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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

... island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be “ more appropriate.” “You could design a facility that ...

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Justice Reform

Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers

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03/04/2016

... retain them, banks increased their compensation, gave them more time off and even did away with some of their more menial work. But some millennials have still been ...

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Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers to strengthen the delivery of health care ... a critical gap as the population lives longer and needs more care...” New York Community...

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The New York Community Trust

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Health

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... around the country of environmentalists teaming up with more conservative-leaning property-rights advocates, but she’d like to see more ... Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a ... as a foundation that was driven to invest in a better, more just world with people at the center...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... to submit the Letter of Intent is November 7, 2016 . For more details on the application process, including the full eligibility criteria, and for more details on the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research ...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia More than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed ... (CEP). But there is bad news, too, and some may find it more surprising. A much smaller proportion—just...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than the conversation that actual workers ... review between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, studying more than 540,000 news media and...

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Workforce Development

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

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01/12/2017

... 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 ...

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Economic Security

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Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich

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03/31/2017

... and flowers in Queens. “No individual has contributed more to the commercial and civic life of New York City over a ...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights

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04/19/2017

... effectively and engaging with nonprofits to catalyze more openness. In order to gather the most accurate and ... survey by May 5th. PNY MEMBERS: The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. The...

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PNY News

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... tech jobs. What are the motivations of "tech leavers"? More than anything else, survey respondents cited unfair ... with women of all backgrounds experiencing significantly more unfairness than men...

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Social Justice

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

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05/01/2017

... assets would, then making the grants sooner generates more social value than preserving the capital and making more grants later — but how would we know, asks a report ...

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... its most ambitious yet, the Flatiron Institute. What’s more , Jim and Marilyn Simons also decided they wanted that same roof to be their own. More specifically, the foundation made a significant ...

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Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

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06/08/2017

... was little support for other reasons, including "With more women leaders, workplace policies are likely to become more employee-friendly" (1 percent) and "Women leaders are .....

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Gender Justice

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Tisch Fund, NY Community Trust, Bloomberg & United Way of NYC Leaders Named Among the Most Powerful Women of 2017

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06/26/2017

... of the city’s most powerful businesswomen, we chose a more nuanced approach. Rather than measuring just Twitter ... For starters, our editors whittled down the list to more than 100 contenders whom we...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... cities to build protections against stronger storms and more frequent floods, the Rockefeller Foundation is helping ... by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Washington, D.C. More than a dozen cities have...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet

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08/21/2017

... in 37 countries. While the Gates Foundation spends more money, OSF has a larger footprint worldwide thanks to ... be around $930 million this year—which is substantially more than Ford’s total grantmaking...

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