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The Atlantic Philanthropies Welcomes Bruce Trachtenberg as Executive Producer and Editor

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05/08/2015

... Bruce Trachtenberg as Executive Producer and Editor In his new role, Trachtenberg will work closely ... make that happen. Given his deep knowledge and experience in foundations and communications, Bruce’s...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Arts

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Russell Pennoyer Joins William T. Grant as Board Chair

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06/17/2015

... of Trustees. Pennoyer succeeds Henry Gooss, who has served in the role since 2009. Pennoyer, a senior advisor to Brittany Capital Group, rotated off the board in June 2014 after serving four consecutive terms...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Lori Evans Bernstein Joins Board of United Hospital Fund

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06/29/2015

... diagnosed and treated. She has over 20 years’ experience in health care and health information technology. Her ... operations and health services and policy research. In the public sector, she has served as a...

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Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant

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07/16/2015

Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant ... them with clean energy has enabled the United States to lead the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

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10/19/2015

... Community Transformation Philanthropy is trending in a new direction and women are leading the way. The newest ... leaders of the women's collective giving movement gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina,...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Gender Justice

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... Traffic crashes are the 9th leading cause of death in the world and are the number one cause of death for people ... countries adopt these measures. We’ve been working in ten low- and middle-income countries...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

Release Date:

11/06/2015

... biases, belief systems, and norms. African-American girls in school encounter race and gender biases, which lead them to be unfairly labeled as aggressive, unfeminine, ... social correction. These biases play...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40's Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit

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11/25/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40's Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit C40’s new report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, contains exciting and encouraging news ... –...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Public Policy

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

Release Date:

12/10/2015

... co-directors of the NoVo Foundation, wrote an op-ed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, calling for a model of ... to counter that trend. The hyper-focus on measurement, in their view, ignores what truly...

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Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. He has a long history of working with youth and in his most recent role at NJHI helped design, develop, and ... themselves have the...

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International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)

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02/03/2016

... – and scratch. Those bloodsucking bed bugs are endemic in every major city, and they’re very hard to get rid of. A ... sequencing the bed bug gene that is published this month in the journal, Nature...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... and other vulnerable populations. The first publication in the series profiled the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in the U.S. place untenable burdens on an...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

... and analyzing input from nearly 1,000 participants in our 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created ... new vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in our neighborhoods but around...

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Community Development

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Coalition of Women’s Foundations Release Statement Supporting Key Elements of Obama Budget

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02/11/2016

... announced today its support of the investments outlined in President Obama’s Budget to expand opportunity, promote ... build economic stability for women and working families in America. These efforts include...

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The New York Women's Foundation

Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and ... stimulant--fish lacking the gene take longer to wake up in the morning and are less...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes They are four relatively obscure humanitarians: an orphanage founder in Burundi who challenged a bloodthirsty mob and other dangers; the only...

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Flying the Colors: Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center

Release Date:

03/17/2016

... Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center In celebration of ten years of advancing healthcare through ...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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28 Apr 2016

Interested in Working in Philanthropy?

Thursday, April 28, 2016 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... group informational interviews to explore career paths in the philanthropic sector, as part of our " Interested in Working at a Foundation " series. This April, we will ... field of philanthropy from...

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