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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... has been that of Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation and keeper of its $12-billion-plus endowment, who ... changing times like a glove. But so does Mr. Walker’ s other major strategic shift:...

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Atlantic's Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International Philanthropy

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09/21/2015

Atlantic 039 ; s Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International ... people around the world. Established as a limited-life foundation , Atlantic will complete its grantmaking in 2016...

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Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

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09/22/2015

... Sam Adler-Bell, a policy associate for The Century Foundation , who focuses on research surveillance, privacy, ...

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Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

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10/21/2015

Newman 039 ; s Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend Make A ... good. Tens of thousands will participate in the nation 039 ; s largest day of volunteerism, sponsored by...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

... Muslim Integrated Community, CAMBA, Light the World Foundation , Google, Cablevision, Con Edison, the Mac Support ...

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

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01/11/2016

... years," said Inder Verma, professor in the Salk Institute 039 ; s Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper ... Institutes of Health, the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico 039 ; s soda taxes raised sugar-sweetened beverage prices by ... reduction in purchases of sugary drinks after the law 039 ; s...

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

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04/25/2016

... in Paris in November-December 2015 was approved. Norway’ s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies ... for being over-reliant on fossil fuel, and the Rockefeller Foundation has divested...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... that unusual. It was the right alliance.” This week’ s summit was organized by national foundations including the ...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... better than any European or Asian nation today. It’ s an extraordinary success story. But how should this ... principle of moral pedagogy — but disastrous as a foundation for democratic politics in our...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn 039 ; s Disease in Asia The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How ... be described? What lessons can it offer? The Fund’ s founding brothers represented an...

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Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

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05/10/2017

... reporting and build cooperative networks, the Rita Allen Foundation is supporting the Center for Cooperative Media ... like to hear from local news outlets across the U. S . and from projects that include...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom Generosa Gonato 039 ; s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer ... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters ...

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

... delivery underscores the fact that public health in the U. S . still has much room for improvement. These disparities are ... matter how well a economy is performing — or how large a foundation ’ s...

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early ...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized criminal justice system. Plenty of ... in to pitch Ackman and the board of his Pershing Square Foundation , not knowing what to expect...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious ... personality, crazy life story, and his and wife Marilyn’ s game-changing giving. But his...

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

... tens of thousands of individual donors. Hurricane Harvey’ s damage will cost the region tens of billions of dollars, ... Maislin, chief executive of the Greater Houston Community Foundation , said he expects...

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