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Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as the Head of the Office of International Affairs

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09/16/2014

... who are incorporating the gender lens in their work. She is a member of the World Bank’s Advisory Council on Gender ... in the book “Women in the Global Economy: Leading Social Change .” Abeywardena previously...

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Research Yields Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola

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09/19/2014

... population-scale field assessments that can potentially change the way Ebola virus is studied and improve our understanding of the virus' .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... the cracks, a range of institutions have set out to change the situation. Dozens of school districts, across 15 ... on making college more accessible, says his top priority is college access. On Tuesday, a...

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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

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11/11/2014

... has five times as many people as the United States and is the second largest economy in the world, which is why China's rise is right up there with climate change as...

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Taking the Time to Learn in Transition: How the Ford Foundation Board Revamped the Traditional CEO Search

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11/13/2014

... as an opportunity for peers to share what matters and what is hard when it comes to leading productive change in philanthropy. This topic was quite fresh for Kofi ...

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Ten Librarians Honored by Carnegie for Outstanding Public Service

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12/03/2014

... and the profession to recognize invaluable community change agents – our nation's librarians." Library .....

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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

... correlated with student performance than intelligence is . And, he notes, ratings of students’ personalities by ... The strength of the personality-performance link is good news, he writes, because “personality...

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Millions Could Lose Coverage in Latest ACA Challenge

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04/03/2015

There could be 9.6 million fewer people with coverage by 2016.

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

... emissions, which scientists have found are causing climate change . "Dirty, outdated, deadly coal is a thing of the past," Sierra Club Executive Director .....

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

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04/24/2015

Marie Wilson discusses how the program allowed men to be seen of as a public parental figure.

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New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations

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05/12/2015

The Pinkerton Foundation, Heckscher Foundation for Children and Carnegie Corporation have supported the Fund in the past.

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Casey Family Programs Announces Winner of the 2015 Casey Excellence for Children Award

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05/21/2015

... The Center represents the kind of innovation that can change the national conversation about how we collectively ...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

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06/11/2015

... resistance. This critical next phase of cancer research is becoming a reality, thanks to the Gerstner Family ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

The foundation has provided a grant to help expand the Y's Diabetes Prevention Program.

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Ford's Walker Featured in NonProfit Times 'Power & Influence Top 50'

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08/04/2015

... & Influence Top 50' “Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good ... on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act. It was change about which the...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty Art of Change Fellow and former South African Constitutional Court ... Albie Sachs asked an audience at the Ford Foundation: “ Is it right to fund art when there...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... has left them at a permanent disadvantage and the time for change is now." Mario Cuomo was a fighter for workers’ rights .....

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5 Questions for. . .Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation

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10/15/2015

... its efforts about urban resilience in an age of climate change . . . 5 Questions for. . .Judith Rodin, President, ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Prevails in Property Demolition

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10/19/2015

The Hillsborough Township's (NJ) Historic Preservation Commission has approved the Duke Foundation's application to demolish the former home of heiress Doris Duke.

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Several PNY Members’ Giving Contrasted with Silicon Valley’s ‘New Philanthropy’

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11/02/2015

... Philanthropy’ The enduring credo of Silicon Valley is that innovation, not money, is its guiding purpose and that world-changing technology is its true measure of worth. Wealth is...

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