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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the grant will support implementation of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and the Tobacco...

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

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03/27/2015

... totaling nearly $3 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in support of...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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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 ... Cancer to launch the largest study ever of pre-treatment and drug-resistant tumors. By comparing the genome sequence of...

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... has announced pledges totaling $30 million in support of its national scholarship fund, which aims to provide ... action for childhood arrivals) status. Commitments of $15 million each from former Washington...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... Bill and Karen Ackman and The Pershing Square Foundation as our partners in advancing basic science....” Pershing ...

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Weinberg Foundation Launches Workforce Leadership Academy in Baltimore

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06/08/2015

... the Aspen Institute, has announced the inaugural cohort of a year-long learning and leadership program in the ... develop a strategic perspective to better meet the needs of low-income individuals seeking...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Facilitates Clinical Research with $8.7 Million in Grants

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07/14/2015

... enables early-career scientists to reserve three-quarters of their professional time for independent clinical research. ... This year's awardees — who are engaged in a broad range of areas, from...

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

... for forty-two hundred small businesses in rural areas of China; create or sustain more than twenty thousand jobs; and enhance the financial knowledge and skills of more than thirty-six hundred entrepreneurs...

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Three Important Steps Philanthropies Are Taking to Curb Climate Change

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07/29/2015

... national politics growing increasingly polarized, the role of philanthropy in combating climate change is more critical ... social, environmental, and economic policy challenge of our time. One example...

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Environment and Climate Change

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MetLife Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

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09/23/2015

... Report MetLife, Inc. announced the release of the company’s latest corporate responsibility report, ... makes on society while achieving its core business goals of managing risk and meeting its long-term...

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Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

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10/05/2015

... Agriculture in Rwanda Eric Pohlman was announced today as the winner of the 2015 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and ... 14, 2015, in a ceremony in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, as part...

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American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs

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10/05/2015

... Programs American Express and the National Association of Secondary School Principals today announced the five winners of the Principals Path to Leadership grant, a giving program ... from more than 70...

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Pfizer and UICC Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

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10/14/2015

... Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients During Breast Cancer ... Breast Cancer Challenge (SPARC MBC Challenge), a first- of -its-kind initiative to address...

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Gender Justice

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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

... Program Funded by Goldman It was, in the vernacular of corporate America, a win-win: a bond that paid for ... in a $260,000 payout for the Wall Street firm, the first of many payments that is expected from the...

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JPMorgan Renews Veterans Partnership with $13.8M Commitment

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03/01/2016

... through 2020 to support the Institute’s mission of advancing the post-service lives of America’s service members, Veterans and their families. ...

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Veterans

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... $75 Million for National Gallery The National Gallery of Art announced a $30 million challenge grant from the ...

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Arts

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JPB Foundation Grant Helps Affordable Housing Providers Install Solar Power

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04/13/2016

... nonprofit solar installer, today announced an expansion of its multifamily solar program to include free technical ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing and Homelessness

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Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

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04/21/2016

... Research Initiative on Thursday announced the launch of an online research initiative that aims to gather DNA and ... with autism and their family members. Although the cause of the social communication...

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