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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Breaks New Ground in a Critical Health Niche

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06/28/2017

... for NTDs. It wasn’t long before governments began making their own commitments to tackle NTDs throughout the ... funding catalysts are small—or unknown. Consider the case of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high...

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation Releases New Guide and Online Clearinghouse for Counties to Prepare for the Family First Act

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10/10/2018

... and families and also saves counties money. These case studies complement an online clearinghouse, ... in a short period of time.” Counties across NY are making efforts to prepare for the new federal law...

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Gender and Transformative Giving

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05/23/2013

... recently approached by another organization with a sizable grant who wanted help identifying major U.S. funders with a ... We encourage program officers to make not only the moral case — that it’s the right...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Expands Career Development Award

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06/24/2020

... Blindness (RPB) announces exciting changes to its flagship grant , the RPB Career Development Award (CDA), by increasing ... biomedical inflation, which increases costs for the resources needed to perform...

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Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

... to investigate how to more effectively apply their resources toward large societal problems like education, racism, poverty , healthcare, and hunger. The conclusion they came to ...

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05 Jun 2013

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Superstorm Sandy

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

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

This Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders will focus on current workforce activities in response to Superstorm Sandy and the opportunities for new investments in impacted communities. It will also include an update on a highly...

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29 Nov 2018

The Urgency of the First Amendment: Holding on to Core Values in Crisis - A Webinar Hosted by Media Impact Funders

Thursday, November 29, 2018 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

In this moment of grief and division within our country, it’s urgent that we reflect on the core values that make us Americans, and that we must maintain and strengthen in times of crisis. Philanthropy plays a critical role in maintaining our First...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Equity-and-Justice Advocate Kavita N. Ramdas As President and CEO

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09/01/2021

... at Stanford University and worked to combat domestic poverty and support community solutions at the Chicago-based ...

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Nature and NYC Communities Can Thrive Together Through These 5 Goals

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04/19/2018

... NYC2050 coalition’s capacity. The coalition needs more resources to ensure regular communication and promotion and ...

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On Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn: Start With Existing Community Assets

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03/16/2017

... for years. Vital Brooklyn will bring more attention and resources to Brownsville, one of the six neighborhoods across ... Brooklyn, we are excited to see more attention and more resources devoted to these...

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New York Health Foundation

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Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO

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08/16/2017

... proximity to national partners doing critical advocacy and programming work and the racial and socioeconomic ... were among several factors important to the decision making ." “Seattle has been a great...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Support to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Service Automatic Defibrillator Devices

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05/17/2021

... of Health and Human Service (DHHS) a $6.4 million grant for the distribution of Automated External ... law enforcement organizations throughout the state. This grant builds on the previously awarded $5.9...

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Pfizer and the Avon Foundation for Women Support Patients Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

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01/21/2015

... services, support, financial, and legal support Distribute resources and services available to vulnerable populations Share educational resources with the public focusing on metastatic disease, ... will...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $75 Million Commitment to Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide in Greater Washington

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01/25/2022

... almost one-fifth of the D.C. population was living in poverty . The racial wealth gap was eight times greater than ... Gap By combining business, data, policy and philanthropic resources , the firm aims to...

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Beyond Equity as a Trend, Toward Real Change

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04/24/2018

... a “dogged trend of disinvestment” and direct our grant dollars to communities of color in order to transform ... a priority while continuing to dedicate the bulk of their resources to support the same, largely...

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The New York Community Trust

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... Studies show that giving women more decision- making power over productive assets has the potential to ... farm yields by more than 20%, which is essential to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030...

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International/Foreign Affairs

15 Oct 2018

Hurricane Michael: How to Respond - A Webinar Hosted by Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Monday, October 15, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm with winds of 155 mph. It was the strongest storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The devastation from the Hurricane...

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Environment and Climate Change

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Organizations Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint and Improve Health

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04/20/2018

... world’s seventh-largest producer of carbon dioxide , making it a major contributor to air pollution. The ... climate-related catastrophes. There may also be a business case for the health care industry to...

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