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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

Well-targeted grants make a huge difference. It’s even more effective when a foundation like the New York Community Trust pools the gifts of generous neighbors, then joins other funders and government agencies to bring about change.

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

Recent announcements by healthcare insurers of leaving healthcare marketplaces have brought focus the fundamental question of whether the ACA marketplaces are enrolling sufficient numbers of people to ensure a well-balanced risk pool of healthy...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

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12/07/2015

Bob Doherty, New Jersey president for Bank of America, said that the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is contributing $2 for every $1 given to eligible food banks this year, up to a total match of $1.5 million.

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Food Systems

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Tenants Take the Hit as New York Fails to Police Huge Housing Tax Break

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12/07/2015

Top developer Two Trees Management overcharged renters for years but still cashed in on $10 million in tax cuts the city never officially approved, ProPublica investigators found.

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Housing and Homelessness

Westchester Community Foundation Names Jennifer Hu Corriggio as Philanthropy Chief

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12/07/2015

Westchester Community Foundation has named Jennifer Hu Corriggio of Scarsdale its director of philanthropy and donor relations.

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The New York Community Trust

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Nominate Your Colleagues for the PNY Board of Directors

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12/07/2015

We seek leaders who will help Philanthropy New York move its goals forward and strengthen the organization.

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03 Feb 2016

It’s PUBLIC Transit: Funders Look at New Initiatives to Connect NYC’s People & Places

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9:00am to 11:00am

We face a unique moment in the life of public transit in New York. After three decades of steadily improving service, quality indicators have started to decline. You see it every day: train cars break down more often, delays have gone up,...

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Make Room for Makerspaces

Release Date:

12/08/2015

Leigh Ross, Program Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in NYCT says these community-oriented workspaces are proliferating, and funders are taking notice.

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Arcus, NoVo Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Philanthropy Initiative to Improve the Lives of Transgender People

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12/08/2015

The Arcus Foundation and the NoVo Foundation announced a five-year philanthropic initiative, totaling $20 million, focused on improving the lives of transgender people worldwide.

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LGBTQ

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Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit

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12/08/2015

Bank of America Charitable Foundation distributed nearly $1 million in community giving to 24 nonprofits focused on ensuring individuals and families in metropolitan Detroit have access to basic needs and services.

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Selects Genaro Lopez-Rendon as Next President

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12/08/2015

Genaro Lopez-Rendon, a 40-year-old community organizer and father from San Antonio, has been selected as president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation.

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De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

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12/08/2015

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who became a scourge of the wealthy with a vow to raise their taxes, has enlisted members of the financial elite, including Morgan Stanley, to advance his agenda.

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Economic Security

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

With support from MetLife Foundation, Duke University is launching the CommonCents Lab, an initiative that will apply behavioral economics to identify new ways to help millions of Americans improve their saving and spending habits.

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

States’ health care systems improved more than they declined, and access to care expanded across the nation, The Commonwealth Fund’s latest Scorecard on State Health System Performance finds.

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change

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12/09/2015

The Nathan Cummings Foundation lauded as embracing a broader, more pragmatic portfolio of approaches to climate change.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

Rockefeller backs start-up that uses big data, electronic communication and insights from behavioral finance to nudge folks to make smarter choices.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Kress and Mellon Support First Academic Art Museum and Library Summit

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12/09/2015

The Summit will focus on the ways that new pedagogical models and technologies are transforming the work of the academy, and the potential for art museums and libraries to engage more fully with faculty, students, and each other.

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

Release Date:

12/09/2015

The Simons Foundation and Autism Speaks have entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest repositories of donated postmortem brain tissue for medical research, Autism BrainNet and the NIH...

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