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JPMorgan to Commit $100-Million to Boost Detroit’s Recovery

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05/21/2014

... in grants and loans over five years to aid Detroit’ s revitalization effort as the city recovers from the country’ s largest municipal bankruptcy, The New York Times and the ... economic-development projects...

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Sharon B. King, Noted Philanthropic Leader, Dies at 68

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10/27/2014

... respected leader in philanthropy, died peacefully at home on October 21st, following a long battle with cancer. ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Providing Access to Better Food in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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12/02/2014

... with the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and the city’ s Health and Hospital Corporation. It is a startlingly simple idea to deal with a complex problem. New York’ s FVRx program operates in poor areas known...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

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Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India

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03/24/2015

Water-related illness is among the leading cause of death in children under five years old worldwide.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Environment and Climate Change

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MetLife Foundation and WSJ Team up for the Financial Inclusion Challenge

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03/26/2015

... the MetLife Foundation revised its grantmaking strategy to home in on financial inclusion exclusively. The foundation’ s latest weapon in its financial empowerment arsenal is the ...

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Economic Security

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Ford Freezes $4 Million in India Funding Amid Clampdown

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07/15/2015

... to organizations in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi' s government scrutinizes foreign donors viewed as meddling in ... in 2009 to Teesta Setalvada, a prominent Modi critic whose home was raided...

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Can You Run A City Based on Happiness?

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07/17/2015

Can You Run A City Based on Happiness? It’ s hard to imagine anyone being unhappy living in Santa ... The affluent beachfront city, a suburb of Los Angeles, is home to surfers, students, and celebrities mixed with...

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Ford Foundation Awards $1 Million to Help Prisoners Get a College Education

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08/06/2015

... society. The grant will allow the program, which is home to the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, to ...

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Education

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'Embrace of the Serpent' Wins Sloan Foundation Prize at Sundance for Portrayal of Science

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01/29/2016

... Academy Award in the Foreign-Language Film category, took home another prize Wednesday: The Alfred P. Sloan Prize at ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

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04/05/2016

... Community College, the City University of New York’ s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned building on the Upper West Side. The institution, CUNY’...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College CUNY

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Rauch Foundation Seeks Publisher for Long Island Index

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04/19/2016

... of topics affecting the Island and its residents. “It’ s a good time to look for a new home and a new life” for the Index, foundation president ...

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Alison Bernstein, Longtime Ford Foundation Official, Dies at 69

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07/12/2016

... Foundation, died on June 30 of endometrial cancer at her home in East Hampton, N.Y., at 69, writes The New York ... managing other grant makers for the organization’ s Education, Creativity and Free Expression...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Explosion in the Number of School Districts Working on Integration

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10/14/2016

... the most segregated school systems in the country but also home to a growing number of advocates pushing for more ...

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Airbnb Touts A 'Pivot,' But Its Fate In New York City Remains Uncertain

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12/08/2016

In some cities, Airbnb is making a dramatic about-face in a belated effort to work with regulators rather than against them and, presumably, bolster its $30 billion valuation.

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Housing and Homelessness

New York Community Trust Supports Program to Educate Parents and Families About LGBTQ Issues

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02/01/2017

... teenagers after they’ve been kicked out of their family home due to the cultural stigma attached to being gay, or ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Casey Family Programs Backs Initiative Giving Kids a Camera — and a Voice

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04/03/2017

... Kids a Camera — and a Voice Put a camera in a child’ s hand, Shannen Keene figures, and the young photographer can ... way. And if that child has experienced abuse or neglect at home , the story that’ s...

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Obituary: Rachel Cowan, Former Nathan Cummings Foundation Official

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09/07/2018

... movements in that faith, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was brain cancer, ...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Uniting Around a Shared Vision: Philanthropy and Citizens United

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10/04/2012

... speakers served up several during Philanthropy New York’ s recent panel on the Supreme Court’ s Citizens United decision . The issue that resonated most ... who recently commissioned a study to explore the...

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Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC

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03/04/2016

... five years. The study, which was funded by Capital One’ s Future Edge initiative, also shows that the number of ... New York than in Silicon Valley and Boston, the nation’ s other leading tech hubs. While the...

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