low cost when it comes to boosting retirement ...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Public Policy

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Commonwealth Fund: In the Healthcare Aftermath

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08/02/2017

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always needed fixing. Now that the Congress has tried and failed to repeal and replace it, the time for repair seems at hand.

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore office of the...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration quietly announced a policy reversal: In the coming year, schools will once again be forced to hire teachers that no other school has wanted to hire.

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Education

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

New York City officials have announced that all 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily lunch. This came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address...

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Giving Could Plunge $13 Billion Under Tax Plan, Nonprofit Leader Says

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09/28/2017

... meaning millions fewer taxpayers would itemize their tax returns . That change could reduce the value of the charitable ...

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Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals

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10/10/2017

A class-action lawsuit filed last week against New York City alleges the city is violating the rights of parents who have intellectual disabilities.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Disabilities

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... they will be fired based on the firm's financial returns . "If a CEO has invested in CSR and the firm performs .....

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday

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10/17/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the return of its #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday campaign, which aims to drive awareness and donations to a diverse cohort of 20 local nonprofits.

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

... on mission-related investments to match the financial returns with social strides... Fast Company Names Ford ...

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

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03/18/2019

... technology that absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean, usable water. The breakthrough, ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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NY/NJ Area Common Application

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04/2014

Philanthropy New York and the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers (CNJG) spearheaded a project to develop common application and report forms to help streamline the grant application process and ease the often time-consuming grant preparation process.

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New Member Spotlight: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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12/11/2009

... to collaborate with industry experts to maximize our impact . A good example of this is our research consortium ...

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Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question

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08/05/2009

... chooses to spend out, there are helpful individuals and resources at the ready. The Beldon Fund case story, “Giving ... about foundation missions and opportunities for impact and, whatever the conclusion,...

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Build Trust With A Purpose Statement

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12/05/2016

... to this pressure? The development of new social impact initiatives, the communication of a company’s ... volunteer-managed, open source website of information and resources about the fourth sector provides a...

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

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09/21/2017

... food waste, save their families money, and conserve resources to protect our planet." "Walmart has worked with ... hotspots and knowing whether strategies are having impact . "It is good to see...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Time To Revisit Reporting

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... benefit from capacity support, field connections, or other resources that the funder could offer. Grantmaker learning to ... requirements necessarily eat into our grantees’ finite resources , Project Streamline...

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