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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy

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06/17/2014

... is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and ... collaboration and investment ‘beyond the rail.’ It ’s been a success by any measure: Since work on the...

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Economic Security

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

... school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can ... Justice Center, "can help districts do just that. It provides a catalog of effective...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Education

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NYCT Backs Legal Aid Program for Young Migrants

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09/23/2014

... officials. “The Trust is proud to help the City show how government and nonprofits can work together for children ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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The New York Community Trust

Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... Students Through College As data has made clear how many top-performing students from poor and middle-class ... college access. On Tuesday, a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on...

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Education

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United Way of New York City Releases 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standards

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12/02/2014

... (SSSR)—a study that establishes the new template for how we view economic self-sufficiency in New York City. In ...

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RPA, Ford and MasterCard Support Bogata Convening on World Philanthropy

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03/12/2015

... Representatives from government and civil society will convene at an event in Bogota organized by the Post-2015 ... of knowledge and data and identify opportunities around how philanthropy can engage in the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Ford Foundation

Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... and somewhat misleadingly known as “the arts” is how to build audiences for the future. Audiences for ... occupy one’s so-called leisure time, or what’s left of it . Looking at ways to solve the problem is a...

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Arts

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The Wallace Foundation

24 Feb 2016

The Art of Moving Research to Impact

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2:45pm to 5:00pm

... for impact raises a variety of questions, including: How risky should foundations be in setting targets for the ... public policy, scientific, and academic research share how they have artfully undertaken...

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Staying the Course: Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/13/2015

... family and RBF board. Staying the Course explores how RBF's grantmaking programs tried, "over time, to enlarge .....

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Citi Releases 2014 Global Citizenship Report

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06/11/2015

... Progress: Responding to Global Challenges, examines how Citi lends, invests and facilitates growth through core ... basic banking services for the two billion people who lack it to training the workforce of...

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Fusion OpEd Makes Case for New York Times Buying Bloomberg

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06/15/2015

... problem most of us can barely dream of. Namely, how will he fulfil his commitment to give away his $37bn fortune before he dies? It ’s harder than it looks. One possible...

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NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

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06/18/2015

... youth are charged as adults. This is greatly needed and it is needed now. We have seen many states grappling with the question of how to deal most effectively with juvenile crime. Almost all ...

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Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Brooklyn Org

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Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana

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07/09/2015

... Development in Ghana Today, more than 80 leaders will meet in Accra to discuss how to join forces to collectively implement the Post-2015 ... UN system, non-governmental organizations, and government ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy

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09/16/2015

... families to target where their area of concern exists, and how to best provide efficient philanthropic giving by ... to a head and further complicate the situation. Therefore, it is extremely important to...

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