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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Animal Welfare

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... Economic Disparities Today marks the 107th observance of International Women's Day. According to the U.S. Census ... media are celebrating what they're calling the Year of the Woman and trusting that...

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Gender Justice

Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

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03/30/2016

... Club Sandra Schwarzer, global director of human resources at Open Society Foundations, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world, and her ... George Soros’s global organization announced that all...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center

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06/22/2016

Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center Construction soon ... ongoing for months,” Donald Lassere, president and CEO of the Ali Center, said in an interview on June 8, two days .....

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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

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08/24/2016

Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist In the private sector, ... find the best opportunities. The team evaluates thousands of potential deals per year, but...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Impact Investing

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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The Forum Welcomes Jay Hutchins as Associate Director of Policy and Communications

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04/24/2017

The Forum Welcomes Jay Hutchins as Associate Director of Policy and Communications The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers is pleased to ... MD, and was a Clinton Administration...

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

... considered impossible with the older paper-based systems of tracking blight. With Instagram, inspectors could snap a photo of a property and have it appear on a map, showing officials ... property information...

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Community Development

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Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change

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07/25/2017

Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How ... city is still rebuilding in some areas — and, with an office of recovery and resiliency and a city-wide strategy — ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published

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07/26/2017

... a longstanding commitment to children and families as one of its core priorities. Recently the Foundation conducted research on government funding of early childhood, early education and related programs...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease

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08/29/2017

... and hardship. We’ve seen that impulse in the case of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust which became a leader in the oft-neglected field of type 1 diabetes after the daughter of...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Health

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Carnegie Corp.’s Academic Leadership Award Recognizes Seven University Presidents

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09/12/2017

... Seven University Presidents Carnegie Corporation of New York today named seven exceptional American college and university presidents as recipients of its Academic Leadership Award. The honor consists ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... have been happening for decades, but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for ... research over the next decade. The move is one of , if not the biggest example to date...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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IBM Corporation

Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/19/2017

... Efforts Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, today announced a $100,000 donation to ... and inland cities in Texas, which is now a federal state of disaster. "Hurricane...

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Disaster Relief

Macquarie Group Foundation

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

... Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) board of directors today elected new officers and welcomed five new ... board meeting. Reverend Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of Deaconess Foundation in St...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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NoVo Foundation

Time To Revisit Reporting

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10/04/2017

... Myrick, consultants to Project Streamline an initiative of PEAK Grantmaking, was originally published by the Center ... . Back when Project Streamline — a project of PEAK Grantmaking — was a fledgling...

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

... York City) — Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and ... to support strategic planning efforts with the goal of maximizing the impact of...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many ...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

SVdP-USA Launches Disaster Services Corporation

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10/05/2017

... Launches Disaster Services Corporation The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP-USA) has launched Disaster ... The corporation, which will remain under the auspices of SVdP-USA’s national council, represents a...

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New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education

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12/01/2017

New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education Nearly 90 percent of high school graduates can expect to enroll in an ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford Foundation Appoints Roy Swan to Lead Mission Investments Portfolio

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12/05/2017

... The Ford Foundation announced today the appointment of Roy Swan as director of its Mission Investments team based in New York. Swan will ... investments (MRIs). His team also leads one of the...

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