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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"

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12/12/2016

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a ... and “visionary” are two terms the Bank of America Charitable Foundation uses to describe the ... D.C. The foundation breaks down its giving into...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Arts

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... . The guide provides detailed descriptions and comparisons of three standards—Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Humane® ... farmer case studies, which offer a look at the experiences of...

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Animal Welfare

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Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

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05/10/2017

... public-interest journalism. Proposals are due June 30 . Three reporting projects will be selected to receive a $7,000 ...

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

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Rita Allen Foundation

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 three -year awards are intended to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in this area. The awardees are: Andrew Barton of the...

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Science

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and César A. Hidalgo and Ramesh ... Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS and the Department of Economics and Naik, a Prize...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

... with spending levels that rose continuously over the past three decades. Yet the U.S. population has poorer health than ... Timely and accessible health care could mitigate many of these challenges, but the U...

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Verizon Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers

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07/24/2017

... Foundation: Innovative Learning Program Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Careers Women are underrepresented in ... and math careers (STEM) careers. The percentage of women in STEM careers has stagnated since...

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Gender Justice

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Commonwealth Fund: In the Healthcare Aftermath

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08/02/2017

... Congress and administration — perhaps after a period of rest and reflection — can return to consider a modest set of fixes that will preserve the gains achieved under the ACA, ... reenroll during this fall’s...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

... more than 300 patients with chronic pain take part in a three -week program at the Pain Rehabilitation Center at Mayo ... during their time at Mayo. Still, more than 80 percent of the patients who enroll remain...

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Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

... Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters The Department of Homeless Services is quietly finalizing more than $98 ... that would turn five apartment buildings currently part of the notoriously mismanaged...

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Housing and Homelessness

A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

... to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with disabilities. Out of Michigan, an activist network pushes Muslims across the ... institute has trained more than 100 rising leaders. Those three projects emerged in...

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Raising Money from the Modern Family

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09/06/2017

... from the Modern Family Susan Sachs Fleishman is the type of supporter many a nonprofit would love to draw into their ... addition to her extensive volunteer work spanning nearly three decades, she donates...

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Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds

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09/12/2017

... in March, when President Trump released the first draft of his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he asked lawmakers for deep cuts to one of their favorite institutions, the National Institutes...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... world. Today, for example, women make up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, they typically work smaller, less productive plots of land than men, and often lack access to the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued. When President Donald Trump ... answer is, well, complicated. The overwhelming majority of these companies have no...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital

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09/20/2017

Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital Nearly three -quarters (73 percent) of philanthropic giving comes from individuals and donor ... steeper to the point that, today, as much as 95 percent of...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to ... (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an initial target size of US$300 million, the LDN Fund is a...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s battle with the Brooklyn Museum ... to be winning. On Monday, the Guggenheim decided to pull...

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Arts

Tax Plan Doubles Standard Deduction, Leaves Charitable Deduction In Place

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09/28/2017

... In Place Nonprofit leaders applauded the preservation of the charitable deduction but are wary of other changes that might hurt charitable giving, such as ... seven tax brackets ranging from 10 to 39.6 percent...

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