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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

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05/17/2017

... governments fight financial crises is being supported by a group of esteemed business leaders and prominent ... initiative, YPFS has expanded its Advisory Board, bringing in some of the most respected experts...

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The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

... Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. The selected Scholars ... will...

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund In January, rumors swirled that the art collector and patron ... to reduce mass incarceration in the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Justice Reform

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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is Conducting CSR Survey

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06/14/2017

... College Center for Corporate Citizenship is conducting a Profile of the Professionals survey regarding professionals who work in corporate citizenship, which also referred to as CSR, CR, ... BCCCC is asking...

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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

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06/22/2017

... they share is technique and tactics," said Jarvis. He gave a PHIL Talk that not only illustrated how these bad actors ... but also how the mainstream media's failure to adapt to new means of...

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PhilTalks

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Unusual Times Lead to Unusual Grants from the Rockefeller Foundation

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06/28/2017

... it avoids ideological language and positions itself as a practical, problem-solving institution—one working to ... throughout the world." The foundation’s priorities in recent years have included building...

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‘Bro’ Adams Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

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07/11/2017

... Humanities, is joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow. Adams, who lives in Falmouth, will begin his new job Aug. 1. When he resigned as NEH chairman in...

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Arts

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

... Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality If a foundation’s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, what better place to start than with their own ... their home in...

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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars Following last month’s ... the United States—including nearly 700,000 kids in New York State—have...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

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08/29/2017

... fall, Ai Weiwei and the Public Art Fund will team up for a massive citywide art exhibition titled Good Fences Make ... of Ai’s largest projects to date, with pieces going up in major locations like the...

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The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists

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08/30/2017

The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists Two weeks before the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 300 white supremacists ... organizations ...

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Giving Back: 4 Ways Your Company Can Do Good

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08/31/2017

... particularly millennials, are looking for more than just a product from the brands they support. They also ... ways your company can do good while growing and reaching new customers. Offer local sponsorships...

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... have been happening for decades, but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular ... algorithms work, and the potential of...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources ... strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, a...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... shopping more convenient. Bodega has just wrapped up a 10-month pilot in several Bay Area locations. Co-founder and CEO Paul McDonald has now stated he wants to roll out 50 new Bodega...

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old In the United States, we love to group people into ... engagement.” In their work, Case and Achieve employ a mixed-methods approach...

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Trump Administration Makes ACA’s Health-Insurer Payments for September

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09/22/2017

... to cut off the payments, which total billions of dollars a year, as part of his party's broader bid to overturn or ... uncertainty surrounding the payments has unsettled many in the insurance industry,...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... Social Change The Ford Foundation today announced 25 new Art of Change fellowships that will support visionary artists and cultural leaders in creating powerful works of art that help advance freedom, .....

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