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On Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn: Start With Existing Community Assets

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03/16/2017

Bronwyn Starr at the New York State Health Foundation says, "there is an existing cadre of individuals, community leaders and organizations working block-by-block to build upon community strengths...my hope is that Vital Brooklyn will build on these...

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their part to help farmers raising animals—as well as food companies, restaurant owners and chefs sourcing animal products - understand welfare certification...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Research And Policy Guidance Around Planning For Autonomous Vehicles

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03/16/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute launched an initiative last year aimed at formulating a framework and best practices for governments to follow. The program, which includes 10 international cities, expects to release its first...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

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Proteus Fund Announces a New Funder Collaborative to Oppose the Use of Religious Exemptions to Undermine Fundamental Rights

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03/16/2017

The Rights Faith & Democracy Collaborative (RFDC) is a newly created grantmaking fund that opposes the inappropriate use of religious exemptions to curtail reproductive health, rights and justice, discriminate against members of the LGBTQ...

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Supported by Rockefeller, $10 Million Water Window Challenge Announces Winners

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03/17/2017

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), has announced the twelve winners of the Water Window Challenge.

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

As the philanthropic arm of an insurance company, the Aetna Foundation has a special appreciation of what happens when the underlying causes of poor health go unaddressed—namely, all of society gets hit with higher healthcare costs.

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Village Capital And Metlife Foundation Announce Partnership

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03/17/2017

Village Capital, in partnership with MetLife Foundation, is launching a multi-year program to build the ecosystem for financial inclusion startups in Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, and the UAE, and support top financial technology startups in each region.

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United Hospital Fund Supports Guide on Basic Care Techniques for PICC Lines

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03/17/2017

United Hospital Fund Supports Guide on Basic Care Techniques for PICC Lines United Hospital Fund (UHF) today released a detailed guide for home care patients and their family caregivers that explains in straightforward text and...

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NYS Health Foundation Launches ‘Health Reform Watch’

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03/17/2017

The health care landscape is changing rapidly in 2017. As Congress sets out to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the implications for health care across the country and here in New York State could be profound.

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

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03/20/2017

Melinda Mack at New York Association of Training & Employment Professionals writes, "In my experience, well-intentioned government and policymaking bodies are overly risk-averse to anything new, even if it is evidence-based (which is why the...

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

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03/20/2017

David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...

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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

Thanks to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign (which I have supported through my foundation), we have already achieved two-thirds of the emissions reductions envisioned by President Obama’s yet-to-be-implemented power plant regulations.

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Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Piece on 'Fake Freedom' of GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

Last week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the new Republican health plan would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 24 million people within a decade, mostly because changes in regulations, subsidies and Medicaid...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer

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03/20/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Craig Mellendick as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Foundation.

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Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund have remained focused on the issue but are leery of stepping too far into the debate on particular pieces of legislation.

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Rockefeller, Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit'

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03/20/2017

The Open Road Alliance, The Rockefeller Foundation and Arabella Advisors collaborated on "Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit," which is described as "the first practical, comprehensive framework providing guidance to funders on how to...

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George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

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03/21/2017

Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are asking the state to raise their taxes.

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New App Connects Hungry Children With Restaurants

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03/21/2017

An app that helps fellow students in need get an after-school meal is among the finalists in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow Contest.

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