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NYCT Supports South Bronx Culture Trail

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10/03/2014

... Culture Trail An arts and education center and what' s believed to be the first Puerto Rican-owned music store in ... sites set to get markers that will designate them as part of the South Bronx Culture...

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The New York Community Trust

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Verizon Foundation to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools

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12/05/2014

... math (STEM). The company is examining applicants now for the Verizon Innovate Learning Grants that will go to underserved public schools, those with large numbers of students who receive free or reduced lunch...

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JPMorgan Chase Pledges $10 Million to Study Its Philanthropic Impact

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02/06/2015

... $10-million to answer a big question: Is its corporate giving making a difference? The financial-services giant ... and a $100-million project to help revitalize the City of Detroit. "We believe corporate...

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NYCT-Funded Unaccompanied Minor Initiative Lauded for Helping NYC Address Immigrant Issues

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02/11/2015

NYCT-Funded Unaccompanied Minor Initiative Lauded for Helping NYC Address Immigrant Issues In her first year ... and empower local immigrant communities. Key aspects of her agenda have dealt with law enforcement...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... Community College Gail O. Mellow, the president of LaGuardia Community College, a two-year institution in ... Sachs, who surprised her with the news that the bank was giving the school $2 million. No...

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... has announced pledges totaling $30 million in support of its national scholarship fund, which aims to provide ... the Pershing Square Foundation, which was established by Giving Pledge signatory Bill Ackman,...

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Fourth Annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge Seeks Problem Solving Ideas From Students Nationwide

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08/17/2015

... to gather teams, dream up ideas, and create concepts for mobile apps that could solve problems in their schools ... to ultimately help students envision brighter futures for themselves that they may never have...

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Technology

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery

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08/25/2015

... & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery U. S . jeweler Tiffany & Co. is making a lasting impression on its hometown of New York with the opening of its foundation’ ...

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American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs

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10/05/2015

... Programs American Express and the National Association of Secondary School Principals today announced the five winners of the Principals Path to Leadership grant, a giving program created to...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

NoVo Foundation’ s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world' s...

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Gender Justice

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

United Hospital Fund' s Levine on Healthcare' s Toll on Caregivers Caregivers see ... necessarily as “caregivers,” Carol Levine, director of the New York City-based United Hospital Fund...

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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

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04/28/2016

... Foundation program that funded the advanced education of social justice leaders from marginalized groups led to ... Program, which supported graduate-level education for more than forty-three hundred emerging...

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Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

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05/05/2016

Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation Surdna has an ... idea: Give more ownership of companies to workers. It’ s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been...

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Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere

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05/24/2016

Three Ways Ford Foundation' s Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere ... This shift introduces new funding opportunities for nonprofits that work to combat poverty, the marginalization ...

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Mastercard Foundation Celebrates 10th Anniversary By Donating Close To $700K To Canadian Organizations

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06/28/2016

... Covenant House Toronto to the Aspire Change Foundation, it' s marking its 10th anniversary by addressing needs that exist here at home and abroad through a special Giving Campaign. Each of...

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Weinberg Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day

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09/27/2016

... for a Day The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today hosts its 10th annual Employee Giving Program. At the event, 25...

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Howard Gilman, Laurie M. Tisch, Doris Duke and Mellon Fund Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Latest Project

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10/18/2016

... latest project, Silent Voices, harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those who have been silenced or marginalized ...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own

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11/28/2016

The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman' s Own Paul Newman was a man ahead of his time. While everyone now grasps the idea of social ... was a novelty when it launched in the 1980s and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Largest Funder of Tobacco-Control Efforts in the Developing World

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12/05/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Largest Funder of Tobacco-Control Efforts in the Developing World Michael ... on cigarettes. In 2006 and 2008, he took his fight global, giving $125 million and then $250 million to...

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