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Rockefeller Foundation President Reflects On America's Most Pressing Challenge Jobs And Economic Opportunity

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10/16/2017

... up in the Detroit area, as I did, to re-engage with the city and learn how they can help it continue to bounce back ... opportunity. I was fortunate to grow up outside the city that gave America the notion of...

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Arabella Advisors Announces Sharyn Church as New Managing Director for Southern California

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09/15/2020

... re-branding of the renowned L.A.-based arts center Inner- City Arts, which received the prestigious Rudy Bruner Award ... in the social-impact sector, including service on: City and county policy councils...

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2012 NGen Fellows Project: Hacking the NGen Experience

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09/29/2013

... at the Independent Sector National Conference in New York City on September 29. Learn more about the NGen Fellows' proposal. 2012 NGen Fellows .....

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Leadership Development

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De Blasio drafts biz execs to push pre-K tax

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01/29/2014

... for the tax hike, which would apply to households in the city earning more than $500,000. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said that he wants ...

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Education

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United Hospital Fund Report Details Lessons Learned in Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions

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10/14/2014

... readmissions. The initiative involved seven New York City hospitals in its first stage, in which participants ... patients, its chosen focus for the initiative, by more than a third (from 16 percent in 2011 to...

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Ford Foundation Strives to Boost Medicaid Enrollment

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12/01/2014

... Funds will support BeneStream's mission to enroll more low-income empoyees in Medicaid. BeneStream, a ... in Medicaid. The low-interest loan from the New York City -based foundation will enable BeneStream...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Supporting Advanced Social Work Training

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12/19/2014

... their geriatric knowledge and supervision skills so that more than 1,200 front line social workers will be better ... is based on a successful pilot project in New York City over the past five years that...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... program that has been under development at Hostos for more than two years and will enroll students this fall for ... food in their communities. At a time when the Bronx, the city ’s poorest borough, faces a...

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Food Systems

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NYSHF Energizes Entire Communities with Healthy Neighborhoods Fund Initiative

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02/02/2015

... to help communities find ways to create healthier and more active lifestyles for residents. Grant recipients must ...

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New York Health Foundation

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... the making. FEGS is responsible for running hundreds of city and state social-service programs—but also political, ... 172 different programs, but according to Jewish Week, more than 100 different programs are...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative

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09/11/2015

... for 7-12 year olds, #MetKids launches with 40 videos and more than 125 featured objects, fun facts, and project ideas ... contributors-kids from all five boroughs of New York City and around the world-helped...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bank of America and Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Global Build

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10/06/2015

... Build will feature the first-ever home build in New York City ’s Bryant Park, where volunteers will build in ... the Global Build and bring our international scale to help more people achieve homeownership and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Housing and Homelessness

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5 Questions for. . .Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation

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10/15/2015

... to control and contain it. As we have come to understand more fully in the decade since, Katrina also exposed a number ... of the built and natural environments. The New York City -based Rockefeller Foundation...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... States. “As our workforce in this country becomes more diverse, it’s just good practice to think about what ... Trust, which supports an array of nonprofits in the city . That means giving workers the...

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Workforce Development

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

... 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn More than two dozen youth from across Central Brooklyn ... Lefferts Gardens), and Latrice Walker (Brownsville), and City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo (Fort...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

... Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 healthcare related-apps reviewed by ... safety, according to an issue brief published by New York City -based The Commonwealth Fund. The...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city 's youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could ... Island and spread across the nation. Three years later, more than 500 families have...

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

... and the manufacture of value-add products and, therefore, city location is less of a factor for business’ location ... technology, meaning that in labor markets there are more journeymen, no assurance of life...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... as a way of fostering social mobility and cohesion has more than doubled, to a hundred, since 2007. Based on nine ... Connecticut; Jefferson County, Kentucky; and New York City , the report found that when...

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