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The Sozosei Foundation Announces New Grants to Decriminalize Mental Illness

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04/18/2022

... Communications; Improving Access to Community-Based Mental Health Care ; Research; and Scaling What Works. Today, the Foundation ... to identify and nurture innovative ways to care for...

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Human Services

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2019 Scholars

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07/01/2019

... promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health . The selected Scholars will receive grants of up to ... topics in cancer, immunology, and neuroscience—including how novel genes originate and evolve...

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Science

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Giving Circles in Cross-Cultural Context

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11/14/2013

... to be experiencing new momentum, perhaps due in part to high -profile conversations about collective giving inspired ... circles have on their members, no matter who they are, how much they give or what they...

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Building long-term partnerships with nonprofits to scale impact: Lessons from sustained funding relationships

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10/25/2021

... other reading barriers with the accessible materials they need to read, learn, and build independent lives. Long-term ... and advice on devices for reading content, and offer resources for digital literacy. A...

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Dale C. Christensen, Jr. Elected to Board of United Hospital Fund

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11/01/2013

... law. He also brings to our board his knowledge of health care and experience as a trustee of Lutheran Medical Center. We are ...

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21 Oct 2013

Sandy Bus Tour Site Visit – The Rockaways and Long Beach, L.I.

Monday, October 21, 2013 -

9:00am to 5:00pm

... these communities more resilient long-term. Insights into how despite misconceptions about suburban communities being ... ways groups responded and built capacity despite limited resources . Lunch – provided by...

Most Funders Don’t Think About Disaster Until It Strikes

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07/05/2016

... West Virginia , our first reaction is to determine how we can best help those impacted. Our second thought ... a complicated question with no single answer. There are resources , however, to help funders start...

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Capacity Building Across Borders: Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers Network

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02/07/2012

... York members participated in this opportunity to focus on how we define and approach “capacity building” in an ... will influence how organizations can allocate program resources . Even the...

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GoVoteNYC Fund in The New York Community Trust Announces $1 Million in Grants for Voter Engagement

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04/26/2022

... York Community Trust has announced $1 million in grants to nine nonprofits for nonpartisan get-out-the-vote education ... a robust nonpartisan infrastructure for consistently high voter participation in the...

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The New York Community Trust

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Ford Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies Join Governments and Private Funders to Announce Historic Pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities

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11/01/2021

... risk, according to an announcement made today at a high -level World Leaders Summit at COP26. “We are ... local communities manage half the world’s land and care for an astonishing 80% of Earth’s biodiversity...

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Pinkerton Promotes Jill Bregenzer to Chief Operating Officer

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01/05/2024

... partner in managing the Foundation’s financial, human resources , and administrative affairs,” said Smith. “Her ... forward for young people involved in the criminal justice system or after years in foster...

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The Aetna Foundation Launches Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge to Empower Local Group Efforts

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04/06/2018

... The Aetna Foundation, together with the American Public Health Association and the National Association of Counties, ... genetic code. Where you live impacts what foods you eat, how you exercise, how...

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New York Foundation Releases: What Happens When Communities Organize Through a Crisis?

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06/17/2020

... out—to identify what’s not working, to say what they need , and to problem solve. The city is at its best when its ... sense of purpose and collective power. We know from recent experience —September 11, 2001,...

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Community Development

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... hope that eye diseases might one day be treated with patients ' own edited tissue. With the aim of repairing ... cells, it could potentially be transplanted without the need for anti-rejection drugs. The...

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Rachel Pardoe of The New York Community Trust is one of New York Non-Profit Media's 40 Under 40

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04/12/2018

... to make life better for vulnerable New Yorkers. What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of ... job in the nonprofit sector involved working in a mental health clinic and counseling families...

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The New York Community Trust

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United Hospital Fund Explores the Struggles of Family Caregiving

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07/31/2015

... provide so much unpaid help because their loved ones need many types of assistance that are hard to get from one ... said Carol Levine, director of the families and health care project at the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Satellite Data & AI to Accelerate Economic Development and Climate Resilience in Africa

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08/29/2022

... emerging economies. "We want to develop tools to measure how infrastructural developments such as roads, electricity ... economic and societal wellbeing. Atlas AI has extensive experience building...

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Scientists to Create a "Gut Cell Atlas" with Funding from the Helsmley Charitable Trust

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10/25/2019

... distinct cell functions and interactions in human health and Crohn’s disease. Helmsley’s Gut Cell Atlas ... the cell types in the human body and little is known about how cells function and work together in...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Boutiques for the People

Release Date:

09/27/2016

... used as a derogatory label for labor-intensive – or “ high -touch” – programs that cannot be scaled up in their ... (HLLC) at Rutgers University-Newark similarly offers the experience of a small college within...

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