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Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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01/22/2018

... WNYC , correspondent Matt Katz has the story of how new American policies are creating uncertainty for a married ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Goldman Sachs Brings 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative to Detroit

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12/01/2013

... in downtown Detroit, and the Detroit Development Fund , which will direct its lending to small businesses ...

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Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and Autism Science Foundation launch Autism BrainNet registration site

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05/16/2014

The Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Autism Science Foundation today announced the launch of the Autism BrainNet registration site, It Takes Brains ( www.takesbrains.org ). Autism BrainNet is a consortium of academic sites funded...

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19 States May Be Violating Laws Requiring Them To Assist Consumers With Health Care Choices

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06/25/2014

... Consumers With Health Care Choices A Commonwealth Fund analysis finds that 19 states may be in violation of ...

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Americans' Wait Time To See Doctors Is Longer Than in Many Other Countries

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07/05/2014

... the United States toward to the bottom in a Commonwealth Fund study of wait times for treatment in 11 countries. ... more financially lucrative for hospitals and doctors, such as knee-replacements, M.R.I.s or...

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Rockefeller Foundation President Profiled in BusinessWeek

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10/03/2014

... away one of America’s historic fortunes. One problem: “ As rich as Rockefeller” doesn’t mean quite what it once did. The ...

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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... funneled billions of his fortune, built through his hedge fund and famous deals like when he shorted the British pound ...

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Dyson Foundation Backs Service Week in the Mid-Hudson Region

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05/15/2015

Omega Service Week is an annual community building event in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

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Median Pay For CEOs In Health Care Companies Higher Than Any Other Industry

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05/27/2015

Commonwealth Fund research cited in analysis of America's rising .....

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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

... the National Conference of State Legislatures and AARP, as well as other studies, confirm, time and again, that the vast ... majority of us want to live in our homes and communities as we age...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly brain cancer. Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to turn this engine of tumor growth into a target for cancer treatment.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller Partnership to Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery

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01/25/2016

The Rockefeller Foundation, Veolia, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions launched an infrastructure recovery initiative designed to accelerate the economic recovery of cities in the aftermath of catastrophic natural disasters.

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... 2015 was approved. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies for being ...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... population has tripled to about 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013, 8 million Americans—one in 40—were behind ...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

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04/17/2017

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the role played by several Apache projects in the investigation of the Panama Papers.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’

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08/29/2017

... project aims to explore how environmental factors such as climate change affect the ecology of salt marshes, which serve as an important carbon sink. “I have been asked to contact ... the wording in your...

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Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is

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08/30/2017

Newman’s Own marks its 35th anniversary this month. It was on Aug. 25, 1982, that the philanthropic company shipped its first bottles of olive oil and vinegar salad dressing.

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In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

... argue that the fundamental failing of what became known as Diller Island was that, as a plan for a public space, it was just far too reliant on ...

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Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

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09/22/2017

... each customer. So it is cutting their funding, some by as much as 90 percent, the government told the groups last week. But the navigators, as they're called, say the government doesn...

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