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United Way of New York City

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

Farms are being built at public housing sites to grow produce for communities with limited access to healthy food.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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New York Health Foundation

Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... on both sides of the debate. With tens of millions of dollars to spend thanks to backers like Michael R. Bloomberg, ...

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Public Policy

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UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

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02/09/2016

... Health & Human Services are seeking tens of millions of dollars for a joint retirement plan serving thousands who ...

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Jewish Interests

UJA-Federation of New York

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... Foundation) Schools and states have poured millions of dollars into overhauling teacher evaluation systems, rotating ...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... is rare. He has made two big bets with his philanthropic dollars : one in a company that makes Plumpy’Nut, a peanut ...

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

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08/22/2016

... Less rental assistance will mean more homelessness. Fewer dollars spent on affordable housing will mean more spent on ...

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Housing and Homelessness

PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

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11/17/2016

... a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to ...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... in for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-justice system that has ...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Justice Reform

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Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and Co-author Talks About “Say Her Name”

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05/10/2016

... Bumpers as they were evicting her for being a few hundred dollars behind in her rent,” said Ritchie. “If her story ...

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

Fare & Square is a non-profit supermarket opened by Philabundance to counter the massive food desert that is Chester, which for more than a decade before its opening had no grocery store. Residents in Chester, about a third of whom live in...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

... Philanthropies, which gives away hundreds of millions of dollars annually, much of it to promote health. . . Bloomberg ...

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Health

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

There is a boom in Muslim-led nonprofit work that counters ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund.

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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Community Development

Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... 3.8 percent greater than the 2008 level (expressed in 2016 dollars ). . . Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down ...

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Economic Security

De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... School program, which pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to turn around the city’s most troubled schools, ...

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Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation

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10/04/2017

The new leaders of Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic announced they were scuttling a half-billion-dollar plan for a gut renovation of David Geffen Hall and seeking simpler ways to improve the lackluster theater.

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Arts

Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... giving day that aims to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for local nonprofits. Taking place on Tuesday, ...

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