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When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/15/2012

... website.) What does Jeremy Lin have to do with the future of philanthropy? When LINsanity comes to philanthropy ... Ruth Cummings and Jaimie Mayer Phinney, both trustees of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, at...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

... abandoning the oil business. But that is exactly what some of his heirs did last fall. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a ... foundation with $860 million in assets and a long history of supporting environmental...

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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative One of the biggest questions today in the sector commonly and ... declining trend, gently or rapidly, and there’s a lot of conventional wisdom out there about...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

Release Date:

08/19/2015

... Every day we are inundated with harrowing stories of desperation from refugees around the world. From those ... unknowns, there is one unavoidable fact: The number of refugee camps like the Zaatari is growing...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... year's $439 billion deficit. . . Michael Peterson, CEO of the anti-debt Peter G. Peterson Foundation, said in a .....

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Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs

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02/05/2016

... Island. The report, funded by the Rauch Foundation as part of the Long Island Index, uses RPA’s regional population ... possible strategies for creating an adequate supply of new housing. The study found that...

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Housing and Homelessness

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

... (and that includes the U.S. economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term trends , widely reported and acknowledged. They are: first, a weakening of the pull of...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... Wigan Pier. It projects that, if current household wealth trends (as have occurred between 1983 and 2013) continue ... by 2053 the median Black household would have a net worth of zero—meaning that at least...

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Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... poverty, in New York City. The new figures confirm trends reported in the Center for New York City Affairs’ ... Jobs, Rising Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health.” The Census...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Cities? People love living near the coast. Only two of the world's top 10 biggest cities — Mexico City and Sáo ... Angeles, Calcutta and Buenos Aires — are. Around half of the world's 7.5 billion...

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Online Giving Up, But Overall Giving Declines

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... fundraiser might attest. Recent overall and online-giving trends illustrate that unpredictability as overall giving for ... 0.8 percent as compared to the same three-month period of 2016, according to the...

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The Leon Levy Foundation and Charles H. Revson Foundation Fund New Nonprofit Local News Entity in New York City

Release Date:

09/28/2018

... criminal justice. Though New York still has its fair share of local news outlets, those are threatened by corporate ...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: Finding Workers Where They Are

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02/07/2019

... Finding Workers Where They Are It is surprising that one of the most successful and powerful social movements in the ... digital organizing strategy to recruit a new generation of workers.1 This is true even...

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United Hospital Fund Fellows Tackle Disparities on the Frontlines of Pediatric Care

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06/28/2023

... Hospital Fund Fellows Tackle Disparities on the Frontlines of Pediatric Care Eight graduates of United Hospital Fund’s ... projects represent five counties across New York state ...and have...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Program Recap—Philanthropy New York’s Documentary Film Series: Advise and Dissent

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10/16/2009

... mediums for promoting their missions and the work of their grantees. On September 15th, we were honored to ... , a documentary that captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the confirmation battles for three...

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Philanthropy Can Help Build a Thriving Democracy by Building Up Programs and Places That Fuel Civic Involvement

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01/20/2022

... piece was originally published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy on January 6, 2021. In an alternate universe, ... an inflection point in America’s decades-long story of democratic decline — a moment of...

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12 Jan 2023

COVID-19 Year Four: Implications for Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, January 12, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... an invitation to PNY members. As we begin year four of coping with the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Disaster ... complex humanitarian emergencies, as well as the positive ...

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