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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches $3 Million Fund for Coal Communities

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04/27/2017

Establishing a $3 Million Initiative to Support On-The-Job Training, Economic Development and New Career Opportunities in Communities Left Behind by the Declining Coal Industry

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.

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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems

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04/27/2017

Having Medicaid is not only substantially better than being uninsured, but it provides enrollees with health insurance that on most measures is as good as or, in some cases, better than private coverage, according to new a Commonwealth Fund report.

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Friend or Foe? Philanthropy Should Welcome New Styles of Giving

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04/27/2017

Silicon Valley Community Foundation's Maeve Miccio says we should welcome the different types of giving styles David Callahan outlines in his new book "The Givers."

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

Rajiv Shah, the new president of the Rockefeller Foundation, is no stranger to politics or philanthropy.

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Heineken Just Put Out the Antidote to That Pepsi Kendal Jenner Ad

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04/27/2017

Two strangers with polar opposite views meet in this Heineken ad, which gets political in a way that Pepsi would do well to consider next time.

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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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04/26/2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowships, with awards totaling $7 million.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

Mobile data collection is helping Mobile, Alabama and Los Angeles clean up city streets

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Supported by JPB Foundation, Harvard Study Finds Illinois Soda Tax Could Cut Health Costs, Raise $561 Million in Revenue Annually

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04/26/2017

A penny-per-ounce state tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could raise $561 million a year in new revenue for Illinois, while also saving millions in health care costs associated with obesity and diabetes, according to a new study released Tuesday by...