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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education to explore how its member institutions can...

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a ... are honored to support them and look forward, not only to how they will use their...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

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06/18/2015

... We have seen many states grappling with the question of how to deal most effectively with juvenile crime. Almost all ... them and doesn’t work for public safety. In fact, only New York and North Carolina put...

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Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Andrus Family Fund

The David Rockefeller Fund

Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... Health System for the Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower costs for “high-need, ...

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At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality. “In the ... and the notion of income inequality is central to how he conceives his administration. . . At...

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Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’

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04/18/2016

... The day of discussion arrives on the heels of a new national study in which only 29 percent of physicians surveyed reported having formal training on how to talk to patients and families about end-of-life care...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... Philanthropies provides a behind- the-scenes look at how four cities are using temporary public art projects to ... between the arts and civic leaders. View the Upstate New York video here . Bloomberg...

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

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11/01/2016

... he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be ... movie will aim to shed light on the grim numbers that show how much food is...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... by the way some of our grantee partners were changing how they saw the people they serve, who are commonly seen as ... We hosted a series of conversations with a dozen New York City nonprofit service delivery...

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Video

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Community Development

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New York Foundation

Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they have ...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new , IBM-facilitated (NYSE: IBM) citizen science project by ... interaction with human biochemistry and determine how that interaction may contribute to...

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IBM Corporation

Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable crises are always being ... and taking the path of least resistance. This isn’t how it’s always been in our city. When the...

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Housing and Homelessness

Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... Unemployment in Black and White The recent finding by The New York Times that black students are still vastly ... nation’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how little the country has managed to do...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a ... that provides paid parental or family leave. Given how good paid leave is for children,...

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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... good choices about when and where to receive care, and how much they might expect to pay for that care. Despite ... health care cost transparency website, will empower New Yorkers from across the State to plan...

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New York Health Foundation

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

... (Meanwhile, some members are also wrangling over how they can stabilize Obamacare.) On Wednesday came a ... one of his favorite causes. In a Wednesday op-ed in the New York Times, the former presidential...

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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... eight-part minidocumentary series on service years, watch how McKay transformed her future by participating in a ... called Green City Force, which empowers young adults from New York City’s public housing...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit think ... report bears the ominous title “The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Gap is...

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