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MetLife Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Raise Awareness about Financial Inclusion

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09/10/2015

... excluded. It is an economic and a moral imperative that we reach them and empower them.” “An estimated 1.2 ... excluded. It is an economic and a moral imperative that we reach them and empower them....”...

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... as a social worker and advocate for social equity, whether we should be doing more to pay attention to women and girls ... and Women. “But everything is not fine. Here at NoVo, we recognize that there is a...

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

... giving gets lost. Peter says of the op-ed’s origins, “ We ’d been hearing, ‘How do you measure, measure, ... intentions are not necessarily mutually exclusive. “ We use metrics, too,” Jennifer says. But she’s...

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New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation

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12/11/2015

... for children and young adults to prepare for careers. “ We ’ve found that programs that reach young people at ... high schoolers admitted to college end up graduating. So we ’re supporting Graduate NYC! as it...

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... or anxiety-related disorders, Platt said. "What we 're trying to do is both identify and understand the basic ... to the experiences of other individuals," he said. " We 're also trying...

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... health care that might slow this spending growth. “What we want is affordable clinical excellence, and that’s what is distinctive about what we ’re doing,” says Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., ...

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NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

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08/09/2016

... to money to left to us by New Yorker’s bequests, we fund programs that improve the lives of all New Yorkers, ... need,” the Trust’s Shawn Morehead says . “Recently, we helped thousands of young undocumented...

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Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors

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11/08/2016

... to our board,” said Board Chair Theresa Kilman, “means we will have a fresh perspective on one of the most pressing ... issues in our county – environmental sustainability. We look forward to his insights and...

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The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

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11/18/2016

... more protective of privacy—and more effective.” Still, we delude ourselves if we think they have made the NSA tyrant-proof. In Snowden’s ...

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What Makes for an Effective Program Officer?

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12/08/2016

... Effective Practice is an intensive peer learning program we offer each January to program officers and directors newer ... and implementing ethical and effective grantmaking. We ’re currently accepting...

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Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"

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01/06/2017

... Again , 1936 Dear Friends, In moments of uncertainty, we often return to familiar touchstones. For me, one such ... of which side of the US election each of us was on, we all find ourselves living with a...

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PhilTV This Week Dec 15 Features Edna McConnell Clark, Arabella Advisors and Hazen Foundation

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12/15/2016

... $5.2 Trillion Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? Nonprofit Journalism Groups .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Addressing 'Silent Killer' - Drowning Deaths

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05/15/2017

... 'Silent Killer' - Drowning Deaths There's a reason we 've named Michael Bloomberg the "most effective ... tested solutions that have worked in wealthy countries. We 've written...

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How Nathan Cummings and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Are Shifting Grantmaking in the Trump Era

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05/26/2017

... One lesson they’re learning since November is, “How we do our philanthropy may prove to be just as important as what we do with our philanthropy.” A concrete way that’s ...

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Bank of America Announces Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts

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09/11/2017

... the company and its employees related to the two storms. " We will do all we can to continue to assist the communities and our .....

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... above $20 trillion, no reasonable person can conclude that we should add to that amount. “Congress and the ... responsible, but it’s avoiding the tough decisions. We all want higher economic growth, but the...

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Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One

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10/04/2017

... places, were pummeled by massive hurricanes. Whenever we see storm destruction, memories of Sandy re-enter our ... it’s pretty simple: one of the most impactful things we could do, and certainly the lowest...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

... strategically. And he was right. “If you looked at what we were doing at the time, we were a mile wide and an inch deep,” says Peter Scher, ...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

Release Date:

11/01/2017

... often discouraged, excluded or underestimated. “The way we go about college access in the U.S. is a catastrophic ... of prison inmates. “Everyone was amazed,” he said. “ We were subject to many jokes in which...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Invests $2.5M in Youth Initiatives for 2017

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12/14/2017

... some of the most vulnerable young people in our nation. As we advance our commitment to supporting Brooklyn’s next generation of leaders, we are proud to fund these truly innovative, home-grown ...

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