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Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?

Release Date:

09/12/2013

... Dress for Success and turned DoSomething.org into a national powerhouse platform for youth driving social change. ... to find major funding partners. Our shared frustration about foundation risk aversion led...

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Six Months Later

Release Date:

05/08/2013

... health , especially as temperatures rise this spring. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) ... Jersey’s most contaminated places have expressed concern about toxic chemicals in storm...

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Open Society Foundation Creates $10 Million Fund for Rohingya

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04/03/2018

... $10 Million Fund for Rohingya On the eve of the South Asian monsoon season, the Open Society Foundations have ...

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Open Society Foundations

Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

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12/16/2014

... begins conversations within the philanthropic community about how foundations can use their financial power to ...

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On the Occasion of the New York Foundation’s 100th Anniversary

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11/05/2009

... clarify their thinking and find or strengthen their voices . We admire programs that have demonstrated their ... the information they need to make thoughtful choices about their lives, in 1980. Prior to...

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

Release Date:

05/17/2017

... academic theory and policy practice in order learn about the prevention and management of financial crisis for ... its mission to create, disseminate, and preserve knowledge about financial crises. With this...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

NYS Health Foundation Offers Insights on Health Designs for Housing

Release Date:

01/30/2017

A substantial body of evidence links the design of the built environment with physical, social, and mental health outcomes.

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New York Health Foundation

24 Sep 2015

Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits

Thursday, September 24, 2015 -

9:00am to 12:15pm

... author of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , Katie Paine, about basic concepts in how to think about evaluation, and from innovators offering concrete ... Media Impact Funders Public Policy Communicators NYC...

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Citi Lets Viewers Vote With a Click for a Sports Group

Release Date:

02/09/2014

... the wake of the financial crisis is in the doldrums, with Americans rating the reputation of the industry only 58 on a ...

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Instead of Retiring, Many Seek 'Encore' Jobs

Release Date:

07/07/2014

... survey in 2011 seems to be on the rise as millions of Americans are making plans to work instead of retiring and ... Foundation and Encore.org found that roughly 9 million Americans ages 44 to 70, or 9 percent...

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Aging

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MetLife

JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

Release Date:

05/16/2016

... unexplored relative to their consequences for millions of Americans . EPIC's work is supported by JP Morgan Chase & Co., .....

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare

Release Date:

05/25/2016

... Get Needed Healthcare More than 60% of working-age Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust $8.4M Gift Began the Process to Improve Care For Heart Attacks

Release Date:

06/09/2016

The American Heart Association has recognized three South Dakota hospitals and one ambulance service with quality achievement awards for heart and stroke care.

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Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas

Release Date:

08/28/2017

The Trump administration is considering major reductions in cultural exchange programs, including those for au pairs and summer workers, that allow young people from foreign countries to work in the U.S., people familiar with the administration’s...

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/05/2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting combating climate change, delivering an implicit rebuke to his American counterpart, Donald Trump.