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Five More Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Autonomous Vehicles

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01/31/2017

... Institute announced today that five cities have joined its global initiative to help city leaders plan and prepare ... world can use to chart their own paths forward with the new technology... Five More Cities...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

... ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek ... insurance over a 14-year period. The team has published its results in the journal...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... Academy Global Alumni Summit American Express will host its third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a ... the Summit attendees cite...

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

... cocktail bar Coup–short for coup d’etat–opened in New York’s East Village in mid-April, promising to donate ... There’s Finnegan’s, a brewery in Minneapolis with its own community fund to feed the hungry, and...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

... among Orban’s critics, who see the prime minister as leading an increasingly authoritarian and corrupt ... of law across the region. Orban’s Fidesz party passed new legislation in April that threatens ...

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Education

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable crises are always being ... process that factored in their potential effectiveness as well as the input of...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... bankruptcy. Over the years, the organization had thrived as a government provider, but a number of its big contracts were ending. For a long while, the ... they had done so innumerable times in the past. But...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... rates in the world—a statistic often credited to its famous “baby boxes.” The government mails these ... mother who signs up and comes in for a prenatal checkup. As a result, parents save time and money, and...

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM) ... children (adolescents aged 14–17) and youth (18–24), as recorded in their responses to...

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Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

... making national headlines and ending in deadly violence as a result of white nationalists, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan ... while completely unrelated, members and supporters of the New York Communities for...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious. Recently, ... on themselves. The other half were instructed to choose a new recipient each week on whom to spend...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... all these policies, and what, if any, are the benefits? A new nonprofit organization called The Greenfield Project aims ...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding A coalition of nonprofit ... activists have launched a recall campaign against the new mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin, a suburb of some 25,000 ... paper that...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... They continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the ... set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage was being cleared at the theater...

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TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect In a new TED Talk, Judge Victoria Pratt draws on her experience ...

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Justice Reform

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Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

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02/02/2018

... A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools New study by The Commonwealth Fund highlights Medicaid ... health. It is widely recognized that social factors, such as unstable housing and lack of healthy...

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first Wall Street bank ... stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new policy, announced Thursday,...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have the best and ... at each state’s ability to deliver medical care to its residents. The study broke down...

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TCC Group Study Reinforces Importance of Funder Affinity Groups for Collaboration

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05/18/2018

... each other and key nonprofits partners, both to deal with new threats and seize opportunities. Navigating all these ... which they “see themselves in the system, not apart, as capital sitting on the sidelines...

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