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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum ... to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to...

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An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

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02/22/2016

An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation) ... It was not an obvious pairing. “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining,” paints a grim picture of the food ... are not great...

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Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans

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03/23/2016

... Plans Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. Consider a young construction ... drops slightly, and now his family no longer qualifies for financial assistance through marketplace...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $ 5 million to launch Providence' s high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city...

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Four Projects Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC

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04/01/2016

... Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC While finding affordable ... officer for the arts at the trust, which has spent nearly $...

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

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05/31/2016

U. S . Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career ... of 242 high net worth business owners with at least $3 million in investable assets, part of the 2016 U. S . Trust ... both of...

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NYS Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration

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06/30/2016

... Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration The Supreme Court’ s deadlocked decision last week on United States v. ... Texas leaves millions of immigrants at...

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark ... “We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1. 2 million...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

Warren Buffet Pledges$ 2 .9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others The billionaire ... BRKA ), according to an official filing Thursday. He' s now made a huge donation 11...

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

... in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year For most kids, the end of summer means back- to -school ... for new textbooks and class schedules. But for...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on ... senior evaluation or program staff at foundations in the U. S . and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or members of the Evaluation Roundtable, a ...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... that in five urban districts participating in Wallace’ s $50 million National Summer Learning Project, third-grade ... students who attended a five- to six-week summer program for...

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NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation

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11/03/2016

NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’ s Own Foundation Mention the name Paul Newman and many movie ... Own food brand has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. “We used to get...

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump' s Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed The 2016 ... a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

... Gathering. This program celebrates the Weinberg Foundation' s mission, partnerships, and accomplishments of the past year. "The Weinberg Foundation will award up to $ 2 ...

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

... is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file. The JustLeadershipUSA founder raised his powerful voice to show the injustice of the system as well as...

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Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030

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02/07/2017

... in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the first YieldWise partner planning session. They were ... food loss worldwide by 2030, a key objective of the U.N.’ s Sustainable Development Goals...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U. S . to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive The ... valuable perspectives on the world."...

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected ... at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been digging for fossils in a paleontologically...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It For decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the city. In the city' s new resilience district, with projects that will...

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