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Six Recommendations for Shifting Philanthropy Forward

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11/28/2016

... In the wake of the elections, philanthropy faces a new future. This is always true when a new administration takes over. But this year the implications ... your corpus to work. Grant making alone may not fill...

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12 Jul 2012

Education Working Group Lunch: 2013 Reform Review Project

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Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... invested more than 2 billion dollars in efforts to reshape New York City’s schools. While some foundations based outside the City have been major donors, New York City-based foundations also have been invested...

Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)

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01/05/2016

... find a vegetable farm at a public housing development in New York City. But a one-acre farm at Red Hook Houses—the first-ever large farm on New York City Housing Authority property—is growing ... cabbage,...

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Joan Guzik Joins United Hospital Fund as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality Institute

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01/19/2017

... as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality Institute New York, NY - Joan Guzik has joined the United Hospital Fund ... Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey and prior to that...

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Propel Capital’s Sarah Williams Honored by The Center for Court Innovation

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03/19/2018

... of L&L MAG, who served on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform ... to philanthropy; Quardean Lewis-Allen, who is offering new opportunities for disconnected...

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De Blasio unveils 60-person transition team

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11/20/2013

... Foundation; Ana Oliveira, President and CEO of the New York Women's Foundation; and Darren Walker, President of ... that he says will advise him in the formation of his new administration. The list is a...

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Mayor must focus on city's resiliency

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01/03/2014

In an op-ed for Crain's New York Business, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith ... Blasio Administration must focus on the city's resiliency. New Yorkers expect two things above all from our mayor:...

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Citi Lets Viewers Vote With a Click for a Sports Group

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02/09/2014

The New York Times examined Citigroup's new philanthropic effort (part of its Olympics sponsorship) .....

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

... including initiatives from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable ... the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. About 37,000 new math and science educators will...

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... journalists, and people who have spent time in prison. NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today awarded $1.25 ... individuals working to curb mass incarceration and develop new approaches to ensure...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... the nation’s health-care system. The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation will announce a ... next month, the Peterson Center on Healthcare. The new organization boasts a boldface-name...

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Bill de Blasio’s Mayor’s Fund Raises $120K for Two Murdered NYPD Officers

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12/29/2014

... announced this morning that the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City has raised $120,000 for the families of two ... fund, led by Mr. de Blasio’s wife, is also urging more New Yorkers to support initiatives...

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Tow Foundation President Emily Tow Jackson Supports Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age

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01/20/2015

... Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age New York state should raise the age that youths can be tried ... director and president of The Tow Foundation, based in New Canaan, Conn. Tow Foundation...

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... Applicants The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2015 up to ten Prizes ...

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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for Libraries

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04/06/2015

... With a presence in every neighborhood of every borough, New York City’s 207 branch libraries are among our most ... billion in sorely needed capital improvements, there is no new funding for branch libraries...

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Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

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04/27/2015

... that prepare low-income youth for today's workforce. A new component of Citi's Pathways to Progress initiative, the ... youth in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Newark, St...

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Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers

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06/08/2015

... The company has selected six nonprofits—three in New York City and three in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan ... will complete predevelopment activities for several new housing initiatives that could create...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor, has agreed to donate...

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... AIDS Epidemic In July 1981—35 years ago this month—The New York Times ran a now infamous headline: “Rare Cancer ... It was the first news article about a mysterious new disease that came to be the HIV/AIDS...

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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

... priorities, and the physical accessibility of its New York headquarters. The foundation does not plan to start a new program on disabilities, wrote Darren Walker, president ...

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