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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard University and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities across America and around the...

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New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana

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08/25/2016

New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in Louisiana with a $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

William Codery, program officer of Surdna Foundation’s Strong Local Economies program, advises that "in order to create the ecosystem needed for local communities to thrive economically, socially and culturally, we have to invest in their success at...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

The foundation will support the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University's launch of local/national news partnership project that will show community sites in Jersey how, for example, they can produce the same eye-catching data...

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John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine

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08/25/2016

JAHF President Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, will receive The New York Academy of Medicine’s Award for Exceptional Service to the Academy in a ceremony on Nov. 3, 2016. Dr. Fulmer is one of five distinguished leaders to be honored that day by the...

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Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes

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08/24/2016

Marist College and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records.

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Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments

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08/24/2016

Kim Lew, chief investment officer of the Carnegie Corporation, raised another concern in the low-return environment: the move by endowments into riskier assets.

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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

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08/24/2016

Major philanthropies like the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation have invested deeply in finding a small number of great philanthropic investments—but they have been unusual.