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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research. Established in 2013 as part ...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand ... research efforts focused on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells...

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Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U.S. Higher Education System

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06/03/2015

Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U.S. Higher Education System As presidential ... candidates declare why they seek to be elected in 2016, they are promising jobs, growth, and a...

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City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens

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07/02/2015

City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens City Hall may be stalled so far in ... Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday the launch of a program to...

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China The MetLife Foundation has announced a three-year, $1.8 million grant to Opportunity International to promote ... for forty-two...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... they started their jobs within a few months of each other in...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this nation the ... a nearly 2,000-mile border with the U.S., is the source of...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

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11/05/2015

... Health Expert Anita Zaidi Worldwide, more than six million children die before their fifth birthday each year, the majority of whom are children born into poverty. In a recent Conversations...

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JPMorgan Renews Veterans Partnership with $13.8M Commitment

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03/01/2016

... Commitment Five years after cofounding the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse ... & Co. and the university announced today a renewed $13.8 million commitment through 2020 to...

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

... the state Supreme Court to take up a dispute about $24.6 million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after he died in 2008. The...

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Ford Foundation's $190M Revamp Receives Landmarks Approval

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04/21/2016

... Foundation can now move forward with the planned revamp of its iconic Midtown building, after the city's Landmarks ... approved the proposal Tuesday afternoon. The $190 million undertaking will bring the...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Leverage Linked Data for Enhanced Information Access

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04/28/2016

... Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Stanford a $1.5 million grant to support library initiatives that develop and advance the use of linked open data. Stanford Libraries will coordinate a ... and storage...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... Research Awardees Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation ... (RDPFS), has announced the first grantees in its $1.2 million , two-...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Gives $5.5M to Launch Mobile Simulation Initiative for Rural Emergencies

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07/27/2016

... Simulation Initiative for Rural Emergencies The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received a $5.5 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... emergency medical providers...

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Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population

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08/04/2016

... Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population The American Civil ... Justice when it was launched in November 2014 with a $50 million gift from the...

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

... period crucial to the program that has helped millions of people gain health coverage. Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, ... Blue Shield and Kaiser...

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Century Foundation Report Maps the Effects of a $15 Minimum Wage on Food Insecurity

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09/01/2016

Century Foundation Report Maps the Effects of a $15 Minimum Wage on Food Insecurity For American ... 13.7 and 15.3 percent of a family’s annual expenditures in the U.S. But when...

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Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy

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11/30/2016

... Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy For the superrich and the ... firm Bridgespan Group researched social-change gifts of $25 ...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

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12/05/2016

... havoc on the planet. Its thirst drains Lake Geneva of its water three times a year, its hunger devours a third of all of Earth’s food, and its breath emits greenhouse gases at a ...

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