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CUNY Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund To Aid Students Impacted By Covid-19 Pandemic Grows By 70 Percent Since April Launch

August 26th, 2020

Generosity of Foundations, Corporations and Individual Donors Enables University to Help 6,000 Students, More than Half of Them Undocumented Students Who Were Excluded from Federal CARES Act Relief Fund Now Surpasses $5.5 Million, to Help More Than 5,000 Additional Students The City University of New York’s Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund, established in the spring to … Continued

The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Awards $4.2M to Seven Rising Leaders in Cancer Research

July 29th, 2020 / The Pershing Square Foundation

The Pershing Square Sohn Prize Has Supported 46 Cancer Scientists in the New York Life Science Ecosystem by Funding High-Risk, High-Reward Research NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance today announced the seven winners of the 2020 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, awarded annually to cancer research scientists and … Continued

Donors still wary of no-strings cash gifts to tackle poverty

March 2nd, 2020 / Sarah Murray, Financial Times

Every few minutes on the GiveDirectly news feed an image pops up along with the story of someone who has received one of the US charity’s money transfers. For example, 23-year-old Millicent, who has a pastry business in Kenya, is using a recent transfer of $39 to fix her oven, and Anna, a 51-year-old Ugandan … Continued

How the Giving Pledge Pushes Smarter Philanthropy

June 6th, 2019 / Marc Gunther

Originally, Bill and Melinda Gates had hoped to do more than encourage giving by the wealthy. They envisioned the Giving Pledge as a way to promote effective philanthropy that would help solve the world’s big problems — a mission not unlike that of the foundation that bears their names and reflects their values. The Gateses and Warren … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: City and Robin Hood Announce New “Know Your Rights” Forums for Immigrant Communities & Workers

December 20th, 2018 / NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs

Combined, investing $350,000 to inform immigrant New Yorkers about latest federal immigration policy shifts and how City’s here to help City expects to reach over 5,000 New Yorkers at forums across the five boroughs by Summer 2019, particularly immigrant and domestic workers MANHATTAN—Today, Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Bitta Mostofi joined City agency and community partners—including Lutheran … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: The Charles Bronfman Prize Names Amy Bach as 2018 Recipient

September 5th, 2018

The Charles Bronfman Prize announced its 2018 recipient: Amy Bach, Founder, Executive Director and President of Measures for Justice, the first organization to publicly measure how the entire criminal justice system is performing in all counties across the United States by collecting, analyzing and comparing county-level data. “Amy’s work revealed a critical gap in our … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and Fit4D Secure Robin Hood Foundation Grant to Offer Diabetes Management Program

November 30th, 2017

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and Fit4D have received a major grant award from the Pershing Square Immigrant Opportunity Fund at Robin Hood. This grant will provide both organizations with the opportunity to offer personalized coaching to diabetes patients in managing this disease. Bronx-Lebanon’s Department of Family Medicine will be spearheading the initiative. Diabetes is a chronic … Continued

A Better Gala—Here’s How This Foundation Marked a Key Milestone

June 16th, 2017 / Susan Barnett, Guest Contributor (Inside Philanthropy)

When David Callahan, Inside Philanthropy’s founder, was unable to attend the Pershing Square Foundation’s recent 10th-anniversary gala, he conscripted me to go in his stead. He told me the foundation, started by the hedge funder Bill Ackman and his wife Karen, is one of the more interesting new funders to emerge from the finance world … Continued

Ackman, Counting Philanthropic Wins…

June 9th, 2017 / Amanda Gordon (Bloomberg)

… Commitments have risen and fallen with his funds’ performance, but the foundation has pledged a total of about $400 million since inception and generated plenty of success stories that were shared at the group’s 10th anniversary celebration. Frederick Wiseman thanked Ackman for supporting his documentaries like the one on the New York Public Library … Continued

Behavioral ‘nudges’ offer a cost-effective policy tool

June 8th, 2017

Governments around the world have increasingly turned to behavioral science to help address various policy problems – new research shows that some of the best-known strategies derived from behavioral science, commonly referred to as ‘nudges,’ may be extremely cost effective. The new study, which examined the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical intervention strategies like financial … Continued

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