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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

... Barack Obama has tried his hardest to keep his distance from the Syrian war. Even as he has made the case that the ... wave after wave of chaos into the wider world — spawning a new generation of terrorists...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

... Health Last week the World Health Organization announced a new partner in its effort to combat noncommunicable diseases such as ... help ministries of health understand what people are dying from...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard ... aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities across...

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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

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09/09/2016

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations A new UC San Francisco study challenges the most influential .....

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... RNA is actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor ... the level of some of the most over-expressed of these RNAs from...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... first capital of the Confederacy is set to become home to a privately funded museum and monument that could make some ... Justice Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

... into their overall efforts. To try to find out why, a couple of Yale University researchers conducted a study ... Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing...

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Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues

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10/03/2016

Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues Lack of diverse representation on ... greatest challenges despite increased rhetoric from several stars in recent months...

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Impact of ACA on New York's Insurance Markets

Release Date:

10/18/2016

... New York 039 ;s Insurance Markets October 18, 2016—Enrollment in individual health insurance coverage increased sharply in ... by more than $1 billion compared to 2013, according to ...

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Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

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11/01/2016

... as he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be ... a cost of $1,365 to $2,275 a year,...

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New York Life Donates $500K Challenge Grant Toward Creation of Central Park's First Statues of Real Women

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11/28/2016

... Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund Inc., announced today that a $500,000 Challenge Grant had been awarded to The Statue ... York Life to help create the first statue of real women in the 163-year history of New York...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

... the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels ... House as its senior director of energy and climate change in early 2016. OPIC, the U...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... and avoid costly hospital visits, an issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the brief, How High-Need Patients Experience Health Care in...

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Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

Release Date:

12/12/2016

Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America U.S. Syria policy had been due for a major rethink, even before Donald Trump was elected ... effecting a...

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13 Apr 2017

Spending Up: A Discussion on Perpetuity - Webinar

Thursday, April 13, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* In the 2015 Trends Study, NCFP found that nearly ... philanthropic lifespans. In this webinar, we’ll host a roundtable discussion on...

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10 Aug 2017

Good Governance: How to Use Board Committees Effectively - Webinar

Thursday, August 10, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... There is more than one approach to effective governance in family philanthropy, and the use of committees is one of ... most important tools you can use. This webinar will take a deep dive into all the...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn Forty people sit in a circle. Most are residents of Crown Heights, a dynamic, ... they saw preventing everyone...

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

Release Date:

01/12/2017

... San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely ... than thirty-five million freely licensed media files in...

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The Wallace Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries

Release Date:

01/17/2017

... Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries On a freezing night in December, a bundled-up young crowd filed ... the vivid production. In...

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... participants. Four of the most highly regarded researchers in the country will present innovative ideas related to poverty fighting. Then, the invitees - a cross-disciplinary group of leaders from...

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