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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Bloomberg Philanthropies Partners with CARE to Support Women Small Business Owners in East Africa with Village Savings and Loans Associations

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02/23/2022

... encourage financial inclusion and independence by pooling resources and providing low interest rate loans. The ... VSLAs work, providing entrepreneurs with access to banking resources and capital. Through this...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Economic Security

Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative Launches New Racial Wealth Equity Database

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09/15/2022

... inequities have had to use our organizations’ critical resources to search for and access needed data to support our ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

We are In a Time of New Suns

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10/19/2022

... climate change as outside the scope of their mission and resources , but still believe that it’s an urgent problem ... a few examples: IRAP works in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council and...

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Unbound Philanthropy

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Supports Initiative to Eliminate Veteran Homelessness in the United States

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02/19/2015

The foundation is partnering with the Zero: 2016 initiative to end homeless in 71 U.S. communities.

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Veterans

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Bank of America Announces $300k to Boost Workforce Skills Among Local Youth, Veterans and People With Disabilities

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06/20/2016

... of Long Island, Glen Cove Boy & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc., Grenville Bakers Boy & Girls Club Inc., La Fuerza ... The Viscardi Center Inc. and United Veterans Beacon House Inc. Bank of America...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Workforce Development

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

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02/16/2017

... of Health and Human Services), was summoned to the White House along with his peers from throughout the fledgling ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Surdna, JPB Foundations Provide Grants to Help Low-Income Communities Access Solar+Storage Solutions

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03/29/2017

Seven community-based nonprofits and affordable housing developers have been selected to receive grants from Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Leadership Initiative , as part of the Resilient Power Project, to build their organizational capacity...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Freedom Together Foundation

My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation

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09/07/2017

... with Obama Foundation My Brother’s Keeper, a White House initiative that later spun off into a separate ... MBK, arguably one of Barack Obama’s most personal White House initiatives, was launched to address...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters.

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Education

Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/03/2017

... Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them worried they’re about to be dissolved. The ... Although members of the groups have reached out, the White House has not responded. . ...

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Education

New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over landlord-tenant disputes, about 30 people stand in line, waiting to speak to a clerk. They’re representing themselves in court.

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Housing and Homelessness

Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?

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10/10/2017

Reports last week that the number of home foreclosures in New York City had returned to levels last seen at the onset of the Great Recession left many housing experts scratching their heads.

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Housing and Homelessness

JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhoods.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Deborah Wright as New Managing Director for U.S. Jobs and Economic Opportunity

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07/30/2018

The Rockefeller Foundation today announced that Deborah Wright has been named managing director for the Foundation’s U.S. Jobs & Economic Opportunity initiative.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Trinity Church Wall Street Names Beatriz de la Torre as Chief Philanthropy Officer

Release Date:

04/17/2023

... housing, including the refinancing of St. Margaret’s House – a 249-unit subsidized apartment building that ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance

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12/12/2012

... by Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute and the World Resources Institute to increase the transparency and ... Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute, and the World Resources Institute with funding...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

New York State Health Foundation Releases New Reports on the Potential of Accountable Care

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04/10/2015

In New York, 27 provider organizations are now participating in Medicare's Pioneer ACO program.

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully?

Publication date:

08/2015

... they intend to give away all of their philanthropic resources within a specific, limited timeframe and then close ... their grantmaking. But most hope that by exhausting their resources in relatively short order, they will be able to ...

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4 Organizations Team On Mapping Tool For U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Release Date:

09/20/2017

In a collaborative partnership, Global Impact, Blackbaud, the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center have developed and launched a resource to support organizations in aligning and tracking charitable giving to the United Nations (U.N.)...

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