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Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

The country’ s only independent polling agency has been accused under a ... who broke off their relationship with Vladimir V. Putin’ s administration and set up the country’ s only independent...

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Why Don’t Corporations Give to Charity?

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08/08/2013

... decline in corporate contributions to charities in the U. S ., as a percentage of pretax profits, over the past 30 years. A few weeks ago, I chaperoned my son’ s preschool field trip to the Maryland Science...

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10 Jul 2014

Community Driven Capacity Building: Creative Approaches From the Field - Webinar

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Increasingly, foundations are investing in deep community listening before they design strategies and approaches for capacity building with nonprofit grantees. Join us and hear the stories of family and regional foundations who came up with creative...

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Simons Foundation Gives Stony Brook University $25 million

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09/12/2014

Simons Foundation donates $25 million to Stony Brook University for research and programming in geometry and physics.

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Commonwealth Fund Weighs in on Health Tax Ruling

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04/07/2015

... from the Commonwealth Fund and the National Women’ s Law Center found that nearly 40 percent of women have a ...

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RPA Forms Partnership to Combat Poverty in Indonesia

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04/14/2015

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors will lead a group of foundations in implementing the global Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Donate $100 Million to Cornell Tech Campus

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06/16/2015

... named The Bloomberg Center, in honor of the billionaire’ s daughters, Emma and Georgina.... Bloomberg ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York City Takes Steps to Increase the Safety of Employees at Homeless Shelters

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07/07/2015

... Brooklyn is the first stopover for many of New York City’ s homeless men. Some call it Castle Grayskull after the ... former armory, was turned into the Bedford-Atlantic Men’ s Shelter in the early 1980s and...

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Housing and Homelessness

Elmezzi Foundation Increases Funding for Free Queens Programs

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07/29/2015

... Island City and Astoria is now allowing the foundation’ s Adult Learning Center to offer new sessions of adult ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Peace and Security Funding Index Tracks More Than $280M in Grantmaking

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04/05/2016

A new research project by the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), in conjunction with Foundation Center, finds that peace and security funders are making important contributions to global peace and stability.

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Economic Security

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Megan Holmes to Give Annual Italian Art Society/Kress Lecture

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04/15/2016

The annual IAS/Kress Lecture Series in Italy, inaugurated in 2010 with the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, encourages intellectual exchange between North American art historians and the international community of scholars based...

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JPB Foundation Research Finds Advanced Energy Driving Job Growth in Renewables, Smart Buildings

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05/02/2016

... Growth in Renewables, Smart Buildings Building on a state' s strengths in advanced energy technology can maximize job .....

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Tow Foundation Supports Fellowships to Strengthen Reporting on Juvenile Justice

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05/25/2016

The Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College (CMCJ) has selected 26 journalists as Reporting Fellows for its third year-long program aimed at strengthening reporting on juvenile justice during the election year.

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Justice Reform

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.5M To Conserve African Art Collection

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07/07/2016

... and art historical studies focused on the museum’ s stellar African art collection. According to a press ... release, the significant award will help launch VMFA’ s newly conceived center for advanced study in...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $500K to UC Merced for Humanities Undergrad Research

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07/19/2016

... will be a humanities-based expansion of UC Merced’ s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC)... ...

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Doris Duke Supports Research on Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

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09/07/2016

... cell disease, researchers from Dana-Farber/Boston Children' s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report today in .....

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Health

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Why De Blasio's Affordable Housing Plan Is in Trouble [In 5 Steps]

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10/19/2016

Why De Blasio' s Affordable Housing Plan Is in Trouble [In 5 Steps] More than half of New York City’ s 3 million apartments are defined as affordable—meaning ... another, but debate now centers on Mayor Bill...

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Housing and Homelessness

Three Red Hook Nonprofits Are Finalists in Inaugural Brooklyn Community Foundation SPARK Prize

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11/28/2016

Twenty SPARK Prize finalists have been chosen among a pool of 150 applicants. Seventeen ae Brooklyn-based organizations, including three from Red Hook: Dance Theater Etcetera (DTE); Red Hook Initiative (RHI); and the Red Hook Community Justice...

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With Support from Citi Foundation, Report Highlights Innovative Education Development

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11/30/2016

NYU Wagner and the Center for an Urban Future selected the 15 urban policy reforms after conducting hundreds of interviews with mayors, agency chiefs, policy experts, academics, business leaders, labor unions and philanthropic foundations.

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