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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... Can Offset Their Clout: Empower Community Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, myself included, tend to be of two minds: We like the idea that the wealthy are .....

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Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress

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07/31/2017

... Of Progress Recently in Rio de Janeiro I had the chance to visit a membership-only club, located on the shores of the ... my first time at the club; I was accompanying a friend’ s daughter who plays sports...

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Social Justice

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, ... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard' s Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The ... big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights faster. Less has been written about...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... Financing for Climate Issues As climate change pushes U. S . cities to build protections against stronger storms and more ... cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious climate giving. Around these parts, Jim ... billion, is a staff-favorite science philanthropist...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion' s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for ... using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the...

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... Philanthropy Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of ... 911 service. Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U. S...

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “I am so tired of ... for a role because of their race, and are then expected to have the required competencies but don’t.” These are just...

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How To Choose The Right Nonprofit To Donate Your Time To

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08/23/2017

How To Choose The Right Nonprofit To Donate Your Time To ... or the myriad of other charities out there, there are some things you need to consider before you...

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De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces

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08/30/2017

... Mayor Bill de Blasio fends off criticism over his timeline to close Rikers Island, his administration appears no closer to finding a new corrections chief, with some critics worrying he will...

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Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot

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08/31/2017

... Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot Elected to lead the biggest city in the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio often seems to hunger for a brighter spotlight. He tried to shape the .....

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Community Development

Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement It’ s to be expected that some residents would object to allocating city funds to...

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Arts

Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

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09/05/2017

... But Harvey will leave a huge amount of wreckage behind, some of it invisible. In particular, we don’t yet know just ... of chemical plants, waste dumps, and more. But it’ s a good bet that more people will...

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What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

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09/07/2017

What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’ s Move to Roll Back DACA Shortly after ... travel ban. Here' s a brief, incomplete rundown of what some...

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Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... such collaborations are rare. The motivation and ability to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So how did these leaders— some with competing agendas—manage to do it? Policy labs...

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Public Policy

Growing Number of Companies Opt for Locally Driven Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports GlobalGiving

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09/08/2017

... Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports GlobalGiving In response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, a growing number of companies ... driven relief and recovery efforts. GlobalGiving, a U. S . nonprofit, thoroughly vets...

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From the Ground Up

Release Date:

09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... and economic planning models often reduce India’ s poor to...

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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

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09/11/2017

... York City Mayor de Blasio announced an ambitious effort to open 90 homeless shelters across the city. The effort, ... hotels, and aim to open about 20 shelters annually. While some have been...

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