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Pfizer Foundation Supports Vaccine Coverage in Africa to Reduce Child Mortality Rate

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09/19/2014

... Committee. The grants will focus on building the capacity of health care systems within the five countries to ensure ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Leads Charge for Creation of a Nonprofit Infrastructure Fund in Repsonse to State Budget Allocations

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04/22/2015

UJA-Federation of New York Leads Charge for Creation of a Nonprofit Infrastructure Fund in Repsonse to State ... nonprofits had seen inflation reduce the purchasing power of...

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Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding

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08/27/2015

... in Funding The Interactive Autism Network, a project of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, is now partnered with the ... a shared vision to grow, support and engage communities of individuals with autism spectrum...

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Ford Foundation Head in India Moves On, Hints at Discord with Government

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09/08/2015

... Moves On, Hints at Discord with Government The head of the Indian operations of the U.S.-based Ford Foundation, one of the world's largest ... charities. Since Modi's right-wing...

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New York State Health Foundation Sponsors Report on All-Payer Database & Consumer Transparency

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09/17/2015

... Council, examines the issues related to the development of regulations and policies for an all-payer database (APD) ... to preserve an expansive vision for the APD and the extent of its powers. More than four...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

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09/23/2015

... and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts Some of the world’s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term target on Wednesday of powering their operations entirely with renewable energy, the...

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Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience

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10/22/2015

... Conscience "Today’s announcement from the Department of Labor to allow pension funds to consider the full-range of risks that affect investment decisions – including ... important step toward realizing...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change

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12/09/2015

... Change In Paris, President Barack Obama and the leaders of 19 other countries made energy technology innovation the central priority of international efforts to address climate change. “The ... dominant idea...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than “reshaping the world” — and the gathering of global power players still lends...

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Doris Duke Foundation Supports New Website Focusing on Refugees

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03/08/2016

... on Refugees Last September, heartbreaking images of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach ... global refugee crisis. But it's a big world with a lot of...

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... The labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home-care workers. Councilman Andrew Cohen, D-Bronx, ... with employers. The bill would create a Division of Paid Care under the recently-established...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10 million to Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. to expand renewable energy in Africa. The investment was part of...

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK ... (SPARK) is an online scientific study and community of individuals with autism and their families. Launched just ... over 49,500 people from...

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... regulatory and governance strategies for the peaceful use of nuclear power . The project articulates, distills, and promotes best ... and proliferation concerns associated with the spread of...

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

... exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can be deposed — and is ... employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on ... science project by scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,...

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