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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 know that you...

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Effective Journalism Is Now Part of Our College Completion Mission

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03/17/2015

by Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation For many years, The Edwin Gould Foundation has ... organizations that in turn helped individuals and cohorts of students was...

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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 Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U. S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , will help low and middle-income countries facing ... international trade agreements to ensure distribution of their products......

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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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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 ... Sohn Cancer Research Alliance has announced the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young ... and the biotech and pharmaceutical...

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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 ... or even your nation. Imagine the possibilities. That’ s what this book is about. It’...

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

... 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 of the AIDS United Southern REACH (...

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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 ... in communities across the country through the launch of Resilience AmeriCorps. The pilot program...

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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 ... and...

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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 schools and communities. Created by the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the Technology Student ...

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Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds

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11/12/2015

Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds Leonard Glickman is the chief executive officer of FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, which manages more than .....

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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 world who lack...

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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 ... total to nonprofit...

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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 leadership and meeting the needs of diverse learners, aim to guide supervisors as they help...

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

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01/25/2016

... Kaplan Fund Trustee Richard D. Kaplan Richard D. Kaplan of New York and Palm Beach died on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, ... 82. Mr. Kaplan was an architect and senior trustee of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a private New...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon

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03/24/2016

... through that business. But another Rockefeller-associated foundation , the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, led the way down ...

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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 increase the security of...

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Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations

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03/31/2016

... More than $1.6 million in additional grants from the Ford Foundation and Visa will ensure that the Filene Research Institute’ s Incubator continues to develop solutions that serve ... play a more active role...

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