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New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech

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05/05/2017

... will attract biotech startups. Since its launch in 2005, the nonprofit has become a pillar of the life sciences community ...

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JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset Building in Communities of Color

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05/26/2017

JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset-Building in Communities of Color The mix of funders worried about America's vast racial gaps in wealth and opportunity is increasingly diverse and ... committed to investing $2...

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NYC Youth Funders Accepting RFPs for 2017 Cycle

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06/02/2017

... RFPs for 2017 Cycle What Arbor Brothers Is Seeking: Nonprofit organizations in the fields of education, youth, or workforce development Located in and serving primarily populations in...

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IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy IBM is channeling its science and tech expertise into tackling some of the world's biggest problems. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced the launch of...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families

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08/25/2017

... Children and Families Sheltering Arms, Georgia’s largest nonprofit early education and child care organization, ... 180 children and their families of mixed incomes in the Peoplestown community. As Sheltering...

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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

... Is Expanding On a recent afternoon, Charlene Davis sat in a dimly lit room across from the holding cells on the ... for jail. Ms. Davis, who works for a criminal justice nonprofit contracted by the city, was...

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

... Scores of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United Nations ... rich donors, high-level government executives, and lots of nonprofit leaders all on stage...

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My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation

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09/07/2017

... initiative that later spun off into a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, or ... gap for young men and boys of color. As he launched MBK in 2014, he prefaced his...

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LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors

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09/07/2017

LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors The revolution in civil and legal rights for LGBTQ Americans has wrought a parallel shift in fundraising tactics for nonprofits that worked to bring ... States. The...

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The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy

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09/12/2017

The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy In an article published earlier this year, we asked ... on super-strategic communications efforts that will result in lasting change. But starting this...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... show appearances. But the main goal of their two days in Vermont did not involve knives or whisks, split-second ... and wrestling with some of the thorniest policy issues in the food system. The diverse group...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about ... advocates are ringing alarm bells. WNYC and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom focused on...

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program ... city students. But Jewish advocates say 30,000 students in yeshivas aren’t getting the free meals...

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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

... That It Can Cut Evictions At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over landlord-tenant disputes, about 30 people stand in line, waiting to speak to a clerk. They’re...

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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... a barrier success. "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of opportunity," Buffett ... conference in Omaha. Buffett...

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Former Microsoft CEO and Wife Pledge $60 Million to Fight Social Inequality

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10/05/2017

... years to a program created by StriveTogether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve education for low-income ... centers on reducing racial and socioeconomic disparities in educational success and...

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Economic Security

Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a foothold in the bond market. There are $...

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Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality

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12/12/2017

... non-profit counterparts. They argue the bill, passed in the waning days of this year's legislative session and now .....

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

... Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods ... Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and...

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