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Charles Nuñez, Community Advocate at Youth Represent, Was Only 17 but Charged as an Adult

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05/10/2016

... Represent from Philanthropy New York on Vimeo . In 2007 he was a normal teenager who wanted to be a handsome ladies man ... life which resulted in an arrest for a violent felony. He was only 17 but charged as...

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Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline

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02/02/2017

As the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and double up on efforts to revive a slowing fossil fuels industry, the rest of the world is pulling out of coal projects and redirecting investment towards renewables...

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Arabella Advisors

12 Jul 2017

Service for Impact

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

As the workforce continues to change, it is shaping how volunteer opportunities are delivered and perceived in the workplace. Companies are evolving their corporate volunteerism strategies to meet varying needs. From the greying of the workforce,...

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Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing Up Intersex

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02/27/2017

... purge. When the identity of an intersex man named Julius was leaked to a newspaper, for example, the harassment he ...

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

The Systematic Starvation of Those Who Do Good

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02/28/2017

... into our workforce with higher levels of student debt, making low pay all the more burdensome... The ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

Thanks to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign (which I have supported through my foundation), we have already achieved two-thirds of the emissions reductions envisioned by President Obama’s yet-to-be-implemented power plant regulations.

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The Michael R. Bloomberg Family Foundation

Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations

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04/13/2017

This is the benefactor who built chicken coops inside a Manhattan high-rise, released mosquitoes on an unsuspecting audience, and drank purified poop water—all to make some larger point more memorable.

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Technology

As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

A new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Wallace Foundation

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: A 19th Century Fortune Tackles 21st Century Problems

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05/17/2017

... developed an eco-resort), the Asia Society (where John 3rd was the first president) and Spelman College (named in honor ... been better known for its investments than for its grant- making . In 2014, RBF made...

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Commentary from Century Foundation: TrumpCare Premium Increases Mapped

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06/01/2017

... and other administration officials have threatened to stop making payment for cost sharing subsidies should the AHCA not ...

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The Century Foundation

The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

Early-career biomedical scientists who explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond, are recognized as young leaders in science.

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Rita Allen Foundation

New Milbank-Supported Report: The Impact of Primary Care Practice Transformation on Cost, Quality, and Utilization

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07/11/2017

Authored by the Robert Graham Center and summarizing studies published between November 2015 and February 2017, the report found that the concept of PCMH has evolved and new models of high-performing primary care are emerging.

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/27/2017

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced the 17 junior physician scientists receiving the 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years.

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Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis

Release Date:

08/02/2017

... suspended at least once during the 2015–16 school year, making them more than twice as likely to be suspended from ...

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Casey Family Programs

Burke Foundation’s Catalyst Program Seeking Applications

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08/23/2017

For those working in the early childhood development sector, the Burke Foundation is seeking applications for its Catalyst Program, which has a specific focus on children’s issues, as well as the health, financial security, and cohesiveness of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Burke Foundation

Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

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08/29/2017

... Park Blog). Their reasons are threefold: the group says it was not given the opportunity to provide input before the ...

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The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists

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08/30/2017

... outside Nashville with far less fanfare. The occasion was the annual American Renaissance conference, where ...

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

In talking with the leaders of nonprofit organizations across the sector, there is a single truism that undergirds all of our conversations: limits on overhead create a pressure that deeply impacts the choices and tradeoffs leaders wrestle with...