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Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Addressing 'Silent Killer' - Drowning Deaths

Release Date:

05/15/2017

... and traffic accidents kill millions every year—and many of these deaths are preventable with common sense ... thanks to various steps at prevention and education. Why can't the same trend take hold in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Ford, J.M.Kaplan, Teagle and David Rockefeller Fund All Working to Bring College Into Prison

Release Date:

10/30/2017

... the population of New Mexico, it isn’t hard to see why . There’s a lot of room for reform in the criminal justice system, with many funders focusing on the inequities of who goes to jail ...

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Justice Reform

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action

Release Date:

04/13/2018

... For a long time, Gamoran said, the rough consensus about why policymakers were essentially ignoring research evidence ... whether decision-makers would consult it. “We found many examples of good research...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

Release Date:

08/15/2018

... and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, ... pasta and looking for a theoretical explanation for why the sticks refused to snap in...

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

We're Expanding the New York PhilanthroPost, and We Need Your Help

Release Date:

02/04/2015

... inbox next week. If you don’t want to wait until then, feel free to send us an email with your thoughts, suggestions ...

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President's Message

PNY News

Simplifying the Excise Tax on Private Foundations

... planning, especially for smaller foundations that may lack resources for complex financial planning. Simplifying the ...

Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

Release Date:

01/12/2016

... unions. By stripping these unions of key financial resources — their fair share of fees provided by nonmembers ...

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Education

Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

Fair Health Launches New Healthcare Portal YouCanPlanForThis.Org with Support From the New York State Health Foundation

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... and social media in directing people to the healthcare resources they need. "MRI" and "root canal" were, .....

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Whiting Foundation Awards 2019 Creative Nonfiction Grants

Release Date:

10/08/2019

... are essential to our culture, but come into being at great cost to writers in time and resources . The grant is intended to encourage original and ...

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Arts

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Whiting Foundation

21 Oct 2010

Understanding the Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in New York City

Thursday, October 21, 2010 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

The Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, NYC.

... needed to coordinate and make effective grants, leverage resources , and influence a change agenda to eliminate the ... at transforming the academic trajectory and educational resources for Black males in New...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

... work in this area is mostly complete. One project that is still in progress is the research we are doing in partnership ... New York's Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts and the resources can be found here...

Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development

Release Date:

02/01/2018

... has gone up to about one in ten kids, bringing services to many children whose needs might otherwise gone unnoticed ... screening initiative is just one of several relatively low- cost but high-impact steps...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Rauch Foundation

Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

Release Date:

07/09/2019

... send scientists to Chile, and analyze data, among many other costs,” said Brian Keating, a UCSD ...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Philanthropy New York's By-Laws

Publication date:

04/2015

Governing by-laws for Philanthropy New York.

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HR & Operations Staff

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Governance

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David Sandman, President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation on Strengthening and Adapting New York’s Hospitals

Release Date:

05/24/2018

... served as executive director of the Berger Commission , many of New York State’s hospitals were in shaky condition. ... one-quarter of the State’s hospitals, including many restructurings and even a few...

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Occupy The Box

Release Date:

03/21/2012

... anyone was sure they could work. In some fundamental ways, many of the groups we support have not yet built a box to ... specifically for the social sector—its subtitle is Why Business Thinking Is Not the...

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Insights

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All Funders

The Philanthropic Community Can Help 250,000 New Yorkers Access $10 Billion in Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation on Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Release Date:

08/11/2022

... and the ability to change the financial well-being of so many was inspiring and a message that needs to be shared, so ... financial situations. That’s also one of the reasons why it's so exciting to think...

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Insights

27 Apr 2023

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Convening: The Future of NYC’s Workforce Development Board

Thursday, April 27, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... and Workforce Development and convening the Future of Workers Task Force. Executive Order 22 called on the Task ... New York City’s workforce board What will you learn? Why and how empowered workforce...

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Economic Security

Public Policy

Workforce Development

With Support from NoVo Foundation, Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/22/2018

The Buen Vivir Fund—established by Thousand Currents and backed by the NoVo Foundation (founded by Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, and his wife Jennifer)—is seeking to deploy a different, albeit historically well tested, impact investment...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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NoVo Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Commits $2.3 Million to NPower to Prepare More than 700 Veterans for High-Quality Technology Jobs

Release Date:

11/11/2019

... by veterans make them excellent candidates for high- growth tech careers; we simply provide the skills and ... commitment to meet the growing demand for skilled workers , the firm is collaborating with NPower...