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NY Community Trust Gives More than $800,000 to Bring Technology-Driven Learning to NYC Youth

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09/12/2016

... and produce documentary films. The money is the latest in $8 million in grants in six years for students' digital ... media projects from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund, a...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions A short documentary series created by Bloomberg ... between the arts and civic leaders. View the Upstate New York...

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Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America

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09/23/2016

... announced its renewed commitment to hunger relief through a new $8 million, four-year pledge to Feeding America to ... Stanley’s partnership with Feeding America launched in 2009, over 11,000...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... the International Space Station (ISS). The samples inside a petri dish contain fungi grown from samples collected ... goal is to find something beneficial to Earth and mankind in general. Some research...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015,...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... outcomes for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds. According to the report, "School Integration in Practice: Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap Recent advances in data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store locations by...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities

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10/21/2016

... Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $20 ... neighborhoods, and urban food deserts. Each is using a data-driven approach that will...

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Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

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11/01/2016

... as he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be .....

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

... than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed foundations in the United States believe foundations have the potential to make a significant difference in society. That’s the good (and perhaps...

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Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education

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12/14/2016

... might be exacerbating economic inequality, according to a new study by a University of Kansas professor. “Young adults from families in the top quarter of the wealth...

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SmartCEO Honors Weinberg Foundation President, Rachel Garbow Monroe, as CEO of the Year

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12/16/2016

... President and CEO, has been selected by SmartCEO, a regional business magazine and website, as its 2016 ... She becomes the 14th SmartCEO of the Year recipient in Baltimore. Each year, SmartCEO magazine’s...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... the conversation that actual workers have on social media, a new media analysis by Cision has found. The analysis found that while the media discusses growth in the independent workforce and...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

... Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn Forty people sit in a circle. Most are residents of Crown Heights, a dynamic, ... from thriving. Last,...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

... To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit Ten years ago, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy in...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

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01/06/2017

... has another reason not to roll back Obamacare too quickly: New research suggests that repealing two major provisions of ... and Medicaid expansion -- and that Congress won't put a replacement plan...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and you can ... it elsewhere. If everyone did that, there would be a lot of societal Band-Aids to go...

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Proteus Fund Serves as Fiscal Sponsor for LGBT Nonprofits and Initiatives

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01/26/2017

... dry up under the administration of President Donald Trump, a new fund backed by two national donor networks has launched ... Donors Network. The two fundraising networks, with offices in the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies A new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek ...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive The American ... recommendations of the Commission on Language Learning, a national effort established to...

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