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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

Release Date:

11/02/2016

... year, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Paul von Hippel, an associate professor of public affairs at the LBJ School, examined body mass index...

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Russell Sage Foundation

Charles H. Revson and Stavros Niarchos Foundations Announce Launch of NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

Release Date:

02/09/2017

... Library Supervisor, Sunset Park Library branch, Brooklyn Public Library, announce the 4th annual NYC Neighborhood ... to celebrate the essential role of New York City's 207 public libraries in communities...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... & Programs More than a year-and-a-half after the Fund for Public Housing officially began soliciting donors, the ... Kirmani-Frye, the founding president of the Fund for Public Housing, said the nonprofit...

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Ford Foundation and Citi Fund Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation

Release Date:

10/17/2017

... in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation The New York Public Library’s renowned Schomburg Center for Research in ... renovations to the center — a vital part of The New York Public Library that has for 90...

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Community Development

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Citi Foundation

Communications During a Disaster: Five Lessons Learned

Release Date:

11/23/2012

... Michael Hamill Remaley, Vice President of Communications & Public Policy, Philanthropy New York No matter where you ...

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Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway

Release Date:

03/27/2017

... Family” against a control group of people who watched a public service announcement entitled “Truth over Fear: ...

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Video

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Palau to Sign National Marine Sanctuary Into Law; Bloomberg and Tiffany-supported Global Ocean Legacy Campaign Win

Release Date:

10/22/2015

... and fishermen to provide technical assistance, public education, and a consultation process that involved ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Oak Foundation

The Value of Rigorous Evaluation

Release Date:

06/02/2014

... program assessment or evaluation. Unless we invest more resources in our capacity to measure the performance and ... undertake rigorous evaluation. It can be costly, diverting resources from the direct...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Launches Program to Support Community Development in Underserved U.S. Regions

Release Date:

10/23/2014

... (CDFG). The Program will deploy the Bank’s philanthropic resources for community development through high-performing ... investments in New York City. This concentration of CRA resources stands in contrast to...

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Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... in the GFF Trust Fund leverages domestic government resources , financing from the World Bank's International ... aligned external financing, and private-sector resources . To date, eleven projects...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

Release Date:

03/09/2018

... then measured the resource gap--the difference between the resources a household has and what they would need to be food ...

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Food Systems

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'Docu-Ad’ Exposes Hardship of Those Without Bank Access

Release Date:

06/03/2014

A new commercial from American Express, presented like an investigative nonfiction film, exposes the high costs of living outside the traditional financial system.

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Communications

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Economic Security

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American Express

Fate of Detroit’s “Grand Bargain” In Hands Of City Workers, Pensioners

Release Date:

06/20/2014

City workers and pensioners will decide the fate of Detroit's "Grand Bargain," an effort to save the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection from the auction block—and to which the Ford Foundation has pledged $120 million and Andrew W. Mellon...

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Mellon Foundation

In A Shift In Giving, JPMorgan Chase Focusing On Economic Growth

Release Date:

07/13/2014

A major shift is taking place at the JPMorgan Chase Foundation as it moves away from "broad-based giving" to a focus on "economic growth," according to Bruce McNamer, chief executive.

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack

Release Date:

04/14/2015

... creativity and strategic vision have been the driving forces behind many of our greatest successes. Furthermore, to ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arts

Communications/Media

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Time Warner

The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

Release Date:

11/18/2016

With the election of Donald Trump, this warning is frighteningly close to becoming reality, as Trump has vowed to implement surveillance policies that “were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Obama’s last challenge will be to do everything in his...

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Henry Luce Foundation Is Committed to the Art of Displaying Art (And Why That's Important)

Release Date:

01/24/2017

The Henry Luce Foundation, which just awarded a three-year grant of $825,000 to the Worcester Art Museum to support a series of projects focused on the museum's collection of pre-contemporary American art.