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Supported by NY Community Trust, New Research Ties Arts to Well-Being

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04/19/2017

The two-year study, by the Social Impact of the Arts Project at Penn SP2, was funded with $250,000 from the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust.

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Highlights Coal Communities in Latest Film

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05/01/2017

... groups is now facing the possibility of losing its federal funding , which would have a crippling effect on its ... decided to step in and help by providing the funding that the group stands to lose—and by...

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Environment and Climate Change

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... distribution, and logistics. Among other things, the funding from the financial services company and the JPMorgan ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Workforce Development

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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Education

A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

Newman’s Own was an early adopter of the idea of a philanthropic enterprise. Now, it’s helping to coalesce a new movement.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Clark Foundation-Sponsored Forum Considers How NY Nonprofit Contractors Can Address Late and Under Payment

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05/25/2017

... The problems continue to worsen as cuts in government funding are accompanied by rising costs. But these issues are ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... affordable housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding can have major repercussions, including whether or ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

Groundswell, a Brooklyn-based community arts nonprofit, partners with local youth and community stakeholders to turn public walls – in NYCHA developments and elsewhere – into public works of art.

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Arts

A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

There is a boom in Muslim-led nonprofit work that counters ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund.

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

A new nonprofit organization called The Greenfield Project will conduct research, do regulatory and legal analysis and education, and connect farmers to consumers, all with the goal of cultivating “a more joyful and resilient food system.”

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Food Systems

Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

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11/17/2017

... today that it will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to improve the health of vulnerable ... Hillman Emergent Innovation Program—will provide funding for early-stage prototype and pre-...

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Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

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The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

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01/16/2018

... Community Trust Gives $740,000 With federal and state funding for schools under siege, a leading group of education ... for all students; and work to ensure that schools have the funding they need. "New...

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The New York Community Trust

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Education

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Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

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02/02/2018

... to braid Medicaid dollars with other social services funding …. Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social ...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 2018 recipients of its Painters & Sculptors grants, which will provide 25 artists with $25,000 each in unrestricted funds. This year, the foundation said, 70 percent of the grantees identify as female...

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Salesforce.Org Expands Philanthropic Efforts to Improve Schools

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12/12/2018

... to New Leaders to help train principals and teachers. The funding is something of a departure for Salesforce, which in ... have been the biggest recipients , with Salesforce.org funding so far exceeding $50...

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