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Bloomberg Philanthropies

To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

... emissions. Bloomberg not only made New York City a leader in this area as mayor, but funded and also chaired C40, a ... change. Most recently, Bloomberg helped rally cities in the U.S. to affirm their...

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies ... considers the nation's chief diplomat a central figure in a case that pits the ambitious Democrat against a Texas ... liberal base on a...

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... are more suggestive. I have used Crowd a couple of times in powder rooms — it’s a true conversation starter. The ... one a 1955 newswire photo taken at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Easter Sunday, the other an...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, led by its Executive Director, ... that the Folger convenes. “Before Farm to Table will use the pervasiveness of food in...

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Food Systems

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Mellon Foundation

Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. ... providers, self-help centers, and lawyer referral services in their community. Increasingly, these...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

... at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and published in the journal Science, provides compelling evidence for a ... technical coordinator and one of 11 ORNL participants in COHERENT, a collaboration of 80...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... While the focus of most writing has been on the use of data for competitive advantage, a small set of ... Mastercard, which describes itself as a technology company in the payments industry, which connects...

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MasterCard Foundation

Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... Investments Really Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of ... world of philanthropy to share ideas and push advancements in impact investing. The...

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... students the higher education they need to compete in the global marketplace. Coverage of “Rethinking ... aid officers, policy experts and other key stakeholders. Use #NewsHourChats to join the conversation...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President

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09/05/2017

... voices” on the redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams ... for the embattled project. His input is a necessary step in the Uniform Land Use...

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Housing and Homelessness

Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence

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09/08/2017

... began hosting women-only online security workshops in 2016 to have a safe space to discuss and address digital ... and losing control over their personal information online. In July, The New York Times...

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Gender Justice

Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?

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09/08/2017

... New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and ... Devex. Shah was named head of the influential foundation in January, after serving as...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

... administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure through which a zoning change becomes ... As City Limits...

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Community Development

Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

Data-Driven Gender Equality Closing the gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the developing world. Today, for example, women make up ... to...

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Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

... oversight board found that he used excessive force. In the nearly two years that elapsed, Mr. Blake said he has ... on the officer’s guilt and possible punishment. And in the end, details of the punishment...

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Justice Reform

Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

... That’s the mechanism being used at the Pfizer site in Brooklyn, located in the Broadway Triangle, an area bordering the neighborhoods ...

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Housing and Homelessness

7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... consumer goods company might unveil its commitment to use digital payments, just as a minister of health announces ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution

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09/28/2017

... Peter Malinowski and a team of students and employees use them—an estimated one-tenth of the total amassed in the city each week—to build reefs and nurture oyster populations in New York...

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In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines North ... with Youth OutRight, a nonprofit organization based in Asheville that serves as a resource for LGBTQ...

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