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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Chinese student ... and Peter Buffett’s Novo Foundation announced a $20 ...

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Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans

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03/23/2016

... Plans Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. Consider a young construction ... and must sign up for Medicaid. He had finally managed to control his diabetes with his primary care...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive ... Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch...

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Four Projects Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC

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04/01/2016

... NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC While finding affordable real estate is a challenge ... for the arts at the trust, which has spent nearly $5.6 ...

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

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05/31/2016

... Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance In its annual survey of high net worth business owners, U.S. ... owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny...

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Two Mexico City Landmarks Reopen With Support From The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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06/10/2016

... & Co. Foundation The Tiffany & Co. Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the newly restored Xochipilli Fountain and Composer’s Passage in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, one of the oldest...

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NYS Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration

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06/30/2016

... Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration The Supreme Court’s ... Health Foundation (NYSHealth), it also represents a blow to our efforts to...

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark ... “We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies over one...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

Warren Buffet Pledges$2. 9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others The billionaire investor gave away $2. 9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA...

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This ... for new textbooks and class schedules. But for the 2.5 million homeless kids...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

... Strategy U.S. President Barack Obama has tried his hardest to keep his distance from the Syrian war. Even as he has made ... an entire country, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process while...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices ... culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the ... at foundations in the U.S. and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or members of the Evaluation Roundtable, a ...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

Release Date:

09/30/2016

... on Low-Income Urban Youth (109 pages, PDF), found that in five urban districts participating in Wallace’s $50 million National Summer Learning Project, third-grade students who attended a...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free ... ranks as the most generous in terms of lifetime giving. To come up with...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap Recent advances in data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies ... know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real...

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NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation

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11/03/2016

... charismatic actor with the piercing blue eyes who starred in films like “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Sting” and ... hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. “We used to get stopped on the street, and somebody...

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

Release Date:

11/11/2016

... freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to go after critics), the rule of law (endorsing the murder ... wrote the University of Texas historian Jeffrey Tulis to The New York Times, is that “no...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families The Harry and Jeanette ... Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today welcomes community, civic,...

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SmartCEO Honors Weinberg Foundation President, Rachel Garbow Monroe, as CEO of the Year

Release Date:

12/16/2016

... She becomes the 14th SmartCEO of the Year recipient in Baltimore. Each year, SmartCEO magazine’s editorial ... and professional organization providing in excess of $100 million in...

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

Martin is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file. The JustLeadershipUSA founder raised his powerful voice to show the injustice of...

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