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

Release Date:

03/22/2010

... families. We are pleased to have John Weiler, Heron’ s Senior Program Officer, describe the Fund and its work for ... to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’ s Opportunity Fund ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

Economic Security

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus

Release Date:

03/05/2013

... the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, the U. S . economy is still mired in a depressed state of output, and ... bring us out of this slump. But our current macroeconomic policy — driven entirely by...

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William T. Grant Foundation Awards $1.7 Million for Research to Benefit Youth

Release Date:

08/03/2013

The seven grants totaling nearly $1.7 million are in support of researchers and organizations working to understand and improve the environments in which youth spend their time.

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Affording Obamacare: New York's New Health Plan Rates

Release Date:

07/19/2013

... and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation. This week' s announcement of the costs of the health insurance plans that will be offered through New York State' s Health Benefit Exchange brought...

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06 Jan 2010

Nourishing Strong Communities: Access to Healthy Food as an Essential Ingredient of Community Building

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... food system. This briefing will introduce funders to food policy in New York City, model programs and approaches ... Cecil D. Corbin-Mark , Deputy Director/Director of Policy , WEACT . Ben Thomases , Food...

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Andrea G. Cohen Joins United Hospital Fund as New Senior Vice President for Program

Release Date:

04/02/2014

... for Program. An attorney with extensive legal and policy experience in the health care world, Cohen comes to ... of Health Services since 2009, she was the lead health policy advisor to the Mayor and Deputy...

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

Billionaires Wield Greater Power Through Charitable and Political Donations

Release Date:

05/18/2014

... moving beyond traditional charitable causes and tackling policy -oriented issues like climate change, gun control, ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

NYCT Announces the Retirement of Program Director Len McNally

Release Date:

02/10/2015

... million in areas covering bio-medical research, health policy and services, elderly, and people with AIDS. NYCT ...

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Disabilities

Health

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The New York Community Trust

Ford's Walker Addresses a Solution for Inequality in CNN OpEd

Release Date:

06/18/2015

Ford' s Walker Addresses a Solution for Inequality in CNN OpEd ... some, while limiting opportunity for many others. Here' s what we can do: Attack inequality at its roots.... Ford' s...

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U.S. Education Secretary Addresses Century Foundation Forum

Release Date:

04/19/2016

U. S . Education Secretary Addresses Century Foundation Forum The ... of decades of education, housing, and transportation policy has left the nation' s schools at a crossroads, U. S...

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Education

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Video: Time Warner Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility Discusses Women of Color in Leadership

Release Date:

05/17/2016

... Vice Provost and former Director of White House Domestic Policy , and Diahann Billings-Burford, Executive Director of ...

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Community Development

Milbank Memorial Fund Writes Letter to the New Administration

Release Date:

12/15/2016

... members of the Reforming States Group (RSG)—the nation’ s only bipartisan group of health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative ...