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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

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03/24/2017

... — are increasingly researched and understood. Now, a new pilot project initiated by the World Wildlife Fund ... hopes to make food waste in the hotel industry a thing of the past. Food production has the...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

... has not only adopted the red knot bird as a poetic symbol of the modern plight of migrants and refugees; it is sending a few of its ... the foundation, whose major programs include caring for...

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK ... (SPARK) is an online scientific study and community of individuals with autism and their families. Launched just ... the research...

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Century Foundation Analysis Finds Millions Could Lose Health Benefits If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA

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04/10/2017

... If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA In the wake of House Republicans’ failed attempt to repeal and ... consumer protections that had been established in Title I of the ACA. Given this new...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awards $100,000 to Harn Museum of Art

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04/20/2017

... for the Visual Arts awards $100,000 to Harn Museum of Art The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts recently awarded $100,000 to the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in...

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

... Foundation is thrilled to announce the appointment of Lisa Green Hall to the Board’s Investment Committee as ... Anthos Asset Management in 2013, where she launched a new portfolio dedicated to impact...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding

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04/26/2017

... & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding Ocean conservation philanthropy ... and varied as, well, the ocean. This is an area of philanthropy that consistently...

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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems

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04/27/2017

... in some cases, better than private coverage, according to new a Commonwealth Fund report. Medicaid is currently the ... covering more than 70 million people, about 12 million of whom enrolled when 31 states...

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs A new study, billed as the first of its kind, by the Ford Foundation and the Kapor Center for ... theoretically cush tech jobs. What are the motivations ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... to say they've saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ... security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income during retirement. The...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?

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05/31/2017

... Trump administration has made work requirements a hallmark of its Medicaid policy proposals, including the idea in the just-released 2018 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget proposal, and...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

... a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism. In a speech in Brussels, the Hungarian-American billionaire accused Orban of building a “mafia state” in Hungary. In doing so, he .....

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’ In previous papers, University of Pennsylvania physicists investigated the “coffee ring effect,” the ring-shaped stain of particles left after drops of coffee evaporate...

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... Rita Allen Foundation Does It Few foundations provide most of their annual giving to individuals. The bias of most funders in favor of organizational grantees reflects ... organizations, are...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, myself included, tend to be of two minds: We like the idea that the wealthy are ... social good and we're excited by the...

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli The Century Foundation is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Janice Nittoli this morning. Janice served ... and more dynamic...

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper Flavor Paper (flavorpaper.com) also produces ... for the Visual Arts, which gives it access to much of Warhol’s work. Flavor Paper borrows...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital suggests. The researchers say pediatricians may want to counsel parents of...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population – are covered by at least one ... quadrupled since 2007 when only 1 billion people, and 15% of the world’s population, were...

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