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Why Philanthropy Should Help Strengthen Community Colleges

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04/17/2014

... rates remain dismally low. Attention at all levels has turned to preparing young people to succeed in college. ... require three 80% of 4th quartile (high) income earners has a 4-year degree while only 10% of...

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Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities

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09/29/2014

Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities The World Health Organization estimates that traffic incidents will be ... which funds programs to address other global public health concerns such as tobacco use,...

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Jewish Board Inherits $75 Million in Deals from FEGS

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06/03/2015

... in Deals from FEGS Another Jewish social service agency has replaced FEGS as New York City’s largest social service ... February that it would close. With the new behavioral health programs transferred from...

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New York Botanical Garden Partners with MetLife Foundation for Healthy Families Program

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09/21/2015

... Botanical Garden, with support from MetLife Foundation, has developed The MetLife Healthy Families Program to expand ... focus on helping visitors improve their cardiovascular health . Visitors can enjoy...

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14 Dec 2017

Funders Summit on Justice Reform: The Nation’s Eyes on Rikers

Thursday, December 14, 2017 -

9:00am to 3:30pm

... strategies for breaking down political, logistical, and financial barriers. Philanthropy New York’s ad hoc Justice ... necessity of seeking community input – and the lack of resources dedicated to the task –...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... Gift of its Kind Ever The Simons Foundation has given the University of Hawaii at Manoa $40 million—the largest gift of its kind the university has ever received— or marine life research. UH Manoa .....

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Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

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05/05/2016

... of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation Surdna has an idea: Give more ownership of companies to workers. ... offers the best way to alleviate poverty. Surdna has taken a close look, and published a...

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With Support from Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers at UIC Identify Master Molecule Behind Corneal Inflammation

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07/12/2017

... outer layer of the eyeball. But without blood vessels, it has long puzzled researchers how this tissue becomes inflamed after trauma or infection. ... during and even after a herpes virus infection has...

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Opinion: Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause

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08/30/2017

... never dropped below 73 degrees. You can probably guess how many previous times that had happened: Zero. This sort of heat has a specific effect on storms: Warmer weather causes ... evaporates into the air, and...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... Ending Poverty And Homelessness "Social entrepreneurship has proven to provide impactful innovations for poverty ... poverty seemed absurd a generation ago. Today, the idea has been enshrined officially...

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Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?

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09/20/2017

... help—are doing much better these days. The question is how much credit he deserves for it. The percentage of New Yorkers living in poverty has declined significantly for the second year in a row, ... meaning...

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New York City Issues Ambitious Climate Action Plan

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10/06/2017

... Ambitious Climate Action Plan Mayor Bill de Blasio has released a comprehensive plan outlining how New York City will attempt to comply with the goal of ... by 2050. To keep to the 1.5 degrees target, New York...

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Shake Shack Founder on Changing The Way Restaurants Do Business

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10/10/2017

... of decades, chances are a restaurateur named Danny Meyer has had a big impact on how your meal went. Since he opened his first restaurant in ... and Shake Shack, the burger joint he opened in 2004, has...

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Polly Singh Promoted to Program Officer at Wallace Foundation

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03/01/2012

... Singh, a Program Associate at The Wallace Foundation , has been promoted to the post of Program Officer in the ... the foundation as an administrative assistant in 2002, has been a Program Associate in the...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which ... set of problems. A case in point is JPMorgan Chase, which has dramatically shifted its giving over...

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OSF Leaving Hungary Under Government Pressure

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05/15/2018

... become impossible to work in Hungary, whose prime minister has blamed Mr. Soros for the country’s problems, and that ... and legal pressure from Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has stifled dissent and...

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Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats

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06/25/2018

... Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune ... power. Mr. Bloomberg — a political independent who has championed left-of-center...

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Kathryn Snyder and maisha quint to Lead Criminal Justice Grantmaking Strategy at The Libra Foundation

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08/25/2019

... Libra Foundation The San Francisco-based Libra Foundation has announced the hiring of Kathryn Snyder , Senior Program ... As a senior advisor at Tides Advocacy, Snyder provided financial , programmatic,...

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