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Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage

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08/29/2017

... a series of bills to help reduce the number of smokers in New York City by 160,000 by 2020. While smoking rates in New York City have declined from 21.5 percent in 2002 to...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs

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02/01/2019

... . In close to 15 years of public service with the City of New York , Torres-Springer has led three agencies with over 3,000 ... opportunity and more equitable communities for all New Yorkers...

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A Response to Louisiana Recovery Efforts

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08/22/2016

... Obama declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement ... recovery. Organizations accepting donations: The Greater New Orleans Foundation , in partnership...

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Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

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12/14/2015

... joins Andrus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. He has ... New Jersey organizations working at the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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EAC Network Teams Up with Bank of America, Long Island Community Foundation for “Fresh from the Garden” Senior Initiative

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03/15/2017

... the launch of the social service agency’s brand new Fresh from the Garden program to provide at-risk ... is promoting the power of good nutrition to kick start the health of older New Cassel...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Food Systems

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health . The study also found that excess weight in childhood ... programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2019 Scholars

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07/01/2019

... whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health . The selected Scholars will receive grants of up to ... of pain, and how maternal interactions influence neonatal...

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Health

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20 Sep 2012

Luncheon Program with John Feather, Grantmakers in Aging

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12:00pm to 2:00pm

... year and beyond. John will also announce an exciting new initiative with implications for the way people age in ... for people throughout the country A Philanthropy New York Collaborative...

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A Coalition to Move de Blasio Along on Bus Rapid Transit

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06/09/2014

... bus rapid transit system of at least 20 routes in New York City. Now there’s a coalition intent on making sure ... the Transport Workers Union, the Association for a Better New York...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

... True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave Years after New York lawyer Sherman Day established a charitable fund to help ... Would Mr. Day want to expand the mission to cover this new wave of...

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The New York Community Trust

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

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03/21/2016

... Way’s Women’s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it’s ... raised nearly $1 million in support of the United Way of New York...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... and volunteer service, support LGBTQ causes in New York City. Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to ... programming and services that directly benefit LGBTQ New Yorkers. This...

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RFPs Etc

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Gender Justice

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force employers ... the nation’s largest city, according to research by the New...

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... morning to discuss issues related to higher education in New York , especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are college-ready and successful once they enter ...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... from the Atlantic Ocean “into the broad mouth of lower New York Bay between Coney Island, New York , and Sandy Hook, New Jersey.” This could often be ...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

... Detroit Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York -based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform ... to Detroit neighborhoods. Ross, a Detroit native and New York...

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Community Development

Housing and Homelessness

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York , the college-success program she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The...

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Westchester Community Foundation Announces Institute for Strong Nonprofits

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09/26/2017

... one of the largest funders of nonprofits in Westchester, New York , has announced the formation of the Institute for Strong ... www.wcf-ny.org . The Foundation is a division of The New...

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... harvesters might be tending fresh veggies soon thanks to a new crowdfunding effort by the New York City Housing Authority. Most of the Rockaways was a food ...

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