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ASPCA Honored as Finalist for North American Employee Engagement Awards

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05/08/2015

... across North America have been shortlisted for awards to recognize their commitment to improving employee engagement. Winners and highly ...

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Verizon Foundation Launches Diabetes Study

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05/29/2015

... and Baptist Health have announced a pilot program to study whether mobile technology can improve the health of ... patients. The foundation is putting up $427,700 to help fund the year-long program...

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Lavelle Fund for the Blind Backs Program to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired College Students

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08/17/2015

Lavelle Fund for the Blind Backs Program to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired College Students ... attending college who are blind and visually impaired. In partnership with the Lavelle Fund for the Blind,...

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Daphne Foundation President Receives Top Honors from the International Women's Media Foundation

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09/30/2015

... Media Foundation will present its annual Leadership Honor to filmmaker Abigail Disney. The organization announced Wednesday that Disney will be recognized at the Courage in Journalism Awards...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Jane Mendillo and L. Rafael Reif to its Board of Trustees

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04/11/2016

... Foundation Appoints Jane Mendillo and L. Rafael Reif to its Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon ... and President Reif will offer wise leadership, grounded in deep and broad experience, as well as steadfast...

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Rauch Foundation Seeks Publisher for Long Island Index

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04/19/2016

... Long Island Index The Rauch Foundation announced Monday that it is seeking proposals from organizations to permanently take over publication of the Long Island Index, which for 13 years has provided in...

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Commonwealth Fund Executives Write About Stressed, But Fixable ACA Marketplaces

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09/07/2016

... Stressed, But Fixable ACA Marketplaces Negative headlines in the past few weeks seem to suggest deep trouble for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ... increases for 2017—and Aetna is the third major insurer...

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Sixteen Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative

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10/24/2016

... Philanthropies has surpassed the halfway mark in its goal to include 100 mid-sized cities in an initiative to help city halls embrace data-driven ...

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Unbound Philanthropy Survey Finds DACA Fee Increases Could Put Relief Out of Reach for Immigrant Youth

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10/27/2016

... and Immigration Services agency announced changes to the fees for many immigration services, including the ... and the I-131 form required for DACA recipients who wish to travel abroad which increased by $215...

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Patrick Gaspard Appointed VP of the Open Society Foundations

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12/05/2016

... Foundations The Open Society Foundations announced today that Patrick H. Gaspard, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa and former senior advisor to President Obama, ... will oversee the Open...

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Bloomberg Launches Smart City Certification

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04/11/2017

... What Works Cities program announced an initiative that will direct cities on how to use data to improve their smart infrastructure. The ... second annual What Works Cities summit, March 27-29...

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Novo Foundation Receives Some of the Billions and Billions That Warren Buffett Is Giving Away

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07/17/2017

Novo Foundation Receives Some of the Billions and Billions That Warren Buffett Is Giving Away In 2006, Warren Buffett famously pledged to give away most of his Berkshire Hathaway stock, saying ...

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De Blasio Names Members Of Commission That Will Review Statues, Plaques Across NYC

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09/11/2017

De Blasio Names Members Of Commission That Will Review Statues, Plaques Across NYC We now know who ... help decide the fate of the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle. Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed...

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KIPP NYC Charter School Network Is Investigating Claims of Past Sex Abuse

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09/28/2017

... York City charter school network announced on Wednesday that it was opening an investigation into allegations of ... set by many private schools, including St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and Choate...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles. The repository, launched as an ‘electronic bulletin board’ in August 1991, just before the dawn of the World Wide Web, .....

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Median Pay For CEOs In Health Care Companies Higher Than Any Other Industry

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05/27/2015

Commonwealth Fund research cited in analysis of America's rising healthcare costs... In 2014, ... UnitedHealth Group, reportedly took home more than $66 million in salary,...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

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09/11/2015

... School of Medicine have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of ... of irreversible blindness. The findings, published in the September 10...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... president’s suite will be among the amenities sacrificed in a $190 million renovation of the Ford Foundation Building, 320 East 43rd Street in Manhattan, that is expected...

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UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

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02/09/2016

... $40M From Bankrupt FEGS The biggest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity ... by UJA-Federation of New York and by a government agency that insures private retirement...

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