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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... United States Financier George Soros has become one of the largest supporters of drug reforms ranging from medical marijuana use to the easing of sentencing for drug charges. His ...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The MasterCard Foundation has partnered with the United Nations Capital ... to increase access to microfinance and other forms of investment capital for small...

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new, seven- foundation partnership created to support nonprofits working ... and be more effective today announced its first round...

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Coalition to Support Grieving Students Launches GrievingStudents.org

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01/13/2015

... Grieving Students, convened in 2013 by the New York Life Foundation , is a collaboration among the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and ten of the leading professional organizations in the K-12...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America For all the frantic, often ... the American Dream to the proverbial dustbin? Many of us might be too preoccupied with incidental, even trivial ... and...

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OSF Grants $8 Million to Immigrant Advocacy Programs

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06/09/2015

... will win at the court proceedings. “There is a sense of being undeterred, that we are going to continue ... volunteers -- a move that has garnered $8 million from a foundation led by billionaire George Soros...

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

The Arcus Foundation , a global foundation promoting respect for ... that LGBT Americans will one day be able to enjoy all of the possibilities that are truly equal to those of...

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... electricity systems and get on the right side of the politics of development -- philanthropy just hasn't realized it yet. ... But outside the admirable efforts of the Rockefeller...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

... Website Is it news, or is it advocacy? In the case of the Seventy Four, a new news site focused on education, ... Brown raised the funds for the Seventy Four from some of the biggest and wealthiest advocates...

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Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy

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09/16/2015

... Philanthropy A century has past since the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation , and the spirit of family philanthropy still results in the creation of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Collaborates to Launch Data Portal to Share and Expand Philanthropic Resources

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09/17/2015

... Resources Bloomberg Philanthropies, King Baudouin Foundation , and Foundation Center have announced the launch of Equal Footing, a data portal of philanthropic resources that...

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The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography

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09/29/2015

... in Ballet Leadership and Choreography In 1963, the Ford Foundation used the power of its grants to help create eight ballet companies across the U.S. Most of these companies were founded and...

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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... that promote and encourage charitable giving. The is part of the Council on Foundations' work to revive the ... Senate. The briefing will also emphasize the importance of taking action on charitable...

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

... Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize In January, our foundation put out a call to anyone in America with a ... watching applications trickle in. Would we catch the eye of wildly inventive social innovators? As a...

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Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth

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01/08/2016

... Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth Aging out of foster care can be a difficult process. With little ... the case for former foster youth. With average income of only $470 a month, and statistically...

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Rockefeller Partnership to Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery

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01/25/2016

... Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery The Rockefeller Foundation , Veolia, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions have ... initiative designed to accelerate the economic recovery of cities in the aftermath...

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

... to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a supplemental gift of £3.7 million ($5.4 million) gift to the Oxford Pershing ... Square Graduate Scholars Program at the...

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Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art

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02/16/2016

... New Center to Study Indigenous Art The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which will be...

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... M.D., associate director for Basic Research and leader of the Eye Cancer Site Disease Group at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and...

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