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The Sky Really is Falling…Now What? A New Working Group for Funders

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04/03/2012

By Liz Sak, Executive Director, Cricket Island Foundation When the financial crisis hit, foundations ... According to recently released data from The Chronicle of Philanthropy , spending at the largest foundations...

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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...

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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 ... Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... big tobacco companies desperate to offset falling sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere. The fund, to ... by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , will help low and...

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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...

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OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug

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03/25/2015

OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug The drug naloxone can be ... lasting. Professional aftercare is usually needed. In some countries, naloxone costs less than $1 per...

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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 ... 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part of a $25...

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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...

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

Ford Backs Initiative to 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...

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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 resilience in communities across the country through the launch of Resilience...

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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 ... “...

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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 problem-solving app ideas to life – is back! In its fourth year, the App Challenge calls students to ... create concepts for mobile apps that could solve problems in their schools and communities...

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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 services to the millions of low-income people in America and around the...

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Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit

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12/08/2015

Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently distributed nearly $1 million in...

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New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work

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12/10/2015

... from Wallace Work Eight new standards for supervisors of school principals, covering topics such as instructional ... as they help those principals improve their effectiveness in an evolving role. The...

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In Memoriam: J.M. Kaplan Fund Trustee Richard D. Kaplan

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01/25/2016

In Memoriam: J.M. Kaplan Fund Trustee Richard D. Kaplan Richard D. Kaplan of New York and Palm Beach died on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, ... trustee of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a private New York-based...

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Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College

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03/22/2016

... they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed ... the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles, a decade ago, and it...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon

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03/24/2016

... Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon In a letter posted on its website, the Rockefeller Family ... “as quickly as possible,” eliminating its holdings in ExxonMobil Corp., which it called “morally...

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Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

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03/30/2016

... biannual Nuclear Security Summit, at which representatives of participating countries present "gift baskets" of actions they will take or money they will commit to ... basket to highlight the role...

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