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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funds Heart Attack Care in the Rural Midwest

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02/09/2015

Helmsley Charitable Trust Funds Heart Attack Care in the Rural Midwest The American Heart Association, Midwest Affiliate, has received a $4.6 million grant award to enhance systems of care, save...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Deutsche Bank, MetLife, Prudential and Posner-Wallace Join Forces for Capital Consortium Fund

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03/17/2015

... Global Social Finance Group today announced the closing of the Essential Capital Consortium (ECC), a five-year USD 50 million social enterprise fund, which is part of its family of...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Earthquake Rocks Nepal

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04/28/2015

... a.m. EDT on April 25, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Nepal, in an area between the capitol city of Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara, according to the U.S. .....

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Disaster Relief

Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

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05/04/2015

... you’re always flirting with disaster. Whether you live in the drought-ridden West, the hurricane-prone Southeast, ... them by becoming resilient, says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation...

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Bloomberg and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population

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06/01/2015

... and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population Tobacco use represents the leading cause of death and disease in the world. Today, approximately 1.3...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula

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08/06/2015

... Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the University of Michigan'...

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Arts

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Director Examines Link Between Art and Economic Development

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08/18/2015

... climate is today more imperiled than it ever has been in the modern era, a situation that has affected nearly every aspect of life in the country. This has included, of...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Arts

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Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America

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09/01/2015

Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America Feeding America® and Bank of America today ... Charitable Foundation will give $2 more, up to $1.5 million...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Community Development

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... commanding headlines and emerging as major talking points in the presidential campaign, at least for Democrats. They are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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

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12/01/2015

... older people want. A study from the National Conference of State Legislatures and AARP, as well as other studies, ... time and again, that the vast majority of us want to live in our homes...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than ... to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Presidential Candidates Ignore Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund)

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02/10/2016

... Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund) On the eve of the first votes of the 2016 presidential contest – a ... administration,” says Carol Levine, a national advocate for the 40 ...

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Aging

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

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02/23/2016

... Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, ... claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger...

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Commonwealth Research Cited by NYTimes on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans

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03/23/2016

... on Reducing Bounce Between Health Plans Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. Consider a young construction worker, a patient of mine, whose hours are cut during the winter. His...

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

... a “rather quiet Wednesday.” That afternoon, she was in her cubicle at the Open Society Foundations, on West ... in Eurasia. The Foundations are the philanthropic creation of George Soros, the...

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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

... Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance In its annual survey of high net worth business owners, U.S. ... of 242 high net worth business...

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Bank of America Private Bank

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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 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 public ... parks...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... The billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ), ... 11 years in a row. This year, Buffett is giving 19.6 million...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... 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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