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Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

... and moderate donors and foundations alike have scrambled to respond to the Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so through the ... taken some different angles so far, in that he’s sought to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

... Network Capital Funding Corp. opened an office in Miami to scoop up an attractive subset of college graduates—those ...

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Workforce Development

JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

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09/15/2017

... Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods JPMorgan Chase wants to do for Chicago's South and West sides what it has begun to do for Detroit. The nation's biggest bank, and also the ... to...

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

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Community Development

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Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

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09/18/2017

Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September Senate Republican ... leaders seem increasingly focused on reviving their effort to undo the Affordable Care Act...

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Health

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals Many ... week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see what they can do...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity An EU-funded index ... measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for ... and governments are...

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Food Systems

Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of ... Jay Xu, of the gift, which brings the pan-Asian museum up to the $61-million mark for fund -raising...

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... librarians and TV news professionals will make the journey to Vanderbilt University next year to discuss the future of preserving broadcast television ... for Research Libraries—will work with participants...

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Communications/Media

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... community bellyaching about a program they want their kids to receive. De Blasio rolled out the federally funded program ...

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Education

‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

... New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim to resolve neighborhood conflicts before they turn violent. ... streets on a daily basis and use their connections to resolve disputes before they...

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Justice Reform

Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII

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10/03/2017

Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII The Geneva lawyer for the heirs ... they are “absolutely delighted” about a hard-won deal to recover from a Swiss town a 19th-century painting by ... 80,...

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Children’s Health Care Bill Faces New Obstacles

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10/05/2017

... (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) should be attached to the children’s health funding bill. Senate Finance ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a ... markets around the world. Corporations have ready access to those dollars. For example,...

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Community Development

A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market

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10/10/2017

... and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions to generate sustainable returns and better manage risk. On a human level, it means incorporating the desire to make a difference in the world into the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce ... more than $1 billion in funding for nonprofits that seek to close gaps in education and the labor market nationwide. To...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Workforce Development

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future

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11/22/2017

... have long operated by noblesse oblige, seeking to blunt the sharp edges of capitalism by funding programs ... philanthropy we must move from a perspective of generosity to a perspective of justice,"...

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017

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11/28/2017

... Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017 The Bank of America ... in the fourth quarter are more than $570,000 in grants to nonprofits that support community...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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When Venture Philanthropy Meets Organizing: A Page from Propel Capital’s Playbook

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01/30/2018

... started Propel Capital in 2008, we sought innovative ways to leverage capital for social impact. We looked across ... could we persuade other larger pools of capital to follow on and invest in line with their...

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Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism

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02/23/2018

... on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism Racial disparities in philanthropic giving are fundamentally about whom we trust to lead us to change, whom we think...

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