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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

Among the goals Teresa Younger has set for herself as the new chief executive of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to "diversify our grant making and what philanthropy looks like."

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Kathleen Regan To Join Commonwealth Fund As Executive Vice President and COO

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07/09/2014

Kathleen Regan will become The Commonwealth Fund’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on Jan. 1, 2015, succeeding John E. Craig, Jr.

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Health

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Nick Hodges Named COO and Senior Vice President For Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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07/09/2014

Nick Hodges has been named chief operating officer and senior vice president for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children

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07/09/2014

The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.

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Open Society Foundations Award $5 Million Challenge Grant To Strengthen Innocence Project

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07/09/2014

A $5 million challenge grant from The Open Society Foundations will help the Innocence Project's efforts to establish a $20 million reserve fund.

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Barnard Receives Mellon Grant for Digital Access Initiative

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07/09/2014

Barnard College has received $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a major new academic initiative: Barnard Teaches: Real Place + Digital Access.

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Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies At 83

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07/08/2014

Claire Tow, who founded The Tow Foundation with her husband, Leonard, in 1988, died Monday at age 83, following a 14-year struggle with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS).

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Note to Funders: If You Believe in the Importance of Leadership, Fund What Leaders Want to Do

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07/08/2014

Nancy Wackstein, executive director, United Neighborhood Houses of New York, on why funders should trust nonprofit leaders they already trust to make the best decisions about to spend grant money to advance their organizations' missions.

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Banks that Actually Serve Communities, What a Novel Idea

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07/08/2014

Former Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Saqib Bhatti hones in on an idea from the 'Future of Finance' program: Public banks.

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The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes notes, the idea was first advanced 125 years ago when Andrew Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie Corporation of New York, wrote an essay encouraging other...

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