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Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D. Resigns as President of Foundation for Child Development

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08/22/2013

The Board of the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) announced that Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D., has resigned as President of the Foundation. Dr. Phillips will be returning to her ... new early learning...

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Unbound Philanthropy Welcomes Elyse Lightman Samuels

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04/18/2014

... Jewish World Service. She has also spent extensive time working in Cambodia as a founding member and Trustee of the Harpswell Foundation, whose mission is to empower a new generation of women...

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

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Social Justice

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TCF Senior Fellow Barton Gellman Wins Third Pulitzer

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04/30/2014

... wins third Pulitzer for his Washington Post coverage of the National Security Agency's massive surveillance ... Post and The Guardian for their respective coverage of the National Security Agency’s...

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Uninsured Rate Drops From 20 Percent to 15 Percent Due To ACA

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07/10/2014

... From 20 Percent to 15 Percent Due To ACA In the wake of the Affordable Care Act’s first open enrollment period, significantly fewer working -age adults are uninsured than just before the sign-up ... were...

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Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as the Head of the Office of International Affairs

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09/16/2014

... Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as Head of the Office of International Affairs Penny Abeywardena, who currently serves as the Clinton Global Initiative Director of Girls &...

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International/Global Affairs

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Women & Girls

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How Institutions Take Risks

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10/12/2014

... As Adolf Hitler harassed, isolated, and murdered many of Europe's greatest scientists, philosophers, and thinkers, ... work to the heart-wrenching and perilous business of saving scholars who were seeking...

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Giving Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System

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11/26/2014

... Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System Those of us working to improve the health system sometimes joke that at ... Thanksgiving approaching, I am also thinking about what's working...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... October 2012. “There were the low-lying neighbourhoods of Staten Island exposed to sea rise, flooding and storm ... lives destroyed.” Rodin, who became president of US philanthropic organisation the...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

... Foundation (DDCF) today announced the 2015 class of Doris Duke Artists. Twenty remarkable performing artists ... multi-year funding as an investment in and celebration of their ongoing contributions to the...

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Long Island Community Foundation Supports Treatment for Military Veterans and Their Families

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05/19/2015

... Veterans and Their Families Given the stressful nature of the military and the traumatizing experiences of war, many veterans experience psychological distress that is complicated by substance use. Many...

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

... that LGBT Americans will one day be able to enjoy all of the possibilities that are truly equal to those of our fellow citizens, and that our neighbors will know, see ... us to this pivotal moment. We look...

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... electricity systems and get on the right side of the politics of development -- philanthropy just hasn't realized it yet. ... the board. Our investment is woeful -- only 2 percent of all...

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To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures

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08/10/2015

... rate in June, but it also holds the dubious distinction of having the most working -age adults who have lost six or more teeth at 23%. ... teeth and dentures with the elderly, nearly one in five working...

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Workforce Development

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation The Dyson Foundation has promoted Cecilia Stancell of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’s new Director of...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust) While Mayor Bill de Blasio works on the details of a 15-year, $2.6 billion supportive housing program to ... is rising among families,...

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The New York Community Trust

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... in January 2014. That tax, supporters claim, is working . A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico's soda .....

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

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08/22/2016

... Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history ... itself. For New Yorkers who have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in the...

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Housing and Homelessness

Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than ... about their retirement and even loneliness. On behalf of The Rockefeller...

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Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

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01/24/2017

... influences people's giving. Read through the letters of the Giving Pledge members, for example, and you'll see ... struck by how closely the apple falls to the tree in terms of social values. Again...

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