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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

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08/05/2015

... announced the first cities selected to participate in What Works Cities - a $42 million initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve the...

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Community Development

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The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times

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10/13/2015

The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times When the Obama administration agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at Corinthian Colleges, a ... for-...

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Education

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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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The Mastercard Foundation Research Shows How African Youth Navigate Risk To Survive

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10/30/2015

... over the past six months into youth employment behaviours in Africa, where 600 million people are under the age of 25 and 72 percent of its youth live on less than US$2 per...

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Children, Youth and Families

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International/Foreign Affairs

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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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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Gates and JPMorgan Back White House Outreach to 'Unbanked'

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12/03/2015

... to 'Unbanked' The Obama administration announced a set of public-private programs Tuesday to expand financial services to the millions of low-income people in America and around the...

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Economic Security

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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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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Unemployment insurance (UI) is ... distress. But according to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior...

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Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

... and Bandages Today, nurses play multidimensional roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely ... Understanding current day nursing requires the surrender of outdated and reductionist...

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a rise in healthy communities. The American Public Health Association (APHA) and the National Association of Counties (NACo) are working with Aetna’s...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project

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04/15/2016

... City Council approved design concepts for a $1 million public art project funded entirely by Bloomberg ... Philanthropies. The project, called Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light , will include nine sites across...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Anti-Coal Campaign Reaches Milestone

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05/04/2016

... reached a major milestone Tuesday, with 100,000 megawatts of coal electricity capacity having announced shutdown plans ... The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, which launched in 2010 with the goal ...

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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

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05/24/2016

... Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management Floods hit upwards of 250 million people each year, causing more economic and human ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust $8.4M Gift Began the Process to Improve Care For Heart Attacks

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06/09/2016

... quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks. The Mission Lifeline program in South Dakota was made possible by the historic $8.4 million...

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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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Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book

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06/29/2016

... Photo Book More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets of New York City ... celebration of queer culture, drawing more than a million...

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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic In July 1981—35 years ago this month—The New York ... 41 Homosexuals.” The story also reported, “The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and there is...

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New York Health Foundation

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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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Justice Reform

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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 ... one. On average, food comprises between 13.7 and 15. 3 percent of a family’s annual...

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