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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

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09/16/2015

... Bloomberg Philanthropies provides unrestricted grants to 262 organizations around the country to help strengthen ... groups that have been in existence for at least two years . Bloomberg...

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Arts

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Attempts Murdoch Ouster at News Corp. Annual Meeting

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10/16/2015

... a raucous line of activist shareholders, including America' s Evelyn Davis and Australia' s Stephen Mayne, queueing behind microphones to blast or praise Mr Murdoch over a few hours...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Communications/Media

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Crain’s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members

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10/21/2015

Crain’ s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members The top 15 foundations on Crain' s list have grown 14.3% compared with last year, once again ... how the fortunes of philanthropists are...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees

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11/05/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees The Rockefeller Foundation has ... beginning his first term in 2005. AfDB is Africa’ s premier development finance institution, with 54 member...

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’ s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize In January, our foundation put out a call to anyone in America with a promising solution to a social ... we offered 10 prizes,...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... when Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced a plan to establish 20 as the age of jurisdiction for the state’ s juvenile justice system. This would make Connecticut the ... and other states in the past...

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Justice Reform

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

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01/19/2016

... everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic ... and marginalized may experience. Foresight Alliance' s report aims to...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... developments in homelessness, the roll-out of the mayor' s affordable housing plan and key decisions by Albany .....

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot

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06/03/2016

... Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’ s $100 Million Jackpot NPQ has covered a lot of contest philanthropy over the years —and not always in a way that is wholly complimentary. ... Over the...

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Jeffrey Schoenfeld and Robert Kapito Appointed President and Chair of the Board of UJA-Federation of New York

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06/28/2016

... at Brown Brothers Harriman, as president and Robert S . Kapito, president and a director of BlackRock, as chair of the board. As UJA’ s chief voluntary officers, they will both serve three-year terms slated...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark ... expansion of the Universe. “We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Science

Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... York City. Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to advance programming and services that directly benefit ... general operating support grant of $12,500 will be awarded to an organization or project...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

Bloomberg' s Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health Last week the World Health ... City mayor and billionaire philanthropist, is the WHO’ s new global ambassador for...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families The Harry and Jeanette ... today welcomes community, civic, and business leaders to its Annual Community Gathering. This program...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New ... Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change. Morton led the Overseas Private ... of energy and...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling

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12/09/2016

... it featured actress Laverne Cox on its cover. In the two years following that proclamation, mainstream media and pop culture attempted to follow suit. TV shows and movies like Transparent and ... and playing...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities A new ... is being coordinated by the nonprofit Aspen Institute’ s College Excellence Program and Ithaka S...

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Education

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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation

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01/10/2017

... staff since 2010, will be taking a position at Sotheby' s . "Sharon was one of the first people Christy hired and she has served us brilliantly for more than six years , most recently as Chief...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative Autism has a strong genetic component. To date, approximately 50 genes have been identified that ... from those with autism and their...

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