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Innovative Finance and the Search for the Next Big Idea

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10/17/2014

... Foundation launched its impact investing work in 2007, we ’ve invested nearly $50 million to build the necessary ... exciting ideas being surfaced within innovative finance, we launched a Twitter campaign at...

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United Way of New York City Releases 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standards

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12/02/2014

... (SSSR)—a study that establishes the new template for how we view economic self-sufficiency in New York City. In ... partnership with media giant, Crain's New York Business, we officially released the...

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The Haitian Earthquake: Response, Relief & Recovery

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01/14/2010

... to coordinate and list our members’ support efforts and we will continue to track relief and recovery in the wake of the tragedy in Haiti. We encourage our members to visit our special webpage on ...

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

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02/10/2015

... obstacles that until recently have drawn little attention. We need to understand these obstacles more clearly if we hope to find answers to surmount them.... PNY Members ...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

... the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said, " We are tremendously proud to announce to the world the fourth ... on artists and audiences in every corner of the country. We are thrilled to...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

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04/24/2015

... to Work Day in New York City appeared in Parade Magazine. We created that day when I was the president of the Ms. ... in girls' resilience and self-esteem at adolescence, which we had seen in recent...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

... may well be overlooking an even bigger problem: Have we unconsciously consigned the American Dream to the ... States requires immediate action and a clear strategy if we are to deal with the many social ills...

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OSF Grants $8 Million to Immigrant Advocacy Programs

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06/09/2015

... proceedings. “There is a sense of being undeterred, that we are going to continue planning,” Hincapie said, according to the Post, adding: “ We need to make sure that the infrastructure is in place and ...

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Citi Releases 2014 Global Citizenship Report

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06/11/2015

... to support economic progress in the communities where we operate around the world,” said Citi CEO Michael Corbat. “ We are living during a period of unprecedented urban growth, ...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

... to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives Every day we are inundated with harrowing stories of desperation from ... the world's largest internally displaced populations. We must act with solidarity to...

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Bank of America Foundation President Seeks to Increase Youth Development Opportunities

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08/19/2015

... internet--among other things. However, more and more we 're seeing these young adults, now the largest living ... age than their Baby Boomer and Gen-X counterparts. And we 're seeing that this...

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... which Tiffany & Company made jewelry. The conclusion we reached was inescapable: No amount of corporate profit or ... pledging not to use gold produced by the Pebble Mine, we became vocal opponents of mine...

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De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

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12/08/2015

... housing, youth employment and mental health. “ We may not agree on individual issues but we ’re all in the same ecosystem,” said Morgan Stanley ...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

... an effort to stop the revolving door of homelessness. We all have to start by acknowledging reality: homelessness is a chronic New York problem, as we can tell from walking the streets or reviewing simple ...

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Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree

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01/19/2016

... Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. “If we care about upward social mobility, then we need to pay attention to transfer students.” ...

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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

... skills needed to make a living. In the social sector, as we build enterprises and invest capital, we may be depending on assumptions based on an obsolescent ...

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

... people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, ... nonprofits — needs to play a role. At JPMorgan Chase, we ’re starting by giving thousands...

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

... struggle almost as much as their homeless peers. “ We can’t just think about it as a point-in-time event,” ... a policy analyst who worked on the report. “ We need to think about the life course of a student...

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

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08/24/2016

... the country is an especially hot funding area of late, as we 've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about, ... underrepresented in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we 've written about a...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course, but ... liberal answer for nearly a generation now has been that we should become aware of and “celebrate...

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