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Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women ... or seeking to ban transgender people from enlisting in the military, this administration has made attacking...

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Gender Justice

Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

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09/27/2017

... 100&Change competition began as an experiment in openness, in response to criticisms that the philanthropic sector is ... problems require different approaches.) We see the value in a...

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... for Pulling Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. ... world holds its ground, emerging bruised but resolute. But in two recent controversies,...

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Arts

Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... that mix, for both the political and philanthropic class. In its purest form, the idea is to provide a long-term ... Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and in recent decades, several...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil sector here. He has an apartment...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

The New Bedtime Story Is a Podcast

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10/03/2017

... even better than TV. Since the NPR podcast for kids “Wow in the World” debuted in May, he’s listened to every episode three times. ... under a quarter of Americans have listened to a podcast in...

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... for 1.8 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households in America. The Common Cents approach to designing financial ... partnered with Common Cents Lab because they are a leader in this field. For the past...

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Economic Security

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... Agency to resume cleanup efforts of radioactive locations in Lewiston and Niagara Falls, warning they still pose a ... cost of the cleanups to be $3 million and said they were in various stages of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-...

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Workforce Development

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising ... 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a political saga set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage ... employees, $175,000 for cleanup...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

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10/10/2017

... centers program. This special funding authority expired in 2015. As part of the funding extension for the ... health center statistics come as a shock. Beginning in 1965, a handful of health centers, launched...

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Health

The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

After Superstorm Sandy, Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation — launched a project for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with...

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JPMorgan Chase Puts Funding Towards New York Workforce Development

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10/31/2017

... bucks — more than $500,000 — on workforce development in New York City. JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy, the ... on two new programs targeting workers and small businesses in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Global...

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

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11/17/2017

... Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for ... announced today that it will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to...

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... and CEO Teresa C. Younger released the following statement in response to the Alabama Special Election: “We are proud ... is no room for sexual assault, pedophilia, and Roy Moore in the halls of Congress and...

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Gender Justice

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Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

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12/15/2017

... Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. ... San Diego, received the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in mathematics. The award notes their “...

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Education

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

Websites profiling the comparative performance of healthcare providers often fail to deliver information that consumers actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital Fund (UHF).

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