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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation has donated about $200 million to drug reforms since 1994, double what ... It’s now a philanthropic powerhouse that has given about $11 billion towards causes...

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Open Society Foundations

Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... nonprofit organizations are seeking to get them thinking about how to channel their money and other assets into ... the spot, such as at a charitable event or when they learn about emergency appeals for aid...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo made it clear you were about to see a Very Important Person. The procession began ... a glimpse of the soaring greenhouse atrium, a volume of about 1.6 million cubic feet. . . A...

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values, ... said 3,000 homes were sold in Detroit in 2015, and only about 500 involved mortgages...

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Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... labeled “how to do” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental sets of assumptions related to the ... if needed, revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an...

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Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

... culture as a strategy to advance policy. Full information about this Request for Proposals is available here . ... to share this Request for Proposals with others. Questions about the proposal process should...

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The New York Community Trust

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign adversaries than they ... Every year, the Building Bridges program awards about $1 million to $3 million to...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

... a pretty Christian leaning, including a Carson Wentz tweet about God. Ramadan is actually one of the first things on ... from Furrukh, a Muslim member of the Philabundance board, about making sure that the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Questions about how to handle nuclear waste have long eluded consensus ... nuclear waste? Is it possible to change the narrative about nuclear waste from a burden to a...

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Environment and Climate Change

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

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08/10/2017

... Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines Much has been written about big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders ... critical business insights faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit ... when the budget starts imploding. The unfortunate thing about this research is that...

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Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds

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09/12/2017

... spending on biomedical research — and have bragged about it. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a ... increase for the agency, amounting to an increase of about 20 percent over three years. . ...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... the past century or two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us; today, we number more than 7 billion. ... entire coastlines and built vast cities. We appropriate about half the planet’s...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... men and women and asking them to complete questionnaires about their current mood. They then were given 25 Swiss francs ( about $25) once a week for the next month. Half of the 50 ...

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Amid Global Crises, UNGA Will Show Development Community Rising To The Challenges

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09/18/2017

... Development Goals. I asked her what this UNGA would be about . She was characteristically blunt. “We are on a path ... of the U.N., and they must never forget that. Actions are about collective responsibility,...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

... Bridget G. Brennan, decided to follow up on a tip — not about a drug crime but about a potential academic collaboration. The approach ...

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Health

Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing

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10/02/2017

... in New York City for 25 years, Harding formed a theory about what triggered the killing as soon as an image of ... said. “He was bullied.’” Details are still emerging about what led Cedeno to allegedly draw a...

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