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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

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07/07/2016

... $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global ... and encourage the use of resilient building practices in New York City, and to foster a...

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration

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02/03/2017

... Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration For weeks, Donald Trump ran his presidential transition out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. Now that he has been sworn ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030

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02/07/2017

... Help Halve Food Loss by 2030 Local and global stakeholders in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the ... of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. The loss in Nigeria is staggering...

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Food Systems

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... to expand access to middle-skill jobs for young people in the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 ... effort will connect career and technical education schools in the South Bronx to New...

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The New York Community Trust

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Workforce Development

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NYS Health Foundation Co-Authors Column on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services

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06/01/2017

... The critical contributions of immigrants are felt in every corner of the five boroughs: immigrants are just ... and immigrant communities pay over $10 billion in property and income taxes a year, while...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... divestment movement. Many of these early adopters are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the ... Overbrook is a progressive family foundation started in 1948 by Helen Altschul and Frank...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 ... three distinct roles played by those who participate ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

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09/22/2017

... meeting to strengthen the partnership with the private sector and discuss opportunities created by Africa’s ... partners, the event explored how smart investments in health, empowerment, education and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women ... or seeking to ban transgender people from enlisting in the military, this administration has made attacking...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Gender Justice

Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... academic medical center to join the GCCHE. Faculty members in the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University's ... School of Public Health, the first academic program in climate and health ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Health

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil sector here. He...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

... and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory ... will offer recommendations to help rebuild Puerto Rico in a way that makes the island stronger –...

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Disaster Relief

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Partners with Lumina Foundation to Address Racism on College Campuses

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12/11/2017

... Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of community-building efforts designed to promote ... Philanthropy Advisors to invest $1 million in a national study of the racial climate on...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Education

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio ... different countries, representing academia, the private sector , civil society, activist...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Philanthropy New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Its Two-Year Public Policy Fellowship

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01/25/2018

... learning about and networking within the philanthropic sector . It is designed to increase our organizational capacity in issue-based organizing and government relations, but also ... our commitment to growing...

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RFPs Etc

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Public Policy

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new ... represent the boldest such move to emerge from the banking sector ... Citigroup Sets Restrictions...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR Lata N. Reddy, the senior vice president of ... was done through “an inside out and an outside in perspective”—using the company’s skills to work on a...

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Community Development

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Michael Bloomberg Announces 2nd Annual Global Business Forum and One Planet Summit

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07/11/2018

... second Bloomberg Global Business Forum will be held in New York City on September 26 th at the Plaza Hotel ... been more important for the world's public and private sector leaders to uncover common goals...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Economic Security

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Michael R. Bloomberg Partners with Commissioner Arias Cañete to Support European Transition from Coal Power

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09/18/2018

... the economic opportunities of the clean energy transition in creating sustainable jobs and growth. The partnership will ... on the European Commission’s Platform for Coal Regions in Transition. Launched...

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