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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

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03/10/2014

... to grow in influence and size when it transitioned from the private Independence Community Foundation into a full-fledged charity in 2009. The feeling was that as ... as president last September... Turning...

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The Wall Street Journal

A Nonprofit Lender Revives the Hopes of Subprime Borrowers

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02/25/2014

... Corporation of America has received $10 billion in funding from Bank of America to make mortgage loans on its own terms ...

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

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03/15/2014

... leading role in a history of scientific glories, from putting a man on the moon to creating the Internet. The ...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

... social value. The foundation also announced an investment from the Fund to support the growth of regional, sustainable, ...

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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

... of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to ...

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... be constructed high enough to block major storm surges from flooding the Financial District and also generate enough ...

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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

... and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from Ohio, where the biggest outbreak is ongoing – and ...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served on the board of Rockefeller ...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... control the movement and exchange of energy and nutrients, from the surface of the water to the deep sea.... Simons ...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus International, a Canadian outsourcing firm, and ...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

... Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, ...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... to require buffer zones to keep protesters at a distance from abortion clinics.... On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation ...

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Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

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07/17/2014

... with CASA of Maryland--recipients of a $3 million grant from Carnegie--will accept 100 students at each of the ...

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

... net worth for the typical household declined by 36 percent from $87,992 to $56,335. The study also found that the net ...

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Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?

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09/09/2014

... it turns out, is suggestive, but not definitive. From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans ...

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Primary Care Doctors on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out

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10/20/2014

... workload and punishing schedule, have it rough. A study from the Annals of Internal medicine — entitled “Burnout ...

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MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa

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11/07/2014

... storage facilities for their crops to help uplift them from poverty,” said Dr Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA. ...

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Foundation to Move Funds to Detroit Pensions

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11/12/2014

... in private dollars in the "grand bargain" make its way into the city's public pension system? That's the charge ... foundations for the "grand bargain" and disperse the money into...