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F.B. Heron Foundation Funds Feasibility Study on Impact Investing in Western NY

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02/11/2015

... NY Western New York foundations and businesses have long invested their capital into growing the region. But ... with Western New York leaders to determine the region' s economic potential for impact...

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Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion

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07/06/2015

... The Studio Museum in Harlem, whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, ... Plans for the new building, which will occupy the museum’ s current lot near Adam Clayton Powell...

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Ford Foundation

Ten New York Nonprofits Selected as Semifinalists of 2015 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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08/04/2015

... practices among nonprofits in the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester. Three winning organizations will ...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... Feminism What does feminism mean to you? For a long time, I did not consider myself a feminist. In fact, for ...

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Gender Justice

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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

... between the ages of 45 and 54, reversing a decades- long decline.1 The authors largely attribute this reversal to ... 2016, the New York Times followed up on Case and Deaton’ s findings with an analysis...

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Health

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Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'

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02/10/2016

... Washington gets set to scrutinize President Barack Obama' s final budget plan, there are signs the public is increasingly seeing the government' s long -running budget deficit with...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Public Policy

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

... social movements I learned about as a kid — from women' s suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, ... leaders and social reformers who paved the way for today' s activists. In Social Movements...

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

... Street, where she helps oversee the nonprofit group’ s pro-democracy programs in Eurasia. The Foundations are the ... donor to liberal causes, including Hillary Clinton’ s Presidential bid. Soros, who has...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Capital One Foundation Sees Departure at the Top, Appoints New President

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06/09/2016

... has undergone a change in leadership, with former long -serving President Carolyn Berkowitz stepping down to ... president of community affairs, overseeing Capital One’ s U. S . grant funding,...

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

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09/07/2016

... on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children During their long , languid summers, lots of children forget the lessons ...

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Education

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South' s Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late ... blacks its research shows were killed by lynching...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

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01/27/2017

... Aleppo in December was a turning point in the country’ s civil war. But rebel Aleppo didn’t just fall—it fell ... siege and surrounded on all sides, to hold out for as long as a year. Instead, faced with an...

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

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03/20/2017

... Fraser P. Seitel, confirmed the death. Chase Manhattan had long been known as the Rockefeller bank, though the family ...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’ s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts On the wall in Mike Basher’ s office at Chester’ s Fare & Square, there’ s...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

... in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’ s clear the Trump era will be cruel to women. The President ... and Congress have proposed draconian cuts to the nation’ s most effective health, nutrition...

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

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08/25/2017

... Future of Philanthropy Hang around the philanthrosphere long enough and you'll realize that it' s something of a matriarchy. Sure, most of the biggest ... half of all foundations are run by women,...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... and Charlotte Park first spent a summer in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, because “Jackson Pollock and Lee ... by saying, “this is such a great place to work, there’ s a really strong community here,...

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

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08/30/2017

... more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’ s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt; and his family’ s foundation since the think tank’ s founding in 1999. That ... voice in policy...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 49. (You can see the final station maps on the city’ s website.) Citi Bike will also add seven “infill” ... to fill out thin parts of the bike-share network in Long Island City. The expansion in Astoria comes...

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