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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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

Release Date:

11/21/2014

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

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Ford Foundation

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

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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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Technology

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How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact

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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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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

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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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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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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Food Systems

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Goldman Sachs

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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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

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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International/Foreign Affairs

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Workforce Development

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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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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F.B. Heron Foundation

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...

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MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

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04/03/2015

... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build civic literacy and engagement...." Rita .....

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Technology

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Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System

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04/06/2015

... to assess the financial complexity and risk involved with new models of care. The funds also will support efforts to ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Health

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

... Michael Brune said at an event Wednesday announcing the new goal.... Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ...

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Community Development

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include .....

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Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd

Release Date:

06/04/2015

... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China. China’s middle ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

Release Date:

06/11/2015

... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has seen amazing ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

Release Date:

06/12/2015

... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases among Medicare-age individuals by ... of 173 local Y associations, to reach a total of least 1 ,124 of each Y's program sites...

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