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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... ahead of time guide the whole-table conversations. There are no fundraising requests at the dinners. The goal is to ...

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Sector News

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This Is How NYC Plans To Solve Its Homeless Problem

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10/03/2017

New York City may have found a way to combat homelessness.

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Sector News

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Housing and Homelessness

How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility

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02/09/2018

... the various gaps in our world of work today, and to find ways to work even smarter and to introduce new career paths, ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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Improving the Accuracy of Wikipedia’s Medical Information

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01/06/2015

... most-visited website , and its 26,000 health care articles are requested by Web users 178 million times a month. ... that they were excited to complete assignments that are useful, rather than an assignment...

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Insights

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New York Health Foundation

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Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

The country’s only independent polling agency has been accused under a new law of overtly political activity, due in part to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Grant Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for Inequality Research Studies

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05/27/2015

... in studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that will enhance the work of researchers, ...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Public Policy

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Ford Foundation Awards $1 Million to Help Prisoners Get a College Education

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08/06/2015

... nationally, and to conduct advocacy work on the best ways to help people after they leave prison.... Ford ...

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Education

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Q&A with Sreenivasan: The Met Engages Audiences with Digital Technology (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/02/2016

Through innovative partnerships and bold approaches, the Bloomberg Philanthropies arts program increases access to culture using new technologies. The chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses the intersection of art and...

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Arts

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Wallace, Mellon Foundations Embrace Identity and Race

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04/21/2016

... aims to spend $52 million on a study identifying ways arts organizations can expand audience engagement while ...

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Arts

Abortion Rates Hit Historic Low In Developed World But Not Elsewhere

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05/13/2016

... Low In Developed World But Not Elsewhere Married women are much more likely to have them. Where they're illegal or .....

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Gender Justice

Century Foundation Report Analyzes 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face

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05/18/2016

The report suggests that students face bias from some professors based on stereotypes and that this creates "stereotype threat" in which students may come to doubt their own abilities.

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Education

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U.S. Trust Study Says the Rich Feel Strongly About Giving to Improve Society

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05/23/2016

... time, skills, or services to charities, rich individuals are showing their confidence in the nonprofit world. Among ...

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Bank of America Private Bank

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In WSJ, Commonwealth’s Blumenthal on Making Health Records Mobile

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06/29/2016

... term “health information exchange” or HIE. There are some technical barriers to HIE, but they are not the big problems. The big problems are economic and cultural... In WSJ, Commonwealth’s ...

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Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness

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07/22/2016

... is challenging that definition as policymakers look for ways to curb the effects of growing student debt. The ...

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Economic Security

MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems

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08/23/2016

... of Businesses Confronting World's Problems More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money ... see how the corporations doing good by way of big business are spread out across...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

With Funds From Helmsley Charitable Trust, Researchers Target Fat to Treat Cancer

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09/20/2016

Fat isn't just something we eat: it may also lie at the heart of a new approach to treating cancer.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller Leads Initiative to Help Young People Without College Degrees Land First Job

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09/21/2016

... College Degrees Land First Job WNYC has been looking at ways the country can create economic opportunity for more ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case Examples by Grantees

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10/31/2016

... and Case Examples by Grantees Service organizations are meeting the immediate needs of their constituents and ... budgets, and greater demand on their services, nonprofits are looking for new ways...

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Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?

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11/01/2016

The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.

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