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Staying the Course: Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/13/2015

... career, the credit for which he is more than happy to share with colleagues, collaborators, grantees, and ... family and RBF board. Staying the Course explores how RBF's grantmaking programs tried, "...

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the ... deliver better data, analyses and expert insights designed to address global economic challenges...

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Community Development

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Professions initiative include $398,000 over three years to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd ... and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in support of efforts to integrate the liberal arts into...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... promise for advancing the frontiers of knowledge about how biological systems function in health and disease. The selected Scholars will receive grants of up to $110,000 per year for a maximum of five years...

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Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award

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07/31/2015

... My Librarian Award encourages library users in the U.S. to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, ... Times Company, the program seeks nominations that describe how a librarian is improving the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support

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10/19/2015

A new report, “State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care ... on evidence from the literature and four case studies to outline tools that state governments can use to...

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits Remember how complicated it was to understand your health care benefits when you got your first real job? Now imagine trying to figure it out if...

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The New York Community Trust

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower costs for “high-need, ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... more than $375 million in public and private financing to be channeled into projects to redesign American high schools. That was the big news ... entrepreneurs, philanthropists and students about how...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in SE Asia

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11/23/2015

... and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in Southeast Asia When it comes to writing about the long-contentious issue of hydropower ... viability of hydropower dams, but on...

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New Disclosures on Mozilla Foundation and its Supporters (Ford, Helmsley)

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12/03/2015

... operating system with the world. If you’re wondering how Mozilla spends its money, the answers — including a few ... stock, venture investors or a bunch of reporters trying to figure out if it’s worth $1...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... in Brooklyn, she had a GED, a 5-year-old son, and a desire to better her health and her community. She has learned how to grow produce, cook it in the healthiest manner, and along ...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Scholarship on America’s Immigration History, including Interactive Graphics

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12/17/2015

... but here are some snippets from one map that shows just how much of an ever-changing melting pot America is. . . ...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... the best care. The late Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year. But scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling ... having trouble turning a profit without deep annual cuts, how about becoming a nonprofit?” That was the question ... for a...

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Communications/Media

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In New York, More Than a Thousand in Record-Breaking Kids Challah Bake (UJA-Federation of NY)

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01/15/2016

... record in Hong Kong held by 426 students, who learned how to knead and bake dough, in 2013. The Guinness World ... of New York. Private donors also contributed to the costs associated with...

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Religion

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Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More

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01/25/2016

... Blasio is dedicating $159 million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently ... well below what they should be receiving, according to his self-avowed "boring...

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Revson Fellowship Produces Research on Female Face of Genocide

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03/16/2016

... Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her mission to take a hard look at the Holocaust and examine how people came to be so brutal to others. After receiving a B.A...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... State Won’t Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have ... of inequality and so many economic isues, cities have to innovate solutions, because no...

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