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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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26 Jun 2014

Foundations for Social Impact Bonds

Thursday, June 26, 2014 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... has played a critical role in the nascent world of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Pay-For-Success (PFS). Foundations can act as investors by providing credit enhancement, grants, and ... Officer & Co-...

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Comparing Spending Down and Perpetuity - Should Charity Go on Forever?

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10/09/2014

... Go on Forever? Chuck Feeney, the 83-year-old co-founder of the pioneering retail business Duty Free Shoppers (the ... all his wealth, he became an early, outsized example of a new breed...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... cures has been slow," said James Lewis, a professor of medicine and clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania who led a two-year discovery and planning ... demand from both the medical and...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students A new study of more than 500 Black and Latino college students ... out of...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)

A new Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), an ... was developed by TCC Group to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges. ... (No individual foundations will be identified in any way in the field report.) As a participant in the ...

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Commonwealth Fund Brief Documents ACA’s Costs for Low- to Moderate-Income People

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03/18/2016

... marketplace plans, substantially lower deductibles, out- of -pocket spending limits, and copayments for a range of key health services, a new Commonwealth Fund brief finds. But because the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

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12/12/2016

... Norman Foundation since 2000, will step down at the end of December. Makela brought her years of experience in ... with a generational transfer of leadership, paving the way...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops Color in the plant kingdom is not merely a joy to ... benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

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02/06/2018

... Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body New scientific research has revealed how a small part of the brain singlehandedly steadies the body if it is thrown ... almost always steadied...

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"Risk Is a Fact of Life." A Conversation with Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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02/16/2018

"Risk Is a Fact of Life." A Conversation with Stephen Heintz of the ... 50 social sector leaders that Vivien Hoexter and Linda C . Hartley interviewed for their new...

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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently

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04/13/2018

... which Carson calls a “radical departure” from the way other community foundations operate, is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s office, and says that its goal is to “partner ... he said he...

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Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America

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04/17/2018

Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America Early on ... to make myself feel better,” he says. “I swiped the new fall colors off the Clinique counter at Macy’s . . ...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a ... be coerced to break in two? The answer, according to a new MIT study, is yes — with a...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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09 Apr 2019

Service for Impact - Effective Strategies in Aligning Employee Engagement and Business Priorities

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... Service for Impact Working Group, rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , provides an opportunity for both ... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities to make a...

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A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45%

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04/11/2019

A Decade of Impact: Bloomberg LP Improves Energy Efficiency by 45% ... energy by 2025. “We are committed to leading the way in the fight against climate change. In the coming year, ... his letter here . In 2018,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rita Allen Foundation Supports UC Berkley Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression

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10/29/2019

... Research Findings that Could Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression Researchers at the University of California, ... of motivation. The finding could guide research to find new...

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