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Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

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10/24/2014

... young, motivated, and unemployed. And while the problem of youth unemployment, occuring between ages 16 to 24, has ... gets even worse. Caucasian youth have an unemployment rate of around 12 percent, while the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

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03/27/2015

Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants ... The Aetna Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities grants...

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Food Systems

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Doris Duke and Simons Foundations Back Breakthrough Sickle Cell Research

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09/18/2015

... hemoglobin disorders, such as thalassemia. This stretch of DNA, called an enhancer, controls the molecular switch ... whether a red blood cell produces the adult form of hemoglobin — which in SCD is mutated —...

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

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11/12/2015

... has settled, you know that some affiliates will drop out of the network entirely, leaving fewer recipients able to get ... board or any funder support a strategy of doing less? At Communities...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health & Rehabilitation app. Findings were published Oct. 20 in the American Journal of Physical Medicine &...

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Verizon

Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... country’s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully slow recovery have housing prices begun to ... live paycheck to paycheck and 25% have no savings at all; nearly half of all...

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Economic Security

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Capital One [Corporate]

JPB Foundation Promotes Betsy Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program

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04/22/2016

... Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program As of April 18, 2016, Betsy Krebs has been promoted to Vice President, Poverty at the JPB Foundation. She will manage the Foundation’s grantmaking programs with the...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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“Repeal and Replace” Gives States More Control over Healthcare Market

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01/27/2017

... implores federal agencies to act within the constraints of the ACA to delay or even waive portions of the law that they believe place too high a cost burden on ... to minimize unwarranted economic and...

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President Of Montauk-Based Environmental Advocacy Organization Stepping Down

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02/02/2017

President Of Montauk-Based Environmental Advocacy Organization Stepping ... with the organization since 2012, will be stepping down at the end of March, 2017, to join The Nature Conservancy .....

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Jonas Center Supports Global Health Nursing in the Dominican Republic

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02/03/2017

... Dominican Republic Medical Partnership and the University of Missouri in their efforts to expand a successful ... communities and very well-received. Due to the success of this program, the Jonas Center...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Barbara and Donald Jonas Receive Honorary Doctorates from Frontier Nursing University

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08/01/2017

... Doctorates from Frontier Nursing University In honor of their extensive support and contributions to the advancement of nursing, Frontier Nursing University awarded honorary ... their own masterpiece: The...

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... Models in the Nonprofit Sector 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...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Teams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico

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10/18/2017

... donate $300,000 to Puerto Rico relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The gift, announced on Tuesday, will aide ... energy grid. (As of press time, Maria had claimed at least 48 lives...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Disaster Relief

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Boys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds

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11/29/2017

... begs to differ. And so do the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. Beginning in 2014, the Milwaukee ... practices formulated by Wallace in 2013.Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee created a...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America

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12/15/2017

John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America Recent grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation are one of the few bright spots in philanthropic support for seniors, .....

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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SeaChange Capital Partners to Help Facilitate Merger of Chicago Non-Profits

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12/18/2017

SeaChange Capital Partners to Help Facilitate Merger of Chicago Non-Profits Nonprofit mergers are an oft-discussed ... merger is tricky business that requires a defined set of conditions from both organizations to...

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Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

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01/11/2018

... to five national organizations to strengthen the field of impact investing. The five grants complete a special ... announced in February 2017, to allocate $100 million of its endowment to impact investing to...

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UJA-Fed NY Launches Digital Resource to Support Disability Inclusion in Congregational Life

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02/13/2018

... that involvement in a religious community enhances quality of life for people with disabilities. Likewise, congregations ... are enriched when every member feels a true sense of belonging. Yet, even with this...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Disabilities

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... million endowment entirely into impact investments. As of the end of the year, about 60% of Heron's funds were in such ... We concluded that just wasn't true anymore. So we looked...

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