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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high The USA has the most measles cases in 20 years and the most since homegrown outbreaks were ... and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash Dr. Richard Rockefeller, son of ... an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, was family ... United States...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes Ecology, or SCOPE, a program of the Simons Foundation’s Division of Life Sciences that aims to advance basic research in life sciences. SCOPE hopes to further understand...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and ... world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from...

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

... Botanical Garden 039 ;s Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, holds its first public ... on Friday-- a symposium...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in...

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

... at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level. Through Brooklyn Insights, the foundation has ... change, and strategies for collective action. As noted on a special Brooklyn Insights...

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New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds

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07/06/2014

... Bargain" Funds The Ford Foundation will be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit 039 ;s future, which will administer the $366 million in private money pledged as part of...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... reproductive rights will be high on her agenda, especially in the wake of two Supreme Court rulings last month. In ... was wrong to require buffer zones to keep protesters at a distance...

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Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

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07/17/2014

... Help Immigrant Students Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’s County, Md., as part of Carnegie ... Public Schools along with CASA of Maryland--recipients of a $3 million...

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

... the typical American household has declined by more than a third over the past 10 years, according to a study underwritten by the Russell Sage Foundation. The ... net worth for the typical household declined...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

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09/01/2014

... Backers of Education Post News Site Education Post, a nonprofit group that plans to launch Tuesday, with the aims to encourage a more “respectful” and fact-based national discussion ... which is backed with...

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Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?

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09/09/2014

Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States? The growing debate over economic ... it turns out, is suggestive, but not definitive. From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans...

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

... sector really needs is to grow the overall funding pie from its current 2 percent of GDP to 3 percent of GDP. In order to do that, nonprofits will need to invest more in ... organizations and...

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Carnegie and MasterCard Foundation Headline African Higher Education Summit

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10/06/2014

... Summit The African Higher Education Summit to be held in March 2015 in Senegal will provide an energising space for ... in the sector and talk about the future. “This is a...

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Primary Care Doctors on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out

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10/20/2014

... demanding workload and punishing schedule, have it rough. A study from the Annals of Internal medicine — entitled “Burnout ...

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RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund

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10/29/2014

RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund Working in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the fund is responding to the immediate needs resulting from the outbreak, as well as working to strengthen the ... Wright established the...

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MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa

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11/07/2014

... Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa The programme will accelerate the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 039 ;s (AGRA) effort to improve...

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Foundation to Move Funds to Detroit Pensions

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11/12/2014

... Funds to Detroit Pensions Exactly how will millions in private dollars in the "grand bargain" make its way into ... That 039 ;s the charge of the Foundation For Detroit...

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World Ploughshares opposes America’s ... organizes and innovates projects to realize a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons.” The...

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