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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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The New York Community Trust

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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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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 Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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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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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

... But some would argue that their biggest impact comes not from the money they give away, but from the far larger pile of assets they hold. Most of the ... was given away in total in the U.S.—that’s everything...

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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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Health

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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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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-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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Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

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10/04/2017

... population. After silent prayers and words of inspiration from our faith leaders, several hundred of us walked from the cathedral to the grounds of the state capitol to ... give voice to undocumented...

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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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Immigration

Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals

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10/10/2017

... that her lawyers say was unfairly stripped away from Shantell, who is intellectually disabled and a mother to ... welfare workers have removed Shantell’s three children from her care at various times,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Disabilities

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs and Lower ... Christensen of the University of Oregon and Scott Graffin from the University of...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

... have scanned nearly 4,000 prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection—building a website to make them ... The site, hosted at Stanford, was made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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Arts

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to start ... made by a University of Michigan (U-M) team using data from long-term health studies and...

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