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Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations

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09/09/2016

... financing paid internships at those organizations. The $1 million initiative, half financed by the city and the other ... of a survey published this year that found the diversity in the...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful ... at foundations in the U.S. and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or members of the Evaluation Roundtable, a ...

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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

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors ... With millions more people insured, the assumption is that...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth (109 pages, PDF), found that in five urban districts participating in Wallace’s $50 million National Summer Learning Project, third-grade...

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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 ... ranks as the most generous in terms of lifetime giving. To come up with...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap Recent advances in data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies ... in recent years, and they are spending an average of $7 million annually...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Community Development

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NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation

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11/03/2016

... charismatic actor with the piercing blue eyes who starred in films like “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Sting” and ... hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. “We used to get stopped on the street, and somebody...

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Food Systems

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

Martin is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file. The ... America’s best and brightest while I was in prison and that...

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PhilTalks

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Justice Reform

Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and you can transport it elsewhere. If everyone did that , there would be a lot of...

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Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030

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02/07/2017

... Help Halve Food Loss by 2030 Local and global stakeholders in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the ... food produced is lost to spoilage or is just thrown away. That ’s...

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Food Systems

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive The American ... in business and government, teachers, and scientists...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival The Geraldine R. ... a few of its affiliated poets to the film’s showing in Princeton. “It seemed like a natural...

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NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA

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05/08/2017

... have their eyes on Albany, which will be under pressure to pick up some of the costs now covered by Washington. The ... liberal state offers some of the top Medicaid benefits in the country. . . “Today’s vote...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

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05/12/2017

... of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ ... More than one-fourth of all Medicare beneficiaries—15...

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

... media fanfare, something fascinating occurred, a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding backward, we’re lurching forward, too. The ...

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NYS Health Foundation Co-Authors Column on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services

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06/01/2017

... on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services With over 3 million foreign-born residents, immigrants are vital to the ... The critical contributions of immigrants are felt in every corner of...

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Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years

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06/13/2017

Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years ... of American workers in their 50s and 60s want, or need, to keep working past the traditional retirement age of...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’s clear the Trump era will be cruel to women. The President and Congress have proposed draconian ... education, and disability programs,...

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Gender Justice

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Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... to the group of charities. Buffett’s gift included 18.63 million Class B shares of his company’s stock, which ... on Monday. Since taking control of Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, Buffett has...

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