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Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive

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08/24/2017

... here. It’s what happens when people believe that selling is a disreputable practice that must be tolerated only as a last resort. If you believe selling is a dark art, full of shady practices, then that’s what...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. Forests as Temperatures Rise

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08/29/2017

... study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change . . . Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. ...

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Canada Wants a New NAFTA to Include Gender and Indigenous Rights

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08/31/2017

... both gender and indigenous rights, and addressing climate change . Those “progressive elements,” the foreign affairs ...

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Gender Justice

Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal

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09/07/2017

... the biggest hurricane ever measured in the mid-Atlantic is tearing through the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma, a category-five storm, is destroying homes and threatening lives in the Leeward ... events become more...

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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

... Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What's needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and government ... has become development’s new avatar, and the rhetoric is replete...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... clock on this crucial technology. Antibiotic resistance is urgent enough for the U.N. to have called a General ... in children. The medicine humans directly ingest, however, is only part of the problem. As...

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Food Systems

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... will grow ever wider in the years to come, absent policy change . The two institutes’ joint report bears the ominous ... “The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Gap is Hollowing Out America’s Middle...

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Economic Security

Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... Addictive Painkillers At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are ...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... The adage says it’s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of ... increase feelings of happiness, even if...

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

... five boroughs. This can lead to brilliant innovations that change the city as we know it—the subway may be a broken ... a smidge easier. (Though the viability of some of those is questionable, at best.) So...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... look beyond the traditional foundation structure. The LLC is a much better vehicle for the kind of multi-faceted ... the start, CZI has sought to pull several major levers of change : It makes grants to 501(c)3...

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The World's Soaring CO2 Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers

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09/22/2017

... twist to the history and possible dark future of climate change . If you want an unusual but punchy telling of the ...

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More Healthful Kids Meals? Panera CEO Dishes Out A Challenge

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09/27/2017

Chicken nuggets. French fries. Pizza. Repeat. This repertoire of kids menu items may seem familiar to many families, but one fast-casual chain aims to put a lot more options in front of its young customers.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Giving Could Plunge $13 Billion Under Tax Plan, Nonprofit Leader Says

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09/28/2017

... fewer taxpayers would itemize their tax returns. That change could reduce the value of the charitable deduction as ...

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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... to Social Security under the Trump administration. This is so despite President Donald Trump's promise on the ... doesn't mean all these people think the current situation is just fine. More than...

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Economic Security

Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

... Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving Tax reform is once again the focus of many discussions, debates and ... enacted in in 1986, most agree that an updated tax code is needed — but not at the expense of...

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... City billionaires are battling over coal. And Kentucky is caught in the middle.” While the fate of the coal industry is bigger than Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump, that’s ... threat to public health and a...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

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12/15/2017

... to build empathy in order to affect positive social change . MIA will launch the first-ever Center for Empathy ... One of the most meaningful aspects of this encounter is the awareness it can awaken of a common...

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Arts

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Aetna Foundation’s Healthiest Communities Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health

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03/26/2018

... The purpose of the Healthiest Communities project is to provide residents, policymakers and health leaders with ... where they can struggle to survive. Healthiest Communities is a data-driven counterpart to...

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