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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

A new program to help Detroit home buyers finance purchases will guarantee 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values.

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Ford Foundation

Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

Release Date:

02/19/2016

A recent Center for Strategic and International Studies event, 'Impact Investing: An Opportunity for Development?,' brought together a panel of experts to discuss impact investing and its potential to address global issues.

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International/Global Affairs

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

Release Date:

02/18/2016

A rigorous approach to measuring charitable ROI (return on investment) is becoming more popular in the Jewish communal world and UJA-Federation of New York, which will celebrate its centennial next year, is wading into this world of metrics...

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Jewish Communities

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UJA-Federation of New York

Philanthropic & Social Enterprise Leader Betsy Fader Joins Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

02/18/2016

The Surdna Foundation named Betsy Fader, a leader in the philanthropic and social enterprise sectors, as Vice President, Programs.

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Surdna Foundation

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Gates Foundation Names Robert Hughes as New K-12 Strategy Director

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Robert L. Hughes, President of New Visions for Public Schools, will become the new director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's K-12 education strategy.

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Education

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

American Express-Supported NYFA Emerging Leaders Boot Camp Participants Named

Release Date:

02/18/2016

As the intensive professional-development program from the New York Foundation for the Arts turns three, a new cohort of arts administrators has been selected.

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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American Express

Howard Gilman Foundation

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia.

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Health & Human Services

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Rita Allen Foundation

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Susan Olivo of Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation says that the starting point for more inclusive philanthropy is simply to reframe your thinking.

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Disabilities

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

Release Date:

02/17/2016

The Wallace-commissioned Out-of-School-Time Cost Calculator is a free, online tool designed to help providers estimate the costs of delivering a variety of after-school and summer programs. It's been updated and made accessible for mobile.

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Education & Youth

Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

Release Date:

02/17/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with Art in America, has launched a pilot writing fellowship to support arts and culture writing in regions of the country that are often underrepresented in the media. The goal of the program is to...

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Communications/Media

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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