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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What lessons can it offer? The Fund’s founding brothers represented an ...

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... by the way some of our grantee partners were changing how they saw the people they serve, who are commonly seen as ...

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Video

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Community Development

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

... the capital and making more grants later — but how would we know, asks a report from the Atlantic ...

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JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million

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05/11/2017

... $150 Million JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced that it will expand the firm's commitment to Detroit’s economic ... will see Detroit’s comeback as a shining example of how...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women ... by body armor, camouflage face paint and smoke grenades, it was almost impossible to...

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Gender Justice

A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems

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05/30/2017

... — open a cell biology textbook and almost everything you will find has been discovered in yeast or E. coli lab ... to fill this gap by discovering the principles of how microbial communities form and function...

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Health

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing When it comes to bank philanthropy, the biggest story over the ... whether or not a low-income family finds housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a ...

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Science

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are college-ready and ... CUF is set to release a report in the next few weeks that will describe the key...

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Education

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

... equitable neighborhoods and communities — and learning how to turn ideals into outcomes. PLACES Fellows: ▪ Are ...

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism Sometimes it ’s the smaller foundations that take on the most ... are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the philanthropic or NGO sectors...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. He hopes these small tasks will be a foundation for a future career. Carpenter is one in ...

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The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

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08/25/2017

... the philanthrosphere long enough and you'll realize that it 's something of a matriarchy. Sure, most of the biggest ... Mesch, director of WPI. “Fundraisers who don’t know how to raise money from...

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... the subways, closing Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable crises are ... and taking the path of least resistance. This isn’t how it ’s always been...

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Housing and Homelessness

Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’

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08/29/2017

... that she had posted the letter publicly “because I found it to be a stark reminder of the ongoing politicization of ... for federal funds. Bowen’s project aims to explore how environmental factors such as...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot

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08/31/2017

... situation. He has been peppered with questions about how far the review will go to cleanse New York of potentially offensive figures ...

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Community Development

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... eight-part minidocumentary series on service years, watch how McKay transformed her future by participating in a ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... already large racial wealth gap, far from narrowing, will grow ever wider in the years to come, absent policy ... report bears the ominous title “The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Gap is Hollowing...

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Economic Security

Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — asking how they were addressing the crisis. . . Amid Opioid Crisis, ...

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