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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

... next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more ...

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Food Systems

Bloomberg Philanthropies and others Redefine Arts Funding

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05/18/2018

... they start? What is the proper level of risk tolerance? How does proposed programming—to use Barr’s definition of "relevance"—acknowledge "social, .....

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Arts

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20 Oct 2023

Funders Working Group for New York’s Newcomers

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 3:30pm

... City and State. The group meets remotely on Fridays, and will continue on a weekly or bi-weekly basis as long as members find it useful. How do you sign up? 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Program To join...

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Immigration

Grantmakers Should Seize the Moment to Support Racial-Justice Solutions

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10/10/2014

... Funders need to seize on this moment by examining how their own priority areas intersect with the needs and ... the foundation's social justice initiatives. Additional Resources : Security & Rights...

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15 Apr 2010

Sexual Violence Prevention: NYC Community Based Organizations at the Forefront of Interventions for Families, Workplace and Neighborhoods

Thursday, April 15, 2010 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... is a deep-rooted problem that knows no boundaries. It cuts across age, race, ethnicity, gender, and class. ... advocacy and community mobilization. The briefing will feature presentations by nonprofit...

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Funder Recommendations Meet City Leader Action

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06/02/2014

... year, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen announced that the City will indeed overhaul its workforce training programs. How closely aligned are the de Blasio Administration's new ... the City is headed and whether...

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PNY News

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Workforce Development

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Backs Program to Address Patient Safety

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03/23/2015

... its interprofessional team-based curriculum to all health professions programs. The $600,000 grant aims to ensure that all health care professionals who are UNE graduates are equipped with ...

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Health

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Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

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11/02/2016

Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving How important is Judith Rodin? Ask one of the 20,000 New York ... with the mission of aiding humanity, and grants funds to health , environmental and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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The Teagle Foundation Awards Grants to Colleges and Universities Nationwide for Novel Humanities-Focused Programs

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06/08/2023

... represents our commitment to helping young people learn how to think, how to listen to one another, and how to engage ... integrated into the Gen-Ed requirements at ten campuses. It...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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18 Apr 2017

Mobilizing for Mission - On Grassroots Climate Change

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Washington, DC and contemplate action on the issues they care about. Mobilizing for Mission will convene funders to confidentially share what they’re ... brainstorm what action makes sense for your foundation...

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Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

... designed to help foundation leaders gain the tools and resources to work towards equity internally and externally. ... Race Equity is a high challenge/high support space that will help participants recognize...

The Rockefeller Foundation Commits $20 million in COVID-19 Assistance to Strengthen Global Pandemic Preparedness and Support Vulnerable Communities

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03/19/2020

... for those in need. The Rockefeller Foundation will also provide key assistance and support in the cities where it operates, especially Bellagio, Italy; New York, NY; ... basic needs, and globally, too many...

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TCF Senior Fellow Barton Gellman Wins Third Pulitzer

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04/30/2014

... program. Gellman, who led the Post’s coverage, based much of his reporting on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, ... beyond what anyone had imagined. The Century Foundation will continue to be deeply engaged...

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Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

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06/24/2014

... principals’ performance,” said Wallace President Will Miller. “To strengthen this critical role, this new initiative will require districts to rethink how their central offices are organized...

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Study: Metabolism Protein Found to Also Regulate Feeding Behavior in the Brain (JPB Foundation)

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02/26/2016

... which acts in the brain to help control consumption. “ How much a person eats is regulated by a complex circuit, and in order to understand it , we need to identify all the molecules involved...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Health

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this “non-coding” RNA is actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold ...

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Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

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09/05/2017

... and so, inevitably, is national interest. But Harvey will leave a huge amount of wreckage behind, some of it invisible. In particular, we don’t yet know just how much poison...

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Community Development

Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to ... United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will develop theories of...

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Health

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 ... percent, both lows rarely seen in the past half-century. How is it that the aftermath of 2008 could do so...

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