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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 ... and big goals. Peterson and his son Michael Peterson, the president of the...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

... Today, Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the launch of the Brooklyn Accelerator, a unique component of its new ... from the community,” said Brooklyn Community Foundation President...

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New York Community Trust Launches 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Competition

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03/05/2015

... we need well-run nonprofits,” said Lorie Slutsky, president of The New York Community Trust, one of the region’s leading funders of nonprofits. “Our ...

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Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids

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03/30/2015

... we think about a crucial problem. The recent publication of Robert Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis ... and help fuel changes in public policy. Putnam is one of many researchers now grappling...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Ford Foundation Provides $500 Thousand for Relief Efforts in Nepal

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04/30/2015

... 60 years. "We are deeply concerned for the well-being of millions of Nepalis whose lives have been so profoundly affected by this disaster," said Darren Walker, president of...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $400,000 in Emergency Response Funding for 10 Baltimore Nonprofits

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05/14/2015

... unrest and violence in Baltimore City. “Based on all of the information that we have obtained, we believe this is ... events,” said Rachel Garbow Monroe, Weinberg Foundation President and CEO. “While we are...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment ... or PRI, will be "humongous," predicts Plinio Ayala, president of Per Scholas, a work-force...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Ford Foundation Board Making Rare Detroit Visit

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06/15/2015

... bargain" reunion during the three-day visit, a gathering of top leaders in national and local philanthropy who ... Detroit's pensions funds and avert a bankruptcy fire sale of city-owned art. Ford...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and Educational Development Opportunities

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06/30/2015

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and ... workforce development and mentoring at their point of need, according to bank officials. “The social and ... to our families,” said Raul A. Anaya, Los...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... over the next two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative, which ... Alma DeMetropolis, managing director and New Jersey market president for JPMorgan...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... Treatments Every organism -- from a seedling to a president -- must protect its DNA at all costs, but precisely ... between damage to its own DNA and the foreign DNA of an invading virus has remained a mystery...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects ... our community," Bill Tommins, Southern Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to the Commonwealth Fund ... "Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... Colonialism Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co- president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to ... solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting as...

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Gender Justice

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Johnson & Johnson to Provide Scholarships for Rutgers Students in Health-related Fields

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11/12/2015

... for Rutgers Students in Health-related Fields As Rutgers launches a yearlong celebration of its 250th birthday, the university has received its first ... scholarships in health-care related fields. Rutgers...

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

Release Date:

12/10/2015

... for Wall Street,” said Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation President Gary Hattem. “It’s really a historic moment.” ...

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Artist Catherine Opie Elected to Warhol Foundation Board

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12/15/2015

... for the Visual Arts today announced the election of artist Catherine Opie to the Warhol Foundation Board of Directors. Joel Wachs, President of the Warhol Foundation, said...

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NYTimes Examines Hartford Foundation Work on Geriatrics

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01/29/2016

... She was submitting to the tender scrutiny of Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom, who scooted her stool so close ... that she was knee to knee with her patient. . . “One of the greatest stories of the...

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