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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

Release Date:

03/14/2016

The Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation are announcing today that their pilot program, Field Trip New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting educational field trips.

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Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers

Release Date:

04/04/2016

A grant program managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to adapt to rapidly shifting environmental conditions brought about by climate change.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

Release Date:

04/13/2016

A bill would compel the city to enforce labor rules for nannies and home health aides.

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Workforce Development

Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy

Release Date:

05/11/2016

Economic inequality is high and rising. At the same time, many governments are struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending for popular programs.

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Russell Sage Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... in partnership with the Brookings Institution. He also helped guide Rockefeller's program-related investments... .....

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

Release Date:

05/23/2016

Amateurish spies like James O’Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.

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NYS Health Foundation Grant Creating Tool to Assess Health Needs in Multifamily Housing

Release Date:

05/24/2016

Pilot program to create tool for assessing health and sustainability needs of existing affordable multifamily buildings.

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Housing and Homelessness

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New York Health Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

Release Date:

05/26/2016

About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied with their jobs, recent Commonwealth Fund survey findings show.

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Health

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Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology

Release Date:

06/07/2016

Film Independent Selects 10 Projects And 20 Filmakers For 2016 Fast Track Program And Awards $20K Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant To Mark Levinson For 'The Gold Bug Variations'

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Arts

New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

Release Date:

07/07/2016

The grant will help communities be better prepared against rising seas, flooding, and other natural disasters.

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Community Development

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

Release Date:

07/12/2016

Over the next three years, we will raise the minimum pay for 18,000 employees to between $12 and $16.50 an hour.

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20 Sep 2016

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Arts and Culture funders, come together to discuss what we see as the pressing issues in the field so as to inform our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months.

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Arts

A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

Release Date:

08/24/2016

Morehouse College in Atlanta recently secured $2.5 million from Jim and Marilyn Simons towards educating math and science students.

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

Release Date:

09/07/2016

New research suggests that school districts can stave off the summer slide by offering free, voluntary programs that mix reading and math instruction with sailing, arts and crafts, and other summer staples.

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

Release Date:

09/29/2016

The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

Release Date:

09/30/2016

Voluntary summer-learning programs can help narrow academic achievement gaps between children from low-income families and those from high-income families, a report from the Wallace Foundation and the RAND Corporation finds.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Governor Cuomo Announces Nearly $21.6 Million for Eight Supportive Housing Projects

Release Date:

10/21/2016

Funding to Support Construction of Housing for Homeless New Yorkers Including Veterans and their Families.

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Housing and Homelessness

NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

Release Date:

10/31/2016

It seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Ford's Darren Walker joined the board of PepsiCo, which makes the bulk of its money by selling sugary drinks and fatty snacks.

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

Release Date:

11/17/2016

The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work.

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New York Life Donates $500K Challenge Grant Toward Creation of Central Park's First Statues of Real Women

Release Date:

11/28/2016

... and allegorical figures). Elam said, "The real women who helped build this city, state and nation were nowhere to be .....

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Gender Justice

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New York Life Foundation

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