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NYCT Funding Pilot Program for In-school STI Testing

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10/17/2014

... be infected with a sexually transmitted infection, or STI. About 20 million new cases of STIs are diagnosed annually. ... and stigma tend to characterize the nation’s discussions about STIs—even though they...

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Education

The New York Community Trust

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... nonprofit organizations are seeking to get them thinking about how to channel their money and other assets into ... the spot, such as at a charitable event or when they learn about emergency appeals for aid...

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Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality

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11/18/2014

... messages that anti-poverty advocates use to raise urgency about the issue often fall flat. Typical approaches focus on ... team to explore taxpayers’ attitudes and test messages about the government’s role in...

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Economic Security

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

... which asked small groups of young people (14-19) to think about and create ways to educate their peers about social media and social good. Two prizes of $5,000 each ...

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Survey from Thomson Reuters Foundation and Rockefeller: Can You Have Children and a Career?

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10/19/2015

... by South Africa, Turkey, Indonesia and India where about three-fifths are optimistic about having both. By contrast, it is women in some of the ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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

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10/28/2015

... a lot of money. In 2013, 21 percent of U.S. households ( about 62 million people) reported speaking a language other ... becomes more diverse, it’s just good practice to think about what form information...

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The New York Community Trust

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NY State Health Foundation Sees Need to Educate Consumers on State Obamacare Offerings

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11/02/2015

... Paniagua is a single mom living in the Bronx. She earns about $400 a week, which she says doesn’t last her very ... “There is a big burden on the state to get the word out about this new program,” said Amy...

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New York Health Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... teachers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and students about how high schools could be remade to be more tech-savvy, ... integrate the elements of school reform, deepen learning about what works, and expand...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted some concern about the their long-term viability. But UnitedHealth Group's ... market before the ACA passed, and currently covers only about 5 percent of...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo made it clear you were about to see a Very Important Person. The procession began ... a glimpse of the soaring greenhouse atrium, a volume of about 1.6 million cubic feet. . . A...

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... a tremendous number of studies, forecasts, and scenarios about the future of work," said Claudia Juech, associate vice ... the next five years." In the sea of current thinking about this urgent topic...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... his check-writing habit. There’s something beautiful about my grandfather’s generosity. Yet as his generation ... a list of the board of directors, and detailed information about how the charity spends the...

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Jewish Interests

UJA-Federation of New York

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values, ... said 3,000 homes were sold in Detroit in 2015, and only about 500 involved mortgages...

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Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... labeled “how to do” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental sets of assumptions related to the ... if needed, revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an...

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... late, as we've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about , private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 ... in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we've written about a long list of...

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Education

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their ... these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing can be informative and ...

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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

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01/23/2017

... Another group passed by. Then a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to ... refugee emergency. Tsartsanis didn’t have to think long about what he should do. He ran and...

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Immigration

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Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

... culture as a strategy to advance policy. Full information about this Request for Proposals is available here . ... to share this Request for Proposals with others. Questions about the proposal process should...

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The New York Community Trust

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign adversaries than they ... Every year, the Building Bridges program awards about $1 million to $3 million to...

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