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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... American woman who has lived there for sixty years. All were there to answer the key question, “What is our ... from...

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

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01/12/2017

... Poverty Fix one city and you may change the world. After all , more people than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’ s population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how ...

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor' s Office in a Quest for Better Health Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy ... funding addresses the need to improve...

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

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03/29/2017

... and vacant land into useful community assets. The all -volunteer organization will debut a new recreational space and water harvesting cistern this ... TerraCycle®, and Target Corporation. The organization’...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative Autism has a strong genetic component. To ... a least an additional 300 are involved. But to identify all the genes at play, many...

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... Century Foundation from 2011 to 2014 and was much loved by all of us here at TCF. Janice was a warm and passionate ... and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the endowment...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’ s population – are covered by at least one comprehensive ... life- and cost-saving interventions, according to the new WHO report on the global tobacco...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... rooms for people who would be better served in treatment. New city police recruits have for years undergone some crisis ... intervention training, but a report last summer from the U. S . Department of Justice...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... had been convinced the providers would renew. After all , they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration took over, it became clear the ... more on top of things. In...

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The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... Volunteering ver the past decade, businesses of all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. In ... as corporate giving and volunteer programs, as well as new efforts such as impact investing and...

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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... forces traditionally dictate developmental agendas that, all too...

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... and those undertaking longer journeys. Most vulnerable of all are those who, like Mohammad, come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

Study: Giving Leads to Happiness The adage says it’ s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The ... there may be some biological truth to the maxim after all . The study showed that generosity changed...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ... brain works by focusing on a single behaviour shared by all animals: foraging. The...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something ... Three years later, researchers found that each of the new programs met all...

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that ... for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of...

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