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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington DC-based foresight consultancy. Supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, the report encapsulates a .....

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago ... waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive ... Impact? Trust grantee achievements include a commitment from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove minors...

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The New York Community Trust

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NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director

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07/28/2016

... and staffing the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund. Michele comes from Dance/NYC where she served as equity and inclusion ... Global Fund for Women. Michele has a bachelor’s degree from Brown in development studies and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from prestigious campuses seen as opening doors to top ... Initiative, aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students...

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Education

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs

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01/12/2017

... was the Principal Consultant at Hummingbird Consulting from 2013 - 2016. Lisa sits on the boards of Brooklyn ... served as the Board President of the Red Hook Initiative from 2005 - 2013. Lisa is a third-...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... foundations, the report, A Date Certain: Lessons From Limited Life Foundations (50 pages,...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... to distinguish the mixed-gender squads in the steamy woods from those of earlier generations...

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Gender Justice

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding ... housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To be sure, the big banks...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... simple assumption. Organizations involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint, seem to offer more influence and ... to disseminate and publicize the results that derive from their project grants. But...

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Science

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. ... born with higher birthweight appeared to be at risk from a young age,” researcher...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,000 individual items ... audio recordings and video are all included. Items date from the 1850s to the present and...

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Arts

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CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

... Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest ... underwriting loss through the first six months of 2017, up from a $48 million underwriting...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

... Reform In September 1999, Deanna Hoskins was released from a community-based correctional facility after serving ... of a one-year prison sentence. She was 30 and suffering from substance abuse problems. Today...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

... Jersey Leaders President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, ... in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states. It would...

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Community Development

Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. ... numbers, NCDs don’t receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

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09/27/2017

... churning piles of information, there are pieces missing from the open government puzzle. Since the National Oceanic ... those data sets and knowledge should have been available from the start. Although the...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... the world is at my fingertips. I can order takeout from a local restaurant, express-deliver flowers to a friend ... their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct mail to online-only...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three countries—Democratic Republic of the ... of all refugees resettled in the United States came from countries in Africa (primarily ...

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