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Rita Allen Foundation Passionate About Funding Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems

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08/26/2015

... Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems The view from the third-floor corner office at 92 Nassau St. is one of ... and bustle of one of the busiest main streets in town. From where she sits, at a...

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... American Art Museum is leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort to build a shared, and ... through Linked Open Data (or LOD), SAAM received a grant from the Andrew M. Mellon...

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

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04/05/2016

... of New York’s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned ... community college in more than four decades, will relocate from Allied Partners’ 50 West 40th...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants 'Hamilton' Tix to Bronx Theatre High School Students

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04/07/2016

‘Hamilton’ Tickets for Students and Wisdom From Its Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the ... tickets through a nearly $1.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gilder Lehrman ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Youth Crime Prevention Program

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04/29/2016

... think the organization’s primary focus is removing guns from the streets. In fact, Memphis Gun Down exists to prevent the city’s youth from ever picking up a gun. A three-year Bloomberg ...

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Doris Duke Teams Up With Chicago's Stomping Grounds Dance Festival

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04/29/2016

... groups. STOMPING GROUNDS is made possible by major support from the Chicago Free For All Fund atThe Chicago Community ... Foundation, and Joyce Chelberg with additional funding from the National Endowment for...

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Century Foundation Report Analyzes 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face

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05/18/2016

... 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face A new report from the Century Foundation considers the issue of "identity ... in college. The report suggests that students face bias from some...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

... Identify Issues Facing Trans Community The journey from transitioning from male to female was a struggle for Kelly Leigh Metzgar. ...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining

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08/01/2016

... The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician ...

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Commonwealth Fund Brief Explains ACA’s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing, Spending on Premiums

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09/13/2016

... through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is protection from high out-of-pocket health spending. While Medicaid ... to comply with the law’s individual mandate also protect from high health spending.....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Supports Group to Register Dominican-American Political Power

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10/06/2016

... The non-profit group Dominicanos USA got initial funding from the Vicini family, wealthy Dominican sugar tycoons. But ... new funders in the last year, including other businesses from the Dominican Republic...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Picks 20 Nonprofits for 2016 Spark Prize

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10/12/2016

... civic, business, and neighborhood leaders all hailing from Brooklyn chose the 20 finalists from a highly competitive pool of 150 applicants... Brooklyn ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements

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10/14/2016

... A new study, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, from North Carolina State University, the University of ... and that what drives Black students to engage is different from what drives Latino students...

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Coalition Rallies against Cuomo’s Proposed Nuclear Plant Subsidies

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10/28/2016

... subsidize three upstate nuclear plants with $7.7 billion from electric ratepayers over the next 12 years. A small group of leaders from the groups made their case against the so-called Cuomo ...

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East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation's First Little Italy

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11/11/2016

... Avenue area in East Harlem got a $10,000 grant Thursday from the The New York State Council on the Arts and the ... it housed the largest concentration of Italian immigrants from the 1800s to the 1970s... East...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Americans Cost Barrier Decreasing, But More Improvement Needed

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11/17/2016

... Cost Barrier Decreasing, But More Improvement Needed From The Commonwealth Fund: A new survey of adults in the ... sick, or get recommended care because of the cost, down from 37 percent in 2013 (Exhibit 1)...

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Three Red Hook Nonprofits Are Finalists in Inaugural Brooklyn Community Foundation SPARK Prize

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11/28/2016

... Seventeen ae Brooklyn-based organizations, including three from Red Hook: Dance Theater Etcetera (DTE); Red Hook ... $100,000 will be awarded to five of the chosen finalists from the Brooklyn Community...

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Health Foundation for Western and Central New York Names New President

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01/25/2017

... and Central New York has recruited a new president from a Manhattan-based foundation. Nora OBrien-Suric will join the foundation in February from the John A. Hartford Foundation, a $565 million ...

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Simons Foundation Releases Statement on Executive Order on Visas and Immigration

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02/14/2017

... order on visas and immigration to the United States from seven Middle Eastern countries. The world, and most notably our nation, has benefited greatly from the free flow of people and ideas across national ...

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