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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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Technology

Workforce Development

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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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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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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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Housing and Homelessness

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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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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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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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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Education

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

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12/10/2015

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

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LGBTQ

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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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Arts

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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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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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New York Women's Foundation Celebrates Leaders in Philanthropy

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04/18/2016

... on May 5 to celebrate the leadership and philanthropy of Tory Burch, CEO & Designer of Tory Burch LLC and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation ... and Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD, human...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit organization ... country specializing in nine fields. Alberto Ibargüen, President & CEO of...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Arts

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Ford Foundation's $190M Revamp Receives Landmarks Approval

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04/21/2016

... Foundation can now move forward with the planned revamp of its iconic Midtown building, after the city's Landmarks ... changes to make the building feel "less hierarchical," as the ...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

... HIV risk, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study. Since 2004, the U.S. President ’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has supported local initiatives...

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Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’s Water Crisis

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05/11/2016

... today they plan to spend $125 million to help residents of Flint, Mich., recover from the harm they have suffered ... that it was important to give the people in Flint a sense of hope," said Ridgway White...

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Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy

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05/12/2016

... Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead ... of impact investing is providing a reason to look inward as much...

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