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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... mediating between the city and its creditors. He called in an all-star squad of foundation presidents—the newly ... Kellogg Foundation's La June Montgomery Tabron—and made a jaw-dropping proposal: All...

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Ford Foundation

Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... across multiple research efforts. IBD Plexus will include a biobank; registries to capture clinical, patient-reported, ... services. "We have seen breakthrough discoveries in IBD, but progress toward...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes

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07/30/2015

Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes When Jim Palmer and his wife, Susan, married in ... the Baseball Hall of Fame. But the maid of honor was not a relative or friend of...

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Morgan Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C.

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07/30/2015

... Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C. A new development breaking ground today in the nation's capital .....

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Morgan Stanley [Corporate]

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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

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08/04/2015

... Career Services for Low-Income Individuals As part of a vigorous new effort to help jobless Americans upgrade their reading ... people whose skills deficit has kept them trapped in poverty...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Capital One Foundation

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NY Charities Bureau Launches Searchable Database of Non-Profit Dissolutions Approved by Attorney General

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08/07/2015

... Approved by Attorney General As you are aware, New York’s Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 made ... General determines that court approval is warranted. In order to provide easy access to the Attorney...

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Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

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08/17/2015

... Effects of Impact Investing Let's say that you budget a certain amount of money to give to charity every year, ... contribute to a social or environmental cause. This is not new to...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students A new study of more than 500 Black and Latino college students ... confirmed that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Economic Security

Education

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Playwright, Novelist and Songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank

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10/15/2015

... and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank ( New York, NY) – The Gish Prize Trust announced that ... and paved the way for the next generation. Established in 1994 through the will of legendary stage and...

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BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

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10/19/2015

... Community Transformation Philanthropy is trending in a new direction and women are leading the way. The newest ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

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10/20/2015

... – and it is one of our great opportunities to make a difference. Traffic crashes are the 9th leading cause of death in the world and are the number one cause of death for people ... road deaths. Last year, we...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

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10/20/2015

... Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block In America today, a person’s ability to lead a long, healthy life is so ... how long the average American lived in...

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... Schoolyard Initiative PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Michael A . Nutter, Deputy Mayor/Department of Parks and Recreation ... partnership and celebrated the latest accomplishment in the initiative, the pending completion...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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MetLife

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation Join Pew in the Protection of Vast Swaths of Ocean

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10/30/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation Join Pew in the Protection of Vast Swaths of Ocean We've been writing a lot over the past year about the new money and energy pouring...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Duke & Mellon Foundations Sponsor Provocative Dance Work on the Legacy of Confederate Symbolism

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11/19/2015

... Directors of Wideman/Davis Dance and Assistant Professors in the University of South Carolina Dance Program, Ruptured Silence is a new media and dance performance that examines contemporary...

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Arabella Launches Special Consulting Practice on Food Philanthropy

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12/04/2015

... Philanthropic consultants Arabella Advisors is launching a new practice area, titled "Good Food." According to an ... "After 10 years of working to build Arabella into a...

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Food Systems

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... Foundation Supported Research Reveals The amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain's temporal ... behaviors generally, and specifically with fear. But new research from Michael Platt, the...

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Science

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Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible

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12/17/2015

... Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible Michael A . Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson ... plus the additional interest required to finance that new debt. Over the next two decades,...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness) A team of University of Iowa and Columbia University Medical ... have corrected a blindness-causing gene mutation in stem cells derived...

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