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Judy Woodruff and Jared Cohon to Join the Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees

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12/11/2013

Journalist Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour, and civil engineer Jared L. Cohon, President Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, have been named to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees.

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Elects New Board Chair and Five Members to Its Board of Directors

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01/15/2016

... Marnie S. Pillsbury, Senior Policy Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council Theo Spencer, and former Executive ...

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Full Implementation of OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs in New York State and City

Philanthropy New York's official position urging New York State and New York City to immediately act in compliance with OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs.

14 Nov 2013

A Quantum Leap Forward: How Funders Can Go from Building “Capacity” to Building “Resilience” in Their Grantees and the Nonprofit Sector

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York

Please join us for an important conversation that will explore how funders can help both their grantees and the broader nonprofit sector become more resilient. Philanthropy New York has convened a number of its member foundations during the last...

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Advocacy Group Supporting NYC Pre-K Expansion Raised $1.76 Million

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07/15/2014

... news article, Crain's New York Business reports that the grant from AFT, the parent union of the United Federation of .....

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Education

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer

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10/29/2014

Tina Beyers joins Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as new Chief Financial Officer.

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation The grant will be used to establish an integrated knowledge .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

As the non-profit funding sector focuses increasingly on numbers, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, co-directors of the NoVo Foundation, seek to counter that trend. The hyper-focus on measurement ignores what truly motivates people to give away large...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

A smartphone app might help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida improve their daily self-management skills, which can help prevent skin wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health &...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

... so they don't get burned out by day's end. . . With a grant from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the .....

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia.

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UJA-Federation of New York's CEO Writes Letter About AHCA to NY's Congressional Delegation

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03/24/2017

... that serve them. The current proposal to block grant or cap Medicaid will end the long-standing guarantee ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

... step. Mobile's two-year-old Innovation Team, funded with a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, cross-referenced the .....

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Community Development

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The Andy Warhol Foundation Partners With Calvin Klein

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11/29/2017

Calvin Klein has entered into a new partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which gives the American fashion brand unprecedented access to the late artist’s life work - much of which remains unpublished.

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Arts

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Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation

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01/03/2018

The Westport-based Newman’s Own Foundation was on the verge of securing a provision in the federal tax overhaul that would have spared it from an unusual 200 percent tax hike it is facing, when the Senate parliamentarian forced lawmakers to strip it...

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