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23 Feb 2012

Recap & the Future: Reflecting on the 2011 New York Adventure Series and Planning for 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012 -

7:45am to 10:30am

Are there still places you’d like to explore in New York City, but you haven’t found the time or the ...

Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

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06/19/2014

... to products and services on more equitable terms and in new ways to previously excluded populations, and increase the number and quality of jobs in the United States , Mexico...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Russell Sage Study Shows Average Americans Get Poorer as Per Capita Wealth Reaches New High

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10/01/2014

... is declining. Despite a near doubling of total wealth in America over the past ten years, the typical American’s ... 2003. Over the same time period, the total wealth in the United ...

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Social Justice

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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

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11/11/2014

... of China China has five times as many people as the United States and is the second largest economy in the world, which is why China's rise is right up there .....

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Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality

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11/18/2014

... Action on Income Equality Economic inequality in the United States has become a hot topic in the public conversation, but ...

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NYCT and JPB-Backed Immigrant Legal Aid Program Will Expand Beyond NYC

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05/14/2015

... NYC New York City’s melting pot has been boiling over in the larger metropolitan area. Long Island, the lower ... last year by Robert A. Katzmann, the chief judge of the United States Court...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

The New York Community Trust

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Median Pay For CEOs In Health Care Companies Higher Than Any Other Industry

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05/27/2015

Commonwealth Fund research cited in analysis of America's rising healthcare costs... In 2014, ... $102 million. Executives at health care companies in the United ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... of knowledge about how biological systems function in health and disease. The selected Scholars will receive ... Scholars were nominated by research institutions in the United States...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

... and social consequences for immigrants’ children.   In three papers coming out over the next two weeks, the ... whether they are themselves immigrants or were born in the United ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Foundation for Child Development

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... (DARPA) fund much of the U.S. government’s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total ... Biology Research, finds that between 2008 and 2014, the United States invested...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

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09/24/2015

... rolled out the prospect of a “Moscow Track” to peace in Syria, marketed as a pragmatic alternative to the failed ... moves have begun to shift the ground, and ultimately the United States...

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Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality

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11/09/2015

Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality Under a new strategy announced ... of several initiatives, including LGBT rights in the United States...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Report on Uninsured Immigrants & Insurance Coverage

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02/01/2016

... hospitals. However, the ACA imposes significant cutbacks in compensating charity care, leaving a greater burden on ... the insurance needs of the immigrants left behind. In this report, the Community Service...

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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

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02/01/2016

... This is an historic year for The Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2016, we have reached our 35th year of grantmaking, and ... health care for people in both Southeast Asia and the United ...

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Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN

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02/11/2016

... left the Paris Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ... forged when climate change has already led to a rise in the Earth’s average temperature of 1°C above...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

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03/15/2016

... Away Picture a field ready for harvest. Any field in the world, it doesn’t matter: an acre of cassava in ... rice paddy in Indonesia, some amber waves of grain in the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers

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04/04/2016

... by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers A grant program managed by the Wildlife ... is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... workers to strengthen the delivery of health care services in the United States . NYCT will award the two social work organizations $1 ...

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The New York Community Trust

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With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

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10/21/2016

... Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics Many political commentators credit Donald ... clearest evidence that ongoing demographic changes in the United ...

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