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15 Oct 2015

Lunch 4 Learning: Making Universal Free Lunch a Public Health Issue

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9:00am to 11:30am

... lunch. This downward participation trend as children get older has an immediate and long-term health and social ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Names Leisle Lin and William B. Petersen as New Senior Vice Presidents

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02/01/2012

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the promotion of Leisle Lin to the position of Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations and William B. Petersen to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Grace Nicolette Named CEP’s Vice President, Programming and External Relations

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01/19/2016

The Center for Effective Philanthropy announced Grace Nicolette’s promotion to vice president, programming and external relations. She previously served as a manager on CEP’s assessment and advisory services team and, most recently, as director of...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Sophia Stewart Joins Ford Foundation as Department Coordinator

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07/01/2013

Sophia P. Stewart is the new Department Coordinator in the Office of Communications at the Ford Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Stewart was the Office Coordinator at The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York (NGO/CSW/NY).

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Schendler & Haynes: Finally, ski resorts wake up to warming

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09/05/2013

Aspen Skiing Company Sustainability Director Auden Schendler and Mertz Gilmore Foundation Vice President Lukas Haynes talk about a collaboration between ski resorts and a climate-focused nonprofit to address global warming in The Salt Lake Tribune.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Environment and Climate Change

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If Pfizer Leaves NYC, Will It Start a Trend?

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05/01/2014

If Pfizer leaves NYC, will it start a trend? WNYC reports.

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Workforce Development

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Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response

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05/23/2014

[Ford Foundation] - President Darren Walker: Strategic philanthropy too often minimizes or ignores complexity because it is difficult to understand and predict.

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Executive Leadership

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Governance

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New York Community Trust Ranked Number Three In Total Assets

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07/15/2014

A new report that ranks community foundations by asset size finds that The New York Community Trust is number three in the nation with $2.4 billion.

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The New York Community Trust

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Wealthy Should Be Encouraged To Start Giving Sooner

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07/18/2014

Encouraging wealthy people to start giving away their money earlier in life "could prevent today’s urgent problems from becoming larger, more entrenched, and more expensive challenges later," according to Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO,...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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New Komen Head Says Organization's Mission is To Save Lives

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07/18/2014

The new head of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure says the organization is singly focused these days on its mission of saving lives from breast cancer and the controversy that engulfed the group 2 1/2 years ago when it stopped funding Planned...

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Atlantic Philanthropies Offers Best Practices For Winding Down

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08/13/2014

At the same time the Atlantic Philanthropies is working on giving away all its money, it's taking in a great deal of knowledge that could be helpful to other foundations "considering or already implementing a limited-life strategy."

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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NoVo Co-President Peter Buffett Uses New Notoriety to Champion Women and Girls Around the World

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10/10/2014

Washington Post examines Buffett's rise from anonymous musician to one of the world's leading philanthropists.

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Gender Justice

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Valerie S. Peltier Elected Chairman of The New York Community Trust

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12/04/2014

NYCT has appointed Valerie S. Peltier Chairman of the Distribution Committee.

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The New York Community Trust

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MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa

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01/21/2015

$15 million will support the development of new ideas, and $35 million wil help scale promising ideas or pilots.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

Dyson Foundation’s Leadership to Change in June

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03/19/2015

Andrea Reynolds will replace Diana Gurieva as President of the Foundation.

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New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations

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05/12/2015

The Pinkerton Foundation, Heckscher Foundation for Children and Carnegie Corporation have supported the Fund in the past.

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Education

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Niarchos and Revson Foundations announce five winners of 2nd annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

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05/26/2015

The awards celebrate the role of local libraries in serving New York City’s diverse communities. The winners emerged from more than 13,000 nominations by New Yorkers.

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