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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

... free from the threat of nuclear weapons.” The fund is in turn financed by a small number of foundations, including ...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s...

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

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12/17/2014

... president’s executive action on immigration announced in November. All together, an estimated 5 million ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

... Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films What happens when specific groups of people are ... or exclusion. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, U.N. Women and The Rockefeller...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure In a seven-page letter to the SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ... oil demand...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... will continue to finance projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which ... is a key cause of inequality and social injustices in Africa. The absence of a proper...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

... devastate communities and leave their deepest wounds in already unstable low-income neighborhoods. Physical ...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of ... thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to live in more affordable apartments. The Greater...

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The New York Community Trust

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one more thing in common, something that many of their peers will no doubt ...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

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10/16/2015

... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational concern expressed by boards and ...

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Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston

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11/24/2015

... Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for over eight years. In light of the shift in the company’s portfolio and relocation of most ...

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

... Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, explained in a commentary in the same issue. They may feel uncomfortable or too ...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and other philanthropists announced $125 million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new...

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Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

... and Bandages Today, nurses play multidimensional roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly define, limit, or categorize. Understanding ... strong and are the...

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Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows

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04/08/2016

... promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants. One hundred and ... an adjunct or part-time position at a university. As in past years, the Leon Levy...

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a non-profit ... fellowships to artists around the country specializing in nine fields. Alberto Ibargüen,...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

... James Simons and his wife, Marilyn, is expanding in the Flatiron District. The philanthropic organization has ... people familiar with the deal. The building is owned by a group of investors led by principals...

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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

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05/24/2016

... Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management Floods hit upwards of 250 ... have involved flooding. To encourage new ideas and actions in flood risk management, Zurich Insurance...

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