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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50M to Museum of Science

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10/18/2016

... not know is that Bloomberg credits the Museum of Science for helping to shape who he became. “I went every Saturday, ... there starting when he was about 10 and through his high school years... Bloomberg...

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Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

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11/02/2016

... is Judith Rodin? Ask one of the 20,000 New York public school students who got to see the Broadway hit "Hamilton" ... weighed along with market performance. She directs giving at the historical...

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Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education

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11/08/2016

Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education Four new Jewish ... William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at The Jewish...

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

... throughout the country to develop new training modules for secondary school principals. Officials with the foundation say that the ... duties, and to more effectively lobby lawmakers for...

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PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

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04/18/2017

... through active mentorship. Women are a powerful force for positive change , and in order to unlock their transformational ...

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Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges

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09/05/2017

Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges Until last year, Ninotska Love would ... of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school 's 147-year history. " ...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows

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07/15/2020

... in our societies that marginalized communities have faced for generations. That’s why the work of our fellows is so ... Leslie Hewitt, The Cooper Union; Carin Kuoni, Vera List Center for Art...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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19 May 2010

Philanthropy New York's 31st Annual Meeting, with NYS Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 -

3:15pm to 6:30pm

MEMBERS and INVITED GUESTS: For late registrations, please email ... York State, Richard Ravitch , will be the featured speaker at our 31st Annual Meeting . He will be joined in an ... his appointment, Lt...

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"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs ... Dr. Blumenthal and Squires outline several options for addressing the challenge of runaway drug costs. They ... the monopoly...

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Health & Human Services

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition The story starts with financier and ... of marijuana legalization and other rollbacks of drug law , including ending criminal sentences...

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PRIs and Effective Intermediaries

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06/30/2015

... applied to “middlemen” who are commonly disparaged for making money while adding little value. As a trustee, ... Altman Foundation, and someone who supported the concept at the outset, I’m confident that the...

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Two Views on the Failure of Policing

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07/16/2015

... it should have been—that antagonism between American law enforcement and young black men had reached a dangerous ... City is a work of sociology (Goffman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin), and...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings Matt ... in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was hired in 2004 by the Brookings ... Congress...

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Coalition of Women’s Foundations Release Statement Supporting Key Elements of Obama Budget

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02/11/2016

... opportunity, promote equality and build economic stability for women and working families in America. These efforts include: expanding paid leave; promoting equal pay for equal work; enforcing worker...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Releases New Book on the Value of Diversity

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10/25/2016

... Foundation to explore the value of our growing diversity for the American democratic project -- the enactment of ... in the economy, in educational systems, in voting and the law and politics more generally,...

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Trump Administration Makes ACA’s Health-Insurer Payments for September

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09/22/2017

Trump Administration Makes ACA’s Health-Insurer Payments for September White House declines to block ‘cost ... last-ditch attempt by Republican senators to undo the law they call Obamacare. The uncertainty...

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Century Foundation President's Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt

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10/03/2017

... about rising student debt levels, Congress passed a new law to give students a deal: Work in the public sector, for instance as a teacher, and after 10 years of making ... under threat like never before...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Roy Swan to Lead Mission Investments Portfolio

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12/05/2017

... investment and corporate executive with a passion for using finance to achieve social impact, Swan will begin ... joining Ford, Swan held several high-level executive roles at Morgan Stanley, most recently...

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David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

Release Date:

12/21/2017

... and the Senate approved, is complex, but what it will mean for health in the United States is simple: less. It will mean less health insurance for individuals; less coverage for elderly and...

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