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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

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08/05/2015

... to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve the lives of residents. The mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Jackson, ... City, Missouri; Louisville,...

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

... This week, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice described his ... was arrested on drug charges and served a prison sentence of more than three years. As he...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

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08/21/2015

... five American children and adolescents -- or 17.1 million of the 74.5 million children under the age of 18, according to the U.S. census -- are affected by ... treatment. The Healthy Brain Network (HBN) is a...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new report found their well-being declines in the areas of health, crime and family patterns. Co-sponsored by the ... Services, the Sept. 21 report from...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... Report on Creating Effective School Principals A new report commissioned by the Wallace Foundation has ... schools. According to the report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state policy could...

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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

... Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse A new global report shows that money doesn't buy everything ... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... the same question and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina...

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Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

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10/26/2015

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA Want to know more about the Ford Foundation’s new focus on inequality? Have questions about how we’re ... answer questions in a...

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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library

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10/26/2015

Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest ... causes and action, and set entire geographic regions on new...

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How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation

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11/23/2015

... The world cheered as Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola earlier this month. An army of courageous physicians, nurses, technicians, and lay care ... organizations, families, and individuals was still...

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

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12/10/2015

... Empowerment Forum Transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs ...

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

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01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive ... to help us deliver maximum impact.” Its support of iFoster, for example, a web platform that helps foster ... organized, shows how the...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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NBC News Profiles Asian Women Giving Circle at Ms. Foundation

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01/29/2016

... director for a Korean-American non-profit serving victims of domestic violence, she discovered how hard it was to raise ... for her cause. Korean-American immigrants, Lee found, were new to the idea of...

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Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings

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02/11/2016

... Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings A new report details how an incubator created by the Filene ...

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

... to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness The majority of the alcohol industry’s actions around the world to ... lack evidence of effectiveness or haven’t...

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College Most students attend ... never completing their degree at all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in...

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The Century Foundation

Specialty Food Foundation Addresses Hunger With Social Entrepreneurship

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03/02/2016

... Entrepreneurship Specialty Food Foundation, a community of social entrepreneurs working to break the hunger cycle, is starting the search for the third annual class of grant recipients. Eligible organizations...

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American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home

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04/15/2016

... Dupont, San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor of Architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is part of a top-tier team of ... Dupont and his...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry Federal prisons release nearly 50,000 ... some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New Opportunity was announced by an organization...

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