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07 Nov 2017

From There to Here: Adapting Global Solutions to American Problems

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... to some of America’s most vexing social issues originate in a faraway land? Although social challenges in education, health , youth engagement, and community development play out ...

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Civic Engagement

24 Jan 2018

Through the Eyes of the Caregiver: “Care” Screening & Panel with Ai-jen Poo

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... who support their independence. Care invites us to engage in public discourse and consideration about solutions that ... care work with policies that contain the costs to public health programs, decrease...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison - Op-Ed Co-Written by Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

Release Date:

03/30/2020

... Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been an exemplar of leadership in this time of crisis, someone to whom other state and local ... million people, nearly 80,000 of whom are locked up in various New York correctional...

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Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

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04/16/2020

... systemic inequality will have profound global consequences in the years to come. As the virus spreads across continents, we will also focus our efforts in the Global South, particularly in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Sozosei Foundation Convenes Experts at Inaugural Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System

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01/08/2021

... at Inaugural Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System Princeton, NEW JERSEY (JANUARY ... decriminalizing mental illness. During the three-day event in December 2020, Sozosei...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Additional $420 Million to Reduce Tobacco Use Globally

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02/02/2023

... also plummeted, with 750 billion fewer cigarettes sold in 2021 compared to 2012. From the new $420 million in funding, $280 million will be aimed at reducing tobacco ... with national and local governments to...

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23 Oct 2012

Embracing the Power of Education - GFE 16th Annual Conference

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 10:30am to Friday, October 26, 2012 - 3:30pm

... peer network, access leading thinkers and practitioners in the field and deepen your knowledge of education ... site visits featuring distinctive education programs in New York City A Philanthropy New York...

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NY's Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New Orleans Arts Center

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06/12/2014

... Center The Joan Mitchell Foundation came to New Orleans in the aftermath of the 2005 storm and flood and spread ...

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Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship

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08/05/2014

... seminars advancing research around new and evolving issues in contemporary art, and also help support the relaunch of ... discussions around timely and urgent topics in contemporary art. “Major funding from...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... repository, launched as an ‘electronic bulletin board’ in August 1991, just before the dawn of the World Wide Web, ... make the raw, non-peer-reviewed manuscripts available in batches after a brief quality-...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... $30 million project to redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’s ... square foot indoor vertical farm and global headquarters in a converted steel factory...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Woodland Gardens Exhibit Unlocks the Magic of Aquatic Life

Release Date:

08/20/2015

... preview today, ahead of its official first day tomorrow, in the Battery. Featuring 30 different sea creatures that ... unique" experience that's "a major step forward in plans to revitalize The...

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Children, Youth and Families

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

... commitment to the most creative scholarship and teaching in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “We ... with innovative analyses of the most important big data in the study of the humanities.” “...

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Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

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10/21/2015

... Day will take place this Saturday, October 24, 2015 in neighborhoods throughout the country, bringing Americans ... for the common good. Tens of thousands will participate in the nation's largest day of...

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

Seeking to improve the leadership skills at nonprofits around the world, the American Express Foundation is starting an ambitious new digital effort to train aspiring charity executives.

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Crotona Park East and Morrisania Have City's Highest Rate of Jailed Residents, Data2Go.NYC Shows (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

Release Date:

01/20/2016

... to be spending the night behind bars than people who live in any other part of the city. The South Bronx ... of the neighborhoods’ adult residents were locked up in a city jail on any given day during 2014, a...

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Doris Duke Foundation Supports New Website Focusing on Refugees

Release Date:

03/08/2016

... — literally thousands of other Aylan Kurdis, not just in the Mediterranean but in refugee hot spots around the world." And so Tuesday, ... 15, will mark the debut of Refugees Deeply, the latest in...

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Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough

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03/24/2016

... at the Y-12 National Security Complex were legion, rooted in complacency and poor training. Management tolerated high ...

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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

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03/14/2016

Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program The Community Foundation of New Jersey ... Field Trip New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting...

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PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

Release Date:

11/17/2016

... City Mission Society, a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness ... LTW has served thousands of high school students in New York City’s most underserved...

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