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Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities Helping Cities Grow More Powerful

Release Date:

11/22/2017

... mayors would be that dangerous." Well, during his 12-year term as Mayor of NYC, he found the opposite: a mayor can ... and Seattle. As Bloomberg related, during his term as Mayor "the life expectancy...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

Release Date:

03/22/2010

Like many funders, the F.B. Heron Foundation experienced a decline in its charitable assets during the past two years.

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

Economic Security

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy

Publication date:

10/2007

How do foundations maximize their impact? What is the role of strategy? Is your foundation strategic? Are you?

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Scott Stringer Unveils Transition Team

Release Date:

11/18/2013

... Diversity Officer and Senior Vice President for Corporate Responsibility at Time Warner Inc. NEW ...

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The New York Women's Foundation

Simons Foundation Funds Groundbreaking Autism Research

Release Date:

12/15/2014

New study links brain inflammation to autistic spectrum disorder.

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

Release Date:

09/01/2016

In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Gene-Editing Technology That Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals

Release Date:

11/17/2016

Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the non-dividing cells that make up the majority of adult organs and tissues.

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Health

Science

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

N.Y., Pa., and Del. Move Toward Delaware River Frack Ban

Release Date:

09/14/2017

Officials responsible for protecting water in the Delaware River region across three states took a step Wednesday to ban natural gas hydrofracking. Five members of the Delaware River Basin Commission voted 3-1 to come up with rules on such a ban by...

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Environment and Climate Change

NYC To Vie for Amazon's Second Headquarters

Release Date:

09/18/2017

New York City wants to score Amazon's second North American headquarters.

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Workforce Development

Here’s What Carmen Fariña’s Top Deputies Have on Their Plates This School Year

Release Date:

09/21/2017

As the person responsible for 1.1 million students, 75,000 teachers and 1,800 schools, Chancellor Carmen Fariña can’t have eyes everywhere.

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Education

27 Jun 2024

COO Roundtable - June 2024

Thursday, June 27, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

COO Roundtable The COO Roundtable is a Philanthropy New York professional peer network, composed of senior-level executive officers who are responsible for the financial and administrative oversight and day to day management of...

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Network Building

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

25 Feb 2014

Game On: New Tools for Learning and Advocacy

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 -

1:45pm to 5:30pm

Philanthropy New York

... and is at the nexus of learning, advocacy and social change. Game makers are creating games for social good — games where players learn about issues such ... discuss how supporting the development and...

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Issue-Based

Topic(s)

Public Policy

Funding Area

Technology

Committee for Children Launches Out-of-School Time SEL Program with Support from The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

03/26/2019

... Children (CFC) announced today that it is creating a new social -emotional learning (SEL) program for after-school ... for this important opportunity to address the need for social and emotional learning in out...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Wallace Foundation

29 Jul 2021

Reimagining Systems - Level Changes for Economic Equity - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Thursday, July 29, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... wealth building and economic mobility now and over the long - term . Join us for a follow-up conversation with leading ...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Finance & Asset Management

Funding Area

Economic Security

14 Jul 2015

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 -

2:45pm to 4:30pm

... in education, civic engagement, community development, social justice and/or advocacy as a tool to further their ... with your name, title, organizational affiliation, business mailing address, and phone...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Location

New York City

Board of Directors

... President, Surdna Foundation Ex-officio, All Current term : 2023-2026 Irfan Hasan Headshot cropped.jpg ... Committee, Co-Chair; Audit Committee, Member Current term : 2024-2027 Rickke Mananzala crop.png Rickke...

28 Mar 2013

Online Tools for Your Grantees (and You, Too!)

Thursday, March 28, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Webinar

Your grantees are thrilled by your support, but they often ask you for suggestions of other donors to approach. Who else is funding your issues? What other funders care about the communities you support? Who might be a good partner for your grantees...

"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

Release Date:

07/28/2014

America needs to take steps to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, write David Blumenthal, M.D., president, and David Squires, senior researcher to the president, The...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Documentary Funded by New York Life Foundation Wins Emmy

Release Date:

08/26/2014

"One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp," a documentary funded by the New York Life Foundation, won the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming.