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Goldman Sachs, Buying Redemption

Release Date:

10/26/2013

... Fund. Goldman Sachs is a master at making money. Lately it has become a master at giving it away. Goldman — for many a symbol of Wall Street greed and excess — wants the world to know it has...

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03 Apr 2014

Watchers of the Sky - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, April 3, 2014 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... book, A Problem From Hell, Watchers of the Sky takes you on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The ...

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The School That Will Get You a Job

Release Date:

02/13/2014

... that would fit right into a modern-day Ikea catalog. It 's also the name of a new high school on Chicago's South Side that is redefining what it means to be educated in the 21st century. Kids at the...

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If Pfizer Leaves NYC, Will It Start a Trend?

Release Date:

05/01/2014

If Pfizer leaves NYC, will it start a trend? WNYC reports. This week New York-based ... in the U.K. while keeping its Manhattan headquarters. It ’s a sign that the city could have trouble keeping other ... back to...

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Workforce Development

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Expectations High For Harlem Children Zone's New Head

Release Date:

07/07/2014

... Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, one of HCZ's funders. " It 's not an easy job— it 's a life commitment." HCZ is no stranger to lofty .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

Release Date:

08/01/2014

... New York even more successful." His suggestions: Make it easy to determine which providers are participating in each plan. Make it easy to compare plans. Reduce the overwhelming number of .....

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New York Health Foundation

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Atlantic Philanthropies Offers Best Practices For Winding Down

Release Date:

08/13/2014

... Philanthropies is working on giving away all its money, it 's taking in a great deal of knowledge that could be ... impact will endure beyond the existence of our foundation. It also means helping other...

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Foundation CEOs Need Candid Feedback to Succeed in Driving Change

Release Date:

09/02/2014

... work may look from some vantage points, the truth is that it is hard," Mr. Walker writes. In his letter, he remarks .....

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Communications

Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $5 Million to Universities for Innovative Programs Linking Academia and Policy

Release Date:

09/23/2014

... interaction among practitioners, academics, and students. It also gave special consideration to university programs ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Releases Report that Examines the Skills Gap in NYC

Release Date:

10/30/2014

The report is part of JPMorgan Chase's $250 million initiative, New Skills at Work.

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

Release Date:

12/04/2014

... and very likely things that could hit the city, and it ’s equally important that the city be ready for those. ... time. And they tend to keep doing things that way, because it takes a lot of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

Release Date:

12/10/2014

... effect of these cities working so closely with Google as it rolls out its fiber network in places like Kansas City and ...

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Technology

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation Joins Bipartisan Coalition to Change Criminal Justice System

Release Date:

02/20/2015

Other partners include Koch Industries, ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform and FreedomWorks.

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners

Release Date:

03/12/2015

... has perfected her grandmother’s mole sauce recipe so it ’s good enough that people would buy it . But she hasn’t figured out how to sell it . “We’re going to teach you how to take that amazing...

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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

Release Date:

04/03/2015

... adage is true, bad news may sell, but more often than not, it comes at a price. The constant avalanche of depressing ...

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Technology

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Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial

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05/01/2015

According to David Blumenthal, President of the Commonwealth Fund, it will be impossible to revolutionize heath care unless the security issues are addressed.

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