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Bloomberg Philanthropies

05 Jun 2014

Cesar's Last Fast - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, June 5, 2014 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... followed by a screening of the documentary Cesar' s Last Fast and a brief panel discussion. ( Having trouble viewing the trailer ?) Cesar’ s Last Fast is a multi-platform feature documentary film ... of...

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New York Botanical Garden Gets $28M Windfall Donation

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06/05/2014

... Gets $28M Windfall D onation To commemorate Gregory Long' s 25 years as head of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, the nonprofit' s board set out to raise $25 million fund in his honor and...

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Arts

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Leon Levy Foundation

Bloomberg Takes Public Innovation Initiative to Europe

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06/13/2014

... “I believe cities are the solutions to most of mankind’ s problems,” Bloomberg told representatives from 21 ... for 9 million euros ($11.8 million) from his philanthropic foundation . “It’ s...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Economic Security

Education

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Huge Gap Found Among States In Long-Term Services Quality and Access

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06/20/2014

... a new report by AARP, The Commonwealth Fund, and the SCAN Foundation . Eight states—Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, ... Wisconsin—provide the best care by nearly all of AARP’ s measures. Kentucky, Alabama,...

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Aging

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NYSCF's Cutting-Edge Research Explored In New York Times Magazine Cover Story

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06/27/2014

NYSCF' s Cutting-Edge Research Explored In NY Times Magazine Cover Story The New York Stem Cell Foundation ' s (NYSCF) cutting-edge research and pioneering efforts to .....

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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Kathleen Regan To Join Commonwealth Fund As Executive Vice President and COO

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07/09/2014

... COO Kathleen Regan will become The Commonwealth Fund’ s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on ... 1, 2015, succeeding John E. Craig, Jr. She will join the foundation in November to facilitate...

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"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

... researcher to the president, The Commonwealth Fund, on the foundation ' s blog. The two write that "if more and more" new .....

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Michael Hirschhorn To Step Down From IHRFG

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08/07/2014

... Schools and a Visiting Non-Profit Executive at Yale’ s School of Management. He also serves as President of the trustees of the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation , and is on the the boards of several ...

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The Next Big Idea for the Next Decade: The Resilience Dividend

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08/21/2014

... writes Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation , in a blog post that originally appeared on ... her post: "In a conversation with The Washington Post' s Phillip Kennicott, I made the...

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Community Development

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Philanthropy Must Lead With Its Heart

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02/19/2015

by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Co-Presidents, The NoVo Foundation This post originally appeared in the Chronicle ... and at nearly the same time, to become stewards of a large foundation we’ve called the NoVo...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

07 May 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 7, 2015 -

5:00pm to 8:30pm

In the 1960' s , ready or not, change was coming to America. A new ... In Collaboration with Part of Philanthropy New York' s Documentary Film Series . The Black Panthers: Vanguard .....

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

03 Jun 2015

NYC Early Childhood Mapping Convening

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 -

9:00am to 4:00pm

... the systems that support them. Join us for a convening of foundation representatives and City officials to identify ... interventions. To ensure that your organization’ s current investments, priorities, and...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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Human Services

Children, Youth and Families

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New York City

10 Dec 2015

Crisis Communications: How to Think, Advise and Respond During Tough Situations

Thursday, December 10, 2015 -

8:45am to 10:30am

Is your foundation ready for the next big media crisis? The one issue ... that might cause the most damage to your organization’ s reputation. How can we prepare and anticipate the next ...

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Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth Fund Quoted

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... in Pennsylvania that was blocked in 2009 by that state' s former insurance commissioner, Joel Ario. Eric ... withdrawal of Boston hospital company Partners HealthCare' s plan to acquire South Shore...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... Washington wonk career path. After earning a master’ s in public policy from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in political ... full-time and got a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation . In 2010 he launched...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... Living, and Rehabilitation Research, the Verizon Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. . . Verizon ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Appointments & Transitions

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Verizon

Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

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12/14/2015

... Officer and he joins Andrus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ’ s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. ... social issues including for young men of color. Erik' s...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Andrus Family Fund

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using ... the corrected tissue had been derived from the patient’ s own cells, it could...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Doris Duke Foundation

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’ s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes They are four ... the only doctor for half a million people in Sudan’ s Nuba Mountains; a Pakistani advocate for indentured ... of the Carnegie...

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