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Dodge Foundation Awards $4.4 Million In Grants For Arts, Education, Environment, Media

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07/16/2014

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation recently approved $4.4 million in 90 grants to arts, education, environment and media nonprofit organizations throughout New Jersey.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 10-Fold Increase in Grant Distributions

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07/25/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation fund holders directed over $200,000 in grants—more than 90 percent going to Brooklyn nonprofits—for the first six months of 2014, a 10-fold increase over the same period last year.

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Arts

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Brooklyn Org

American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical American household has declined by more than a third over the past 10 years, according to a study underwritten by the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Economic Security

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Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, Dies

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07/25/2014

Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former head of Bear Stearns, who raised hundreds of millions for the UJA-Federation of New York over his decades of involvement with the organization, and who instilled the importance of giving to charity in his employees,...

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09 Oct 2014

We Are Many - Documentary Film Series

Thursday, October 9, 2014 -

5:30pm to 9:00pm

Join us for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the documentary We Are Many and a brief panel discussion.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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7/24/2014 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy Program - PPT Presentation

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07/2014

View PowerPoint presentations presented during the program, "Inspiring Action to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy."

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More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups

Release Date:

07/25/2014

If foundations want social change groups to have more impact, they need to step up investments that will help them make better use of technology, writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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7/22/14 - The Rollback on Reproductive Justice - PPTs and materials

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07/2014

View articles and the PowerPoint Presentations presented during the program The Rollback on Reproductive Rights and Justice.

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Children, Youth and Families

"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

America needs to take steps to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, write David Blumenthal, M.D., president, and David Squires, senior researcher to the president, The...

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Health

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Weinberg Foundation To Make $700,000 in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits in Israel

Release Date:

07/29/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced today it will donate $700,000 to support many of its active grantees that have provided crucial social services to those affected by rocket attacks on cities in Israel.

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Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce

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07/28/2014

Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline Of Women in Workforce As economists search for an explanation for why the percentage of women in the United States who are working or want to work has been...

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Gender Justice

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Atlantic Seeks To Sustain Gains From Past Work As Grantmaking Nears Conclusion

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07/30/2014

As Atlantic Philanthropies moves closer to completing all its grantmaking by 2016, it also is taking steps "to effectively realise and sustain gains in the core issues and fields that we and our grantees have seeded and cultivated over time," says...

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Report Shows Some Success For NYC's Young Men's Initiative

Release Date:

07/28/2014

A program started during former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, and which received support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Open Society Foundations, was successful at increasing job placement and internship attendance for at-risk males...

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Private-Public Partnership Commits $350 Million For Affordable NYC Housing

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07/30/2014

Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are joining with the city and other banks to provide longtime affordable-housing lender Community Preservation Corp. $350 million to invest in struggling NYC neighborhoods.

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Community Development

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Morgan Stanley

18 Sep 2014

Inequality, Democracy and Corporate Power

Thursday, September 18, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

A series of Supreme Court decisions; Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, Shelby v FEC and McCutcheon v FEC, have expanded corporate constitutional rights and limited the ability of Congress and the states to protect voting rights and regulate campaign...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Ernest Tollerson Interim CEO

Release Date:

07/31/2014

Ernest Tollerson has been named interim CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

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Environment and Climate Change

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Three Named Winners For Best Green Business Ideas In Western Balkans

Release Date:

07/31/2014

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced the 2014 winners of the Philanthropy for Green Ideas competition, a program it co-sponsors to encourage business ideas that will contribute to a better, more sustainable life for people in the Western...

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