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Arabella Advisors Noted in NPR Report: Solutions that Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste

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03/16/2016

... By now, you probably know that Americans waste a lot of food. Each year, an estimated 133 billion pounds of food that farmers grow never makes it to our plates. That's enough to fill 44 skyscrapers. And...

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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

... bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Pro-life advocates rally under the dome of the US Capitol. When we think of social movements, these are...

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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... space that presents a distinct challenge to the hundreds of thousands of people nationwide trying to live authentically in their ... Rights Center, a Washington-based non-profit advocacy group...

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Gender Justice

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

... Street, where she helps oversee the nonprofit group ’s pro-democracy programs in Eurasia. The Foundations are the philanthropic creation of George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire, who is a ... about to review...

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With Support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Opera Philadelphia Appoints Rene Orth as Composer-in-Residence

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06/17/2016

... In collaboration with New York’s Music-Theatre Group , Opera Philadelphia is proud to announce that Rene Orth ... chosen for the three-season position from a national field of applicants, and now has the...

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Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs

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07/29/2016

... Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs A coalition of five national health foundations has announced the launch of a collaboration aimed at transforming care delivery for ... greatest need. In an article...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... to get serious about collaboration to meet the demands of increasingly picky readers? There have been several ... The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’s BH Media Group ) that serves the demanding news...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, .....

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With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

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10/21/2016

... the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics Many political commentators ... on racial resentment obscures another important aspect of racial thinking. In a study...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism It is a truism that America has become ... are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course, but certainly better than any...

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

... climate science, is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a conspiracy against it. Yes, that ... Rockefeller family. The company, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the...

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City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

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12/01/2016

... Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation The City of Paynesville, outside Monrovia, has been admitted to the group of 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) pioneered by the Rockefeller ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... to campuses with high graduation rates by the year 2025. A group of 30 colleges and universities have signed on to the ...

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... Species Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said. Biren Patel, an...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Promotes 'Changing Faces of Immigration' Video Series

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03/24/2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York Promotes 'Changing Faces of Immigration' Video Series The face of immigration is ... wave of newcomers to the United States. The...

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Supported by JPB Foundation, Harvard Study Finds Illinois Soda Tax Could Cut Health Costs, Raise $561 Million in Revenue Annually

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04/26/2017

... new study released Tuesday by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Such a tax would likely would face ...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... Women The Army has sought to play down the significance of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United...

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Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates ... reports. This marks his 12th annual donation to the group of charities...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Telehealth Private Payer Laws

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08/23/2017

... policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from that of the provider—as a way of expanding patient access to...

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