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Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century Foundation

Release Date:

07/22/2020

Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century ... public investment, enough to fill what we call a “ funding gap.” The remaining districts currently provide ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Education

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The Century Foundation

13 Nov 2025

Violence Against Women and Girls in Disasters: How Funders Can Fill Funding Gaps - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, November 13, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... discuss how philanthropy can step up to address gaps in funding . By the end of this webinar, donors will: Increase their awareness of the importance of funding holistic services addressing violence against...

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Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundations Fund ReImagina Puerto Rico Report

Release Date:

07/09/2018

ReImagina Puerto Rico calls for a focus on social well-being in all investments, making equity and inclusiveness a priority, ensuring transparency at all levels of policy making, and emphasizing coordination and collaboration. .

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

New York State Census Equity Fund Research Identifies New York's Hardest-to-Count Communities for 2020 Census

Release Date:

06/04/2019

... the federal government than they receive back in federal funding —a negative balance of payment greater than that of ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Census 2020

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Recording: PNY Health Working Group feat. Arturo Brito of Children's Health Fund (10.1.2025)

Health Working Group October 1, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Zoom Meeting ,Meeting Agenda Welcome & Introduction to Guest Speaker: Arturo Brito of Children's Health Fund Presentation & Discussion on Health Landscape on State-Level + Implications...

NYCT, NoVo on Short List of Foundations who Activiely Fund Domestic Violence Prevention Programs

Release Date:

09/29/2014

The philanthropic community has been slow to support domestic violence prevention measures.

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The New York Community Trust

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

MAC AIDS Fund Survey Shows Kids Don't Know Enough About AIDS

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12/05/2014

According to the report, 1/3 of American teenagers do not know HIV is a sexually transmitted disease.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

NYCT-Funded Unaccompanied Minor Initiative Lauded for Helping NYC Address Immigrant Issues

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02/11/2015

The fund provides legal defense, social and health services for unaccompanied minors.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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The New York Community Trust

NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

Release Date:

03/24/2015

New York Community Trust is partnering with the City Council and The Robin Hood Foundation.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

Release Date:

10/27/2015

Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.

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United Hospital Fund Report: Children's Behavioral Health Reform Depends on Solving Implementation Challenges

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11/10/2015

A new report that highlights four implementation challenges that must be solved as part of a successful redesign of behavioral health services for children in New York’s Medicaid program.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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United Hospital Fund

Ford, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, FB Heron Named to 2016 Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50

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08/01/2016

Mastering the balance between sustainability and change is why these 50 executives have been selected for the 2016 NPT Power & Influence Top 50.

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Howard Gilman, Laurie M. Tisch, Doris Duke and Mellon Fund Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Latest Project

Release Date:

10/18/2016

Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ latest project, Silent Voices, harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those who have been silenced or marginalized by social, cultural or religious circumstances.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Arts

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Howard Gilman Foundation

Doris Duke Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

Release Date:

11/02/2016

The results, published in the journal "Obesity," provide insight into whether the causes of childhood obesity lie primarily inside or outside of schools.

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Commonwealth Fund Publishes Report on Making Health Care Better for the High-Need Patient

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12/07/2016

High-need, high-cost "personas" distill key factors that affect patients' goals, motivations, & barriers to health.

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Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage

Release Date:

01/11/2017

This analysis of health plan premium growth in California’s insurance marketplaces, focusing on the policies that consumers actually purchased, finds that the average price paid for plans selected in 2014 was 11.6 percent less than the average price...

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

Release Date:

02/13/2017

... and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting Over the past ... Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

Release Date:

02/16/2017

In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), was summoned to the White House along with his peers from...

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Commonwealth Fund Explains Why the House Repeal Bill Is Unlikely to Stabilize Insurance Markets

Release Date:

03/13/2017

The ACA repeal bill may not offer the stability insurers will demand to return or to stay in the market long term.

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