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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... Fidelity reported a burst of giving after introducing a new iPhone application at the end of 2012. Using the free ... aid. So far this year, donors have used iPhones to make 1 ,800 grants to charities totaling...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research

Release Date:

10/27/2014

... of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research A new study has found that implementing stricter fisheries ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on this front. Led by Bloomberg Philanthropies, ...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Announces Detroit Service Corps to Strengthen City's Nonprofit Community

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11/04/2014

... Nonprofit Community JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced a new five-year program that sends teams of top-performing ...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... inception UNCDF had secured USD 5.6 million. The new commitment from The MasterCard Foundation is to donate ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Announces Scholars Finalists

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11/09/2014

... plans designed to expand their skills and knowledge in a new discipline, content area, or method. Applicants are ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With CMMI to Spread "Hospital at Home" Model of Care

Release Date:

11/14/2014

... older adults, the John A. Hartford Foundation has formed a new public-private partnership with the Centers for Medicare ... The Hartford Foundation grant will provide an additional $ 1 .6 million over four...

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

... First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

Release Date:

12/10/2014

... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in its infancy, ...

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How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact

Publication date:

12/2014

... How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact, a new learning brief co-authored by FSG and the Forum for Youth ...

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MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa

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01/21/2015

... Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. "This new Fund will stimulate private sector organizations to .....

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

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01/30/2015

... education tax credit, or ETC, a term unfamiliar to most New Yorkers. We would all do well to pay better attention, as ...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ...

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Increasing Public Understanding of Muslim Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program

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03/16/2015

... is awarding nine U.S. nonprofit organizations a total of $ 1 ,653,698 in grants as a result of the Building Bridges ... than1.6 billion Muslims—we need imaginative ways to open new pathways for connection and...

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MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

Release Date:

03/17/2015

... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

... prompting many in the foundation world to operate in new ways — and with approaches that could eventually turn ...

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Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

Release Date:

03/25/2015

... for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced a $ 1 million pledge from the MasterCard Center for Inclusive ... The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated...