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Atlantic's Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International Philanthropy

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09/21/2015

... more than $7 billion to bring about lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people around the world. Established as a limited-life foundation , Atlantic will complete its grantmaking...

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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

... a charitable fund to help poor and elderly married couples in the city continue living together, the fund’s officers ... lovebirds? Alas, it was impossible to ask. Mr. Day died in 1944. Instead, the board of...

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UU Veatch's Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP's Board of Directors

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09/25/2015

... for Responsive Philanthropy Board of Directors In her role at Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Molly Schultz Hafid is responsible for managing the organization’s program and ... She...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... of Deadly Brain Cancer Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly cancer. A person diagnosed with this ... The late Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year. But scientists at...

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit is set to jump 24 percent, to $544 billion, in this fiscal year. That's up from last year's $439 billion ... Michael Peterson, CEO of the anti-...

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

... City-based The Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health care ... apps, a potentially promising tool for engaging patients in...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, ... beverages in January 2014. That tax, supporters claim, is working. A...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center

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03/09/2016

... The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . The center would help improve care for ... led by Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has been accomplishing in Camden. “Across the country, innovators are...

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Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development

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03/15/2016

... Museum and on the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential Campaign in Washington State. As Director of Development at the ... between philanthropic partners and city agencies in need of programmatic funding. Her work...

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

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch...

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping In Norfolk, Virginia, an East Coast city that's home to the ... how much the city, its region and the nation would suffer in damages to national assets...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast OSLO is supported by a Theatre Commissioning and Production Initiative grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . A darkly comic epic, Oslo tells the...

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at ... by the international community signifies a noteworthy step in its efforts to mount a unified stance against global ... for being...

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... for City Limits' extensive coverage of housing issues in 2015, a year that saw crucial decisions by NYCHA, developments in homelessness, the roll-out of the mayor's affordable ... by the New York...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... workers to strengthen the delivery of health care services in the United States. NYCT will award the two social work ... bring two fellows to Washington, D.C. to directly engage in health care policy work on...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services The national effort spearheaded by ... the Effectiveness of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System” and launched by the...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped create, took its first direct stake in a...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... of contemporary textile art. This new curatorial position is supported by a $500,000 five-and-a-half year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the museum’s new contemporary art ...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free ... in 2015, the bulk of them to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , has...

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