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Bloomberg Takes Public Innovation Initiative to Europe

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... was in Berlin last week to support the European edition of the Mayors Challenge initiative, which encourages ... to come up with fresh ideas that can improve the lives of urban denizens everywhere. “I believe...

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Economic Security

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NYSCF's Cutting-Edge Research Explored In New York Times Magazine Cover Story

Release Date:

06/27/2014

... and pioneering efforts to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial diseases from mother to child is explored in ... involves transferring into a donor egg the nucleus of an egg cell from a woman affected by...

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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Health

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Critic Calls Grants Aligned With Government Programs "Crony Philanthropy"

Release Date:

07/07/2014

... students attain a college education is an example of corporate leaders using philanthropy to curry favor with ... saying he has "no doubt at all that helping young men of color…is a crucial goal," he...

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UBS Financial Services Inc.

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Open Society Foundations Award $5 Million Challenge Grant To Strengthen Innocence Project

Release Date:

07/09/2014

... by the justice system. Since 1992, 317 people (18 of whom served time on death row) have been exonerated by DNA evidence; the Innocence Project was involved in 173 of these cases. “Today, I can think ...

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Rauch Foundation Strives to Restore Long Island's Water

Release Date:

10/08/2014

... will to address the problem has been missing at the state level. It's become customary in American politics to ... know that we want action on this issue before the end of the year. The problem is that...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New Philanthropy Center, Fund for 2025 Respond to Funders’ Needs

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10/24/2014

... Needs Philanthropy New York, a "regional association of grantmakers with global impact," announced on Monday that ... to establish a new Philanthropy Center at the "crossroads of the world...

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NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial

Release Date:

02/04/2015

... their girlfriends and wives. In many cases, the charges of domestic violence were not taken seriously or were dismissed. Before Tamerlan Tsarnaev was suspected of carrying out the bombing of...

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Gender Justice

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Eighteen Cultural Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

Release Date:

05/07/2015

... Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York The recipients are well-established ... science centers. The organizations are: American Museum of Natural History; Asia Society; Brooklyn...

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Arts

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers Insight on Employing Millennials

Release Date:

05/08/2015

... full-time workers in eight countries, and in companies of varying sizes, about what makes today’s workers ... less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

Release Date:

08/04/2015

... Career Services for Low-Income Individuals As part of a vigorous new effort to help jobless Americans upgrade ... skills deficit has kept them trapped in poverty. "One of the biggest challenges facing...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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25 Aug 2015

Peace, Conflict, and the Scale of the Climate Risk Landscape - Webinar

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 -

1:15pm to 2:45pm

... Security series will examine the security implications of climate risk to provide a context for the subsequent ... technical). Climate risk will disrupt a large number of systems, including at the sub-national...

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All Funders

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Economic Security

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NY Charities Bureau Launches Searchable Database of Non-Profit Dissolutions Approved by Attorney General

Release Date:

08/07/2015

NY Charities Bureau Launches Searchable Database of Non-Profit Dissolutions Approved by Attorney General As ... you are aware, New York’s Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 made changes to the procedures...

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JPMorgan and Citi-Backed Program is Bridge Between Youth Unemployment, Growing Skills Gap

Release Date:

08/21/2015

... similar high-growth employment sectors. According to the " State of St. Louis STEM Workforce 2014," a report created by St. ... Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, the Archdiocese of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Is Travel the New Face of Philanthropy?

Release Date:

09/28/2015

Is Travel the New Face of Philanthropy? America has always been considered one of the most generous nations, but now there's even more ... new study called "Good Travels: The Philanthropic Profile...

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