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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...

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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 awarded grants to programs that promote low-income college completion. But...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco Bill Gates and ... big tobacco companies desperate to offset falling sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere. The fund...

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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...

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OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug

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03/25/2015

OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug The drug ... known under the brand name Narcan, it is an antidote to heroin overdoses. It reverses the effects of heroin and ... countries, naloxone...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

... 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part of a $25 million partnership between the Pershing ... and Sohn Conference foundations,...

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How The Atlantic Philanthropies Changed Lives Through Building

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05/18/2015

... Lives Through Building Imagine having the resources to build something that can dramatically alter the lives of ... even nations. Conversely, imagine an unassuming man coming to you and asking what you could...

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South With backing from the Ford Foundation , AIDS United awarded $1 million in grants to ...

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Ford and RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data

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07/01/2015

Ford and RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data The heads of the Bullitt, ... Brothers Fund said they had provided their diversity data to GuideStar, an organization that compiles data on ... groups on the...

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Rockefeller Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program

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07/13/2015

... Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program The Rockefeller Foundation announced their latest commitment to building resilience in...

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Winning Ingredients: What Philanthropy Can Learn from the Marriage Equality Movement

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... leaders and advocates from the field who have worked to achieve the freedom to marry. With special, but not ... we will explore the role philanthropy played in shaping and helping to...

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Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code

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09/01/2015

Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code Young girls were told that they ... chief social corporate responsibility officer and Verizon Foundation president Rose Kirk and several...

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

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11/12/2015

... Philanthropic Funds, which manages more than $255 million in assets. It administers more than 1,000 donor-advised funds and has distributed more than $370 million to charities in 25 countries...

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Gates and JPMorgan Back White House Outreach to 'Unbanked'

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12/03/2015

Gates and JPMorgan Back White House Outreach to 'Unbanked' The Obama administration announced a set of ... financial services to the millions of low-income people in America and around...

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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 ...

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New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work

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12/10/2015

... 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 those principals...

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

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12/10/2015

... and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs and it's up to the city ... for the Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum, held in the Deutsche Bank...

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Grace Nicolette Named CEP’s Vice President, Programming and External Relations

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01/19/2016

... Philanthropy (CEP) announced Grace Nicolette’s promotion to vice president, programming and external relations. ... assumed the new role this month. She previously served as a manager on CEP’s assessment and...

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

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01/25/2016

In Memoriam: J.M. Kaplan Fund Trustee Richard D. Kaplan ... trustee of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a private New York-based foundation noted for its commitment to pioneering projects in...

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