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Increasing Public Understanding of Muslim Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program

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03/16/2015

... Art (DDFIA) announced today that it is awarding nine U.S. nonprofit organizations a total of $1,653,698 in grants as a result of the Building Bridges Program’s second annual funding competition. “ In...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds

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05/06/2015

... Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds Brooklyn ... announce the launch of its cornerstone initiative, Invest in Youth, to improve social and economic...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal

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05/13/2015

... Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal NYC mayor Bill de Blasio will be raising funds ... First Lady Chirlane McCray, has already collected $50,000 in initial support for the New York...

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Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

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New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations

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05/12/2015

... to Secure Donations The Fund for Public Schools, the nonprofit organization that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ... grants that began under the Bloomberg administration. In an interview, Iris Chen, who has...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Pinkerton Foundation

Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance

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05/12/2015

... Square Foundation announced today a $3.1 million grant in support of Measures for Justice (MFJ), the first ... result is a set of measures designed to gauge performance in categories such as public safety,...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... Community loan funds are social-purpose, typically nonprofit , financial institutions that provide loans in underserved communities. The loans they make benefit ... funds have a 30+ year track record of...

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Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds

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07/30/2015

... Goldman Sachs helped to fund the first such program in the United States three years ago, a $9.6 million plan to ... Last month, the program's third-party monitor, the nonprofit Vera Institute, announced...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

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09/16/2015

... programming efforts and offers arts management training in fundraising, audience development and board member engagement. All selected nonprofit cultural organizations are locally or internationally recognized...

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MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

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09/18/2015

... quality, affordable financial tools and know-how for those in need” is the objective behind MetLife Foundation’s on-going efforts in communities across the world. Working in collaboration...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Communications/Media

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NoVo Foundation Picked by Cuomo to Create New York City Women's Center

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10/27/2015

... Cuomo’s administration picked the NoVo Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, to redevelop a former prison in New York City into a building for groups that advocate...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey: Healthcare Unaffordable for Many Even With Insurance

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11/20/2015

... More Americans have health insurance now than at any time in the past decade, but many are finding that even with ... released Friday from a national survey conducted by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund. The...

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Health

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... foundations, I’ve overseen more than $1 billion in grants to nonprofits doing vital work—from educating ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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The New York Community Trust

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... credit unions, community colleges, employers and other nonprofit organizations to design, build and test solutions ...

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As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats

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01/22/2016

... share of low-income students and students who live in temporary housing, according to the city. The roughly $650,000 gift was coordinated by the nonprofit Operation Warm and funded by several families’ ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund) This issue of The NonProfit Times started hitting the postal stream just as the ... people of Iowa were caucusing and the outcome was still in doubt. Eyes are trained on New...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... of their choosing as the 2016–17 Tow Playwright- in -Residence. The residency program includes a full-time ... for each playwright, and the residencies will culminate in a full production of a play by each...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas A new study comparing accountable care ... that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas,...

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Health

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Clark Foundation Illustrates Grantmaking for a Rainy Day

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05/02/2016

... Day Recent years have seen a gradual but marked shift in philanthropy, from a traditional emphasis on program- or ... organizations to build their management infrastructure in addition to (and in...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... their biggest bets. Those may be worthy recipients but, in the eyes of some in the philanthropic community, they are not at the forefront ... to feed malnourished children, and another in...

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