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Rockefeller Foundation Picks Rajiv J. Shah, a Trustee, as President

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01/05/2017

... Rockefeller Foundation , was asked about six months ago to join the committee that would select the foundation’s ... for International Development, ultimately said he wanted to be considered for the post. He...

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Supported by Doris Duke, The New England Foundation for the Arts Announces Program Design Changes

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01/09/2017

... for the Arts announced a series of program design changes to the National Dance Project. These design changes are ... (NDP) will increase the number of Production Grants to choreographers and dance companies;...

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Can Theology Move the Needle on Environmental Issues? Henry Luce Foundation Thinks So

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01/18/2017

... topic. Lo and behold, the foundation just gave $425,000 to the Methodist Theological School in Ohio for a seminary ... as a moral imperative, and the goal of the initiative is to establish best practices and...

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Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact

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03/24/2017

Podcast: The Surdna Foundation Pivots to Mark 100 Years of Impact In 1917, businessman John Andrus decided to give away half his self-made fortune, built in part on developing the peptonoid elixir that was the...

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PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

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04/18/2017

PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem One of the PIMCO Foundation’s ... United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and ... our approach...

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Supported by Bloomberg, New York Stem Cell Foundation Opens New Research Institute and Headquarters in Manhattan

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04/20/2017

... the largest laboratories in the world devoted exclusively to stem cell research. The new facility, which also contains ... an independent, non-profit organization founded in 2005 to support cutting-edge stem...

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Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

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04/20/2017

... and Nari Kye began developing the documentary, they wanted to reach as wide of an audience as possible, they said. A ... Zero Point Zero and The Rockefeller Foundation, we wanted to reach as many of people as...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"

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05/31/2017

... Ethic" When Chuck Feeney decided over three decades ago to transfer virtually all his personal fortune to what would become The Atlantic Philanthropies, he said he ... that individuals of great means...

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IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy IBM is channeling ... with postdoctoral academic fellows and nonprofits to take on societal issues through data. With...

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Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma

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06/09/2017

... Trauma Casey Family Programs partners with think tanks to understand health outcomes that children and families ... life have become well established and the focus of efforts to change policy and practice. In...

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Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

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06/14/2017

... passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA, H.R. 1628) to partially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ... Medicaid expansion and premium tax credits—could lead to 2.6 million jobs lost and lower gross...

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The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health

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07/28/2017

... have been lengthy overdue. Yet even because the ACA sought to increase women’s healthcare, some states discovered ... Republican-controlled Texas, for instance, managed to shut women’s health clinics and...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... Conversations: Criminal Justice, Yesterday and Today” to be held in October. The Westchester Community Foundation ... issues of incarceration, reform, rehabilitation and return to prison. The Sing Sing Prison...

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Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes

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08/18/2017

... from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support scientific collaborations to fight type 1 diabetes. The HIRN is a research ... understand the progression of type 1 diabetes (T1D) and...

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How to Build a Strong Local Food System

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08/29/2017

How to Build a Strong Local Food System It goes beyond farmers' ... was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck vegetables...

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Transgender Ban Frozen as Mattis Moves Forward With New Review Of Options

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08/30/2017

... saying that he will first establish a panel of experts to provide advice and recommendations on how to carry out Trump’s directive. The Pentagon confirmed the ... statement attributed to...

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USAID Announces Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia

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08/31/2017

... Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia USAID Administrator Mark Green met today with ... Green noted the Government of Ethiopia's robust response to last year's drought-...

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Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

The city’s medical examiner has been a pioneer in analyzing complex DNA samples. But two methods were recently discontinued, raising questions about thousands of cases.

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

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09/05/2017

China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change Chinese President Xi Jinping on ... combating climate change, delivering an implicit rebuke to his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Xi didn’t refer...

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