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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

... groups that breed hate and violence. And now the terrorism in Barcelona and Finland. I’ll try to move back to grace ... currents we are pushing against are only getting stronger. In the midst of feeling weary...

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... not provocative to state the importance of innovation in creating business value from your sustainability efforts. ... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness "Social entrepreneurship ... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... show appearances. But the main goal of their two days in Vermont did not involve knives or whisks, split-second ... and wrestling with some of the thorniest policy issues in the food system. The diverse...

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Food Systems

The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have gotten more aggressive about ... WNYC and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom focused on guns in America, took a look at the...

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Justice Reform

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ... research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the...

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As Deaths Mount, Scrutiny of NYPD Response to ‘Emotionally Disturbed Persons’

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09/27/2017

... members called for clarity on recent interactions ending in lethal force and stressed their support for the proposed mayoral working group to assess the city’s overall response to individuals...

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Justice Reform

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Rising Rate of Uninsured People

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05/02/2018

... The Commonwealth Fund on Tuesday released a survey of working -age Americans that found that 15.5 percent were ... and March 2018. That’s up from 12.7 percent of that group in 2016. Uninsured...

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Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

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03/25/2021

... Feminist Fund started as a kitchen-table conversation in 2013 that co-founder Tynesha McHarris describes as part ... each other,” McHarris says. There is also no comparable group looking at connecting this...

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Jeffrey D. Selberg Joins Peter G. Peterson Foundation to Lead Health Care Initiatives

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01/15/2014

... of initiatives and grants aimed at fostering improvements in the U.S. health care system, which Mr. Selberg will shape ... Improvement (IHI), has more than 35 years of experience in health care leadership...

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Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis

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08/02/2017

... Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis Inside a double-wide trailer on the warm springs ... grade; he’s certified to teach high-school continuing education and agricultural science...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announced Roz Lee As The New Vice President of Strategy and Programs To Its Staff

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01/24/2018

... someone who has dedicated her life to advancing justice in all areas of our society, we are incredibly fortunate to ... of Strategy and Programs Roz Lee has dedicated her career to advancing racial, gender,...

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McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Launches at the Aspen Institute

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07/10/2018

... critical global problems. From building the college-to- career pipeline in state universities across the US, to deepening economic ... next generation of Haitian teachers who are transforming education...

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John P. & Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation

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Eight Cities Receive Grants To Reduce Number of Uninsured Children and Families

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07/14/2014

... that seeks to enroll more children and families in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. ... Pa. Providence, R.I. Savannah, Ga. NLC's Institute for Youth , Education...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... mania, as if tests were the key to success.The nation’s education system has become an SAT rat race in which youth are judged on where they fall on the bell curve of test ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Awards Three Year Grant to Cornell University to Study Opioid Use in Rural Upstate New York

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04/11/2018

... Three Year Grant to Cornell University to Study Opioid Use in Rural Upstate New York The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins ... that...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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New Study Commissioned By Staten Island Foundation Reveals Disparity on North Shore

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09/18/2018

... Shore The North Shore of Staten Island faces disparities in housing, income, education and access to essential services when compared to ... with the help of 137 service providers, caregivers, and ...

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McNulty Foundation & Aspen Institute Announce the 2018 McNulty Prize Winner, Mehrdad Baghai and High Resolves

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11/01/2018

... students against hatred and galvanize them to take action in their communities. Co-founded with his wife Roya, High ... Resolves is bringing immersive, experiential citizenship education to thousands of...

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