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MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

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03/17/2015

... MasterCard Foundation and TechnoServe are announcing today a five-year, $25.9 million partnership to generate increased ... income and economic opportunities for 48,000 young people in rural East Africa...

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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

... of his heirs did last fall. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a family foundation with $860 million in assets and a long history of supporting environmental ... prompting many in...

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Citi is Giving Women the Tools to Shatter the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

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03/20/2015

... gap is irritatingly persistent across all income brackets in American cities. But as a Boston-based trading platform recently revealed, amazing ... women,” says Maria Torres-Springer, the Commissioner of...

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Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

... for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced a $1 million pledge from the MasterCard Center for Inclusive ... Project and sustain ongoing education programs in U.S. and internationally. The Global...

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MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

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Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans

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03/26/2015

... that the VA currently spends approximately $136,000 in services for every homeless veteran – “nearly every ... Very little attention is paid toward prevention. We need a paradigm shift,” noted Castro. ...

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

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04/03/2015

... bad news may sell, but more often than not, it comes at a price. The constant avalanche of depressing news can make any reader throw up their arms in sheer hopelessness, accidentally knock over their grande...

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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

... advocacy organization Community Catalyst has announced a $14.8 million legacy grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to ... to assess the financial complexity and risk involved with new models of care. The funds...

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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

... The Sierra Club and Michael Bloomberg are upping the ante in their effort to close down coal-fired power plants, ... climate change. "Dirty, outdated, deadly coal is a thing of the past," Sierra Club...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... Dance Project NEFA launched the National Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ... annually. “The Andrew W. Mellon...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Amerita Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

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04/24/2015

... Examines Impact of Take Our Daughters to Work Day In 1993, a small article announcing Take Our Daughters to Work Day in New York City appeared in Parade...

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Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

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04/29/2015

... the nine recipients of the Genesis Generation Challenge, a competition supporting innovative projects guided by Jewish ... poverty alleviation, and using data to drive impact in social good enterprises...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds

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05/06/2015

... Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds Brooklyn ... the first and only public foundation dedicated to New York City’s largest borough, is launching...

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Children, Youth and Families

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WNYC Celebrates Neighborhood Library Awards Nominees

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05/14/2015

... announced. Two of the judges, Jacqueline Woodson, who won a 2014 National Book Award for her young adult memoir Brown ... Library & Cultural Center, a branch of the Queens Library in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... traffickers have forced them to commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid in New York City, told The Huffington Post. But that system ...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance

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05/19/2015

... The Gerstner Family Foundation gift will support a two-pronged approach to the problem of cancer drug resistance: one based in the laboratory and the other in partnership with clinical .....

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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

... Chase & Co. today launched the JPMorgan Chase Institute, a global think tank that will deliver better data, analyses ... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released ...

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... University, and Monroe...

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

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06/04/2015

Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd The 2016 presidential-campaign season will ... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of...

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