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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

NYTimes examines how the processed food, soda and fast food industries’ increasing focus on markets in the developing world — and the accompanying rise in obesity rates and weight-related illnesses — is playing out around the globe.

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks

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09/19/2017

As hurricanes and floods grab headlines, heatwaves associated with climate change are claiming lives around the world.

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Environment and Climate Change

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A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

Employee resource groups — voluntary workplace networks organized around identities (race, gender, sexual orientation) or interests (animal welfare, education) — can be great conduits between companies with philanthropic dollars to spend and...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes in third among the three most generous donors (numbered among the 10 richest people in the United States), for giving more than 10 percent of his fortune to charity since 2000.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

This conversation features Cynthia Agyeman , Community Organizer & Amy Blumsack , Community Action Program Director at Neighbors Together

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Video

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Community Development

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New York Foundation

Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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Health

Science

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The Simons Foundation

Wallace Foundation: New Report Sheds Light on How Effective Nonprofits Expand Their Reach Through Partnerships

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09/19/2017

In successfully scaling up social programs through partnerships, 45 diverse nonprofits faced three key choices: their partner, their approach to spreading their work, and their call on the balance between fidelity and flexibility at the expansion...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.

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