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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years Washington, D.C., became a magnet for ... more than $31 million from national foundations, according to an analysis by two professors at...

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Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda

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09/02/2015

... Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda Globally, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to the disease occur...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... Berkeley. The Learning Policy Institute will be based in Palo Alto, Calif. but will also have a Washington office. ... like accountability and assessment. Congress is about to pass a bill reauthorizing the No...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson ... (DARPA) fund much of the U.S. government’s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

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09/23/2015

... of the world’s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term target on Wednesday of powering their ... operations entirely with renewable energy, the latest in a wave of commitments suggesting that...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

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09/24/2015

... Strategy Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of new Russian troops and military equipment ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Immigration

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... If you sometimes feel like you have a little foreman in your head who keeps you on track while you work ... through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown University...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds People May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan

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11/06/2015

... The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, added new elements that can heighten the confusion: Consumers have to navigate four different levels of plans, determine what ... shoppers are unaware of the...

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... Health System for the Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower costs for “high-need, high-cost” patients. In a blog...

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in socially responsible investing. Just as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach to funding the private...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform A new precedent was set recently when Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced a plan to establish 20 as the age of jurisdiction for the state’s ... the...

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Justice Reform

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

... news that UnitedHealth Group is considering leaving the new health insurance marketplaces established under the ... is not really the issue. The insurer was a minor player in the individual market before the...

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The Nation Details Eric Holder’s Appearance at Ford Foundation

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12/14/2015

... were at the forefront of the public consciousness, from a new assault on voting rights to the Black Lives Matter movement to a rethinking of mass ... “All Eyez on Me.” Holder is an important...

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling ... was the question posed just a few months ago by an article in NiemanLab, a news industry publication. Late Monday ... the...

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Communications/Media

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic positions will be impacted in very ... ways, according to The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues ... people of Iowa were caucusing and the outcome was still in doubt. Eyes are trained on New...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The ... and lift the performance of struggling pupils. But in doing so, many schools may have overlooked a proven educational innovation:...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20% An alliance made up of ... 10 years than they would have prior to their involvement in the group. UIA...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art Museum-goers tend to be unaware of the vast network of copyright protections ... begun by Mr. Rauschenberg 18 years before his death in 2008, has been a part of this system...

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