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The Century Foundation

Research Funded by William T. Grant Foundation Aims to Show Why Some Veterans Go Hungry

Release Date:

05/30/2019

... Hungry A new study seeks to understand why some veterans experience food insecurity, having little access to healthy ... fellow at the University of Houston's Department of Health and Human Performance,...

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William T. Grant Foundation

Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules

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08/20/2015

... gone right with Obamacare. The rollout of the state-run health insurance exchange went relatively smoothly and registered patients at a clip well ahead of the national average. ... some surprising wrinkles...

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Media Development Investment Fund Launches Blended-Value Media Loan Fund

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11/16/2016

... medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the media sector with high social impact – outlets that provide the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies – and pay investors .....

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Media Development Investment Fund

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Communications/Media

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FORE Announces $4.8 Million in Grants That Support Innovative Solutions to Ending the Opioid Crisis

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02/01/2022

... progress in addressing the opioid crisis — including how to reduce stigma, generate more timely and actionable ... by offering training to professionals in the fields of health care , criminal...

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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Will Distribute $2.5 Million Recovered Through Lawsuits Against Sham Cancer Charities

Release Date:

06/21/2019

... charities thinking their donations would help aid cancer patients in need . Instead, James Reynolds and his family members ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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The New York Women’s Foundation Creates Collaborative Fund To Support Justice Reform for Women and To Help Dismantle Mass Incarceration

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10/19/2018

... and families in all phases and aspects of the justice system . Key among the priorities will be closing Rikers ... “As a public foundation rooted in and led by community experience , we have both a moral and...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Long Island Community Foundation Along with National and Local Donors Join Collaborative Charged with Closing the Racial Wealth Gap on Long Island

Release Date:

02/27/2020

... Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative in 2018 to pool resources and develop a grantmaking strategy to address the ... residents. This research was vital to establishing the need for a coordinated and long-...

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Community Development

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Long Island Community Foundation

15 Apr 2020

Supporting Immigrants During the COVID-19 Crisis - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... like other marginalized communities. Industries in which a high percentage of immigrants are employed, such as food ... are facing challenges to their financial stability and the need to pivot critical...

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Immigration

Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job: A Landscape Scan of Assessment Tools

Release Date:

08/02/2018

... challenges and adapt to changing contexts, nonprofits need , first, to be able to gauge organizational health . This can prepare them to build the internal capacity ... assess the health of a...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation

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12/11/2015

... of grants. For example, very young children in foster care need a boost to keep from falling behind in school. “Our ... Jenny says. “And research shows that only a fraction of high schoolers...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

The New York Community Trust

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Two Distinct Types of NY Funders are Gearing Up for Redistricting, Here’s Why

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03/03/2021

... and the equitable distribution of government resources . A whole lot of funders across New York State came ... saw population growth and upstate communities continued to experience significant population loss...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Joan Colello Named Trustee Emeritus, Fatima Shama and Kenneth Halcom Join Pinkerton Foundation Board

Release Date:

02/27/2019

... leaders,” said Smith. “They bring a wealth of experience and wisdom, but above all they share a deep ... Scholars Program—that engages several hundred talented high school students from under-resourced schools...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Releases Report on Grantmaking to Create Impact

Release Date:

09/17/2015

... Paulette LoMonaco recalls, Good Shepherd lacked the resources to build some of the core systems and practices ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education Leaders Release National Plan to Prepare Community College Students for Clean Economy Workforce (Bank of America Charitable Foundation)

Release Date:

01/20/2016

... heads of state met in Paris for the COP-21 to address the need to curtail climate change and eliminate greenhouse gas ... engineering and math (STEM) will require education beyond high school, including that...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Education

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... train more social workers to strengthen the delivery of health care services in the United States. NYCT will award the two ... two fellows to Washington, D.C. to directly engage in health...

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The New York Community Trust

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COVID-19 Long Island Philanthropic Response Fund Provides Half a Million Dollars in Grants to Long Island-Based Nonprofits

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04/21/2020

... Foundation announced today that 36 Long Island-based health and human services organizations responding to the ... As the needs are much greater than our current resources , we are requesting contributions to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Long Island Community Foundation

Guardian Life Insurance of America Supports Dental Lifeline Network's Volunteer Dentist Recruitment Efforts

Release Date:

02/17/2020

... volunteer dentist recruitment efforts, expand coordinated care , and support the Will You See One Vet campaign. DLN ... medically fragile, or living with disabilities. Most patients of these patients...

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

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We are In a Time of New Suns

Release Date:

10/19/2022

... climate change as outside the scope of their mission and resources , but still believe that it’s an urgent problem ... it. Here, we see an opening. We invite funders to consider how each of us can enter the...

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Insights

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Environment and Climate Change

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Unbound Philanthropy

UBS Announces $10 Million Commitment To Support College Success

Release Date:

06/20/2014

... aims to empower students with the skills, knowledge and experience needed to succeed in college and compete in the ... Scholars, an academic program that gets low-income public high school students to and...

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