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Salesforce Launches $50 Million Initiative To Fuel Social Impact Startups

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10/03/2017

... Fund, a $50 million initiative to accelerate the growth of startups that are using Salesforce technology to address some of the world's biggest problems. Through the fund, Salesforce ... will invest in...

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Salesforce Launches $50 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Social Change Startup

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10/05/2017

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City Signs Exclusive Deal With Pharmaceutical Firm for Anti-Overdose Drug

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10/10/2017

City Signs Exclusive Deal With Pharmaceutical Firm for Anti-Overdose Drug The city and state announced Monday ... entered into an exclusive one-year deal with the makers of an anti-overdose drug to quicken the...

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BNY Mellon Supports Australia’s First Commercial Thermal Waste-To-Energy Plant

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11/14/2018

... its appointment as Facility Agent & Security Trustee for an A$400m project finance facility by Macquarie Capital. The facility arrangement will fund construction of Australia’s first thermal Waste-to-...

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To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?”

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01/27/2016

To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?” By Brandee McHale, President, Citi Foundation The piece is excerpted from a chapter entitled ... Policy Institute, which has documented hourly wages...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation --want to see if the rapidly growing global supply ... around the world,” says a...

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Economic Security

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Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

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08/28/2014

... Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how ... justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager...

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Social Justice

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court A foundation is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a ... million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after...

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

... The Aspen Institute today launched an ambitious, first- of -its-kind project to shine light on economic forces that ... import but are unexplored relative to their consequences for millions of...

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Measuring Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums

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06/26/2018

... Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums As the Mellon Foundation considered how best to diversify curatorial staff ... realized that first we needed hard data to show the extent of the problem. In 2015,...

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Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation to Protect Non-Profits from Federal Tax Hike

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12/12/2018

... from the federal tax bill. This legislation decouples the New York State tax code from a change made to the federal ... the amount paid or incurred by any non-profit employer for commuter benefits, such as...

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“El Negro Bembón”: Puerto Rico’s Invisibility Crisis Before and After Hurricane Maria

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11/01/2017

... 27, 2017. I am yet again drawn to the musical wisdom of Afro-Boriqua singer Ismael Rivera and composer Cortijo ... “El Negro Bembón” it feels as if the song was written for this very moment. It is the story...

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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

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09/15/2017

... likely to drink than younger people — about 55 percent of older participants told interviewers they’d imbibed in ... 65 percent, to 3.8 percent. The researchers’ definition: for a man, downing five or more...

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We Can’t Force Philanthropy to Talk About Power Dynamics, Can We?

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11/05/2015

... Talk About Power Dynamics, Can We? By Jen Bokoff, Director of GrantCraft, Foundation Center As a sector, we embrace and use power every day, but we don’t talk about it. Why? Well, for one...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App For the last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been ... that strikes their fancy in the institution. A team of art educators sit around a cluster of...

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Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

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02/16/2017

... History Will Call Republican Health Reform In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

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Ford, ConEd: Bronx Children’s Museum Construction Begins

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07/24/2017

... its own children’s museum! NYC Parks and NYC Department of Design and Construction joined elected officials and community leaders in breaking ground for the long-awaited Bronx Children’s Museum on Wednesday...

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the ... loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising...

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Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up

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09/05/2017

... is done with health care. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education , Labor and Pensions Committee kicks off the first of four scheduled hearings this month examining the ... unexpected patient costs, and...

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