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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

... schools for at least five years, were chosen by a panel of scientists, mathematicians and educators. The Fund for the City of New York and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave the winners an...

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All Investing is Impact Investing

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01/12/2015

... funds and elsewhere. Donors have transferred ownership of these funds to separate entities and received their tax deductions. Yet only a small percentage of those funds is expended on charitable donations for...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on ... is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, free of charge, to select city governments...

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation . In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to ... provide up to three years of...

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OSF and Ford Praised by de Blasio for Internet Accessibility Work

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02/12/2015

... Accessibility Wor k Mayor Bill de Blasio spurred foundation leaders Wednesday to invest in projects and ... technology tools that protect and expand the accessibility of the Internet. "We know that you...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from ... to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the grant will support...

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Effective Journalism Is Now Part of Our College Completion Mission

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03/17/2015

by Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation For many years, The Edwin Gould Foundation has awarded grants to programs that promote ... organizations that in turn helped individuals and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , will help low and middle-income countries facing ... international trade agreements to ensure distribution of their products......

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North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform

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03/24/2015

... on the left. The North Star Fund, a liberal activist foundation with ties to de Blasio, has launched a campaign to push for changes in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’s top donors for its efforts...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... Sohn Cancer Research Alliance has announced the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young ... Investigators in Cancer Research...

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How The Atlantic Philanthropies Changed Lives Through Building

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05/18/2015

... to build something that can dramatically alter the lives of people, communities, even nations. Conversely, imagine an ... you and asking what you could build to change many lives, of the people in your...

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

... Fight AIDS in the Deep South With backing from the Ford Foundation , AIDS United awarded $1 million in grants to ... to an AIDS United press release. The grants are part of the AIDS United Southern REACH (...

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Ford and RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data

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07/01/2015

... RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data The heads of the Bullitt, Ford, William and Flora Hewlett, Kresge and ... have. GuideStar is joined by the D5 Coalition, a group of 26 nonprofits and donor...

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Rockefeller Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program

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07/13/2015

... New Resilience AmeriCorps Program The Rockefeller Foundation announced their latest commitment to building ... in communities across the country through the launch of Resilience AmeriCorps. The pilot program...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Mixed Views of PCPs Towards New Payment Models

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08/14/2015

Commonwealth Fund Finds Mixed Views of PCPs Towards New Payment Models On August 5, The ... Fund, the New York-based not-for-profit “private foundation that aims to promote a high performing healthcare ... issue...

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Fourth Annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge Seeks Problem Solving Ideas From Students Nationwide

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08/17/2015

... their schools and communities. Created by the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the Technology Student ... futures for themselves that they may never have imagined, as business owners, app inventors and...

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Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code

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09/01/2015

... last week on NJIT's campus that was the culmination of the Girls Who Code summer camp. “You can change the ... chief social corporate responsibility officer and Verizon Foundation president Rose Kirk and...

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Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds

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11/12/2015

Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds Leonard Glickman is the chief executive officer of FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, which manages more than ... had...

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Gates and JPMorgan Back White House Outreach to 'Unbanked'

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12/03/2015

... to 'Unbanked' The Obama administration announced a set of public-private programs Tuesday to expand financial ... York Times. Corporate and philanthropic partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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