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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people directly where they ... Challenge, a new $4.5 million initiative designed to use digital health innovations...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

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11/08/2012

Philanthropy New York is working intensively with Regional Associations throughout the affected area to coordinate and track philanthropic responses to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy...

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State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage

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02/05/2015

State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage Returned money for workers who failed to receive the proper minimum wage, overtime pay or fringe ... ever before – which means more...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

... by stories of amazing girls and women who are standing up to injustice and demanding a better future. Whether at home, ...

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

... decade now, the United States has been using armed drones to secretly kill suspected terrorists in Yemen. The public ... or whether civilians were among those killed. Now, working with the Open Society Justice...

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

... called "Fellows", were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field, and were ... "They underscore the importance of New...

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Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children National Dance Institute was ... and dance and music in particular, have a unique power to engage all children and motivate them toward...

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

... and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative The Citi Foundation ... Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will receive support to adopt leading practices in community...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

... a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug ... tumor cells. The grant will support a two-pronged approach to addressing cancer drug...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

... Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library ... archives and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA provides...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... today that JPMorgan Chase has invested $1 million dollars to provide skill-based job training for residents over the ... Chase. "Jersey City is a community we are especially to be a part of...."...

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... Bond An experiment using a Social Impact Bond (SIB) to reduce the rate at which juvenile offenders return to jail—so-called “recidivism”—at the troubled Rikers ... by some. The concept of SIBs is for private...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... fine. Here at NoVo, we recognize that there is a huge need to focus on support for girls of color. ” Historically, ... work in the Global South, which the foundation plans to continue, Shifman stressed......

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Gender Justice

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Research into what issues women face in the workplace finds equal pay, harassment, career opportunities,children, and work-life balance remain as concerns.

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting .....

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Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues

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11/03/2015

Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues Dying in America, a multimedia ... culminate in a feature length documentary that will seek to change the way Americans confront...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

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11/05/2015

In a recent seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the enteric and diarrheal diseases program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed the issues impacting maternal and child health.

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia The Atlantic Philanthropies, which will ... of its work on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study...

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