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Responding to Haitian Devastation, At Home

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08/16/2010

... York State Health Foundation The devastating earthquake in Port au Prince in January has lately fallen off many people’s radar, for lots of reasons: six months is a long...

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It's Time for More Foundations to Fund Democracy - Here's How

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12/10/2020

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Co-Chair, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Democratic ... diverse as the country itself, yet here is one thing all in common...

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Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

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05/04/2016

... complex world challenges, such as widening gaps in opportunity and income, and environmental degradation. ... global impact and actually challenge entrenched systems of inequality. Too many similar scholarship...

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Research Yields Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola

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09/19/2014

Research Yields Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)-led research, published today in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, describes ... and improve...

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Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

... & Strategy, Arcus Foundation There’s been a lot of discussion in the philanthropic community about the need for funders to ... the wild and the most recent data on the threats to their survival...

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New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'

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07/08/2015

... Women as the 'Invisible Population' For many women in their 60s and older, Social Security checks are the all-important means of survival . But for older female immigrants those...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

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02/22/2016

... a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation) One afternoon in late January, prominent New York restaurateurs, including ... the stage at the Ford Foundation to celebrate the release of a new book by Saru Jayaraman,...

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Economic Security

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the surfaces of the space station ... goal is to find something beneficial to Earth and mankind in general...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

... New Jersey’s education commissioner to force the merger of Morristown and Morris Township schools in 1971. Yet the Morris School District has endured, ... renaissance and, some would say, a beacon of...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Others Partner to Launch '50 Reefs' Global Initiative to Protect Critical Ecosystem

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02/28/2017

... to Protect Critical Ecosystem Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ... Agency, and the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, has announced the...

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Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win

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09/14/2017

Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win A ... Council will have fewer women, down from 13 seats to 12 in the 51-member body. In one of the...

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Aetna Foundation’s Healthiest Communities Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health

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03/26/2018

... Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health The purpose of the Healthiest Communities project is to provide ... communities that can show measurable improvements in their...

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Artists at the Center: A New Doris Duke Initiative

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12/21/2012

... The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has supported artists in jazz, contemporary dance and theatre in creating, ... more than a decade. Nevertheless, we were painfully aware of the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Names Four Renowned Leaders in Global Service, Academia, and Management to its Board of Directors

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01/15/2014

... Advisors (RPA) has elected four new members to its Board of Directors: writer and historian Barbara Bellows ... honored to welcome back a founding board member, an expert in human needs investments, a...

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24 Feb 2016

The Art of Moving Research to Impact

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2:45pm to 5:00pm

* In -person registration is currently at capacity. We encourage ... to advance knowledge, improve the quality and credibility of research in a discipline area, or move a policy agenda. As leaders...

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06 Jun 2019

POSTPONED: Food Fight: NYC Youth vs. Predatory Marketing

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... such education competes against $2 billion dollars in annual marketing aimed at making unhealthy junk foods more ... unhealthy diet and diet-related diseases, the importance of teaching youth about healthy...

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18 Jun 2020

The Climate Crisis & COVID-19: Internationalism – A Webinar Hosted by CLIMA Fund

Thursday, June 18, 2020 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... a first come, first served basis.* This webinar is a part of a five-part series, End of the World as We Know It? The ... is still up for grabs. What role does philanthropy play in supporting...

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