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Ruskay Reflects on 15 Years At Helm of UJA-Fed NY

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06/11/2014

... down at the end of the month as CEO of UJA-Federation of New York, cited the organization's mobilization in response to crises--from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to Hurricane Sandy in New...

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UJA-Federation Awards Over $1 Million in Scholarships

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08/27/2014

... Over $1 Million in Scholarships UJA-Federation of New York has awarded over $1 million in scholarships to more than 400 of New York’s Jewish students in financial need. Recipients ... both undergraduates and...

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NYCT Gives $7.6 Million in Largest Round of 2014 Grants

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10/07/2014

... Gives $7.6 Million in Largest Round of 2014 Grants The New York Community Trust is giving grants to nonprofits to ... arts to help schools meet Common Core standards; protect New Yorkers from mortgage fraud;...

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Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

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11/02/2016

... Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity New York City’s schools are among the most segregated in ... “implement and oversee efforts to reduce segregation in New York City’s public schools.”...

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Blast from the Past: Nonprofit Agencies Fearful on Reagan

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11/17/2016

... Past: Nonprofit Agencies Fearful on Reagan Philanthropy New York would like to thank TCC Group’s Richard Mittenthal for sharing with us this New York Times article from December 14, 1980. The fears were real,...

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... get “trapped inside the box” when considering new proposals, looking through the narrow lens of...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

Children whose mothers have not graduated from high school lag on economic, education and health outcomes, compared with children of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child Development.

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, and are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years

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11/05/2015

Analysis by Sierra Club finds decrease in CO2 from electric utilities, marking the first time the industry emits fewer than 2 billion metric tons since 1995.

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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

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07/05/2016

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.

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Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature

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02/17/2017

The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care, policing — remains elusive.

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

Limited-life foundations are based on the premise that if a foundation’s grants generate a social return, and that return compounds at a higher rate than its financial assets would, then making the grants sooner generates more social value than...

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Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

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06/01/2017

Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemployment. Yet, today more poor people live in the suburbs than in cities themselves.

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Economic Security

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement."

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