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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

Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative The ... operations, so that enhanced engagement becomes course- of -business. As part of the...

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

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift from the ... Cancer to launch the largest study ever of pre-treatment and drug-resistant tumors. By comparing the genome sequence of...

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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

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries,...

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

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07/09/2015

... over the next two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative, which ... "Jersey City is a community we are especially to be a part of ...." Jersey...

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

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08/10/2015

What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond An experiment ... despite being hailed as a success by some. The concept of SIBs is for private investors to lend money to governments for...

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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.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color “There’s a myth out there that for girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said NoVo Foundation ... that role in 2014 after...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million

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09/29/2015

... $3.28 Million The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees has approved three grants totaling more than ... million to renew and expand work to ensure that the voices of older adults and aging-expert...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, ...

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W.T. Grant Foundation Launches Blog Series on Research Evidence and Federal Policy

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10/29/2015

... social programs. In addition to taking stock of these efforts, contributors will outline the key issues ... policymakers will have to tackle as they debate the future of evidence-based policy. For nearly two...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... Colonialism Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to ... problems themselves rather than acting as facilitators of change -- that is, seeking answers...

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

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11/03/2015

... Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End- of -Life Issues Dying in America, a multimedia exploration of death and dying by award-winning photographer and ... Carolyn Jones, launches today as a...

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

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11/05/2015

... die before their fifth birthday each year, the majority of whom are children born into poverty. In a recent ... an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the enteric and diarrheal diseases...

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Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds

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11/12/2015

Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds Leonard Glickman is the chief executive officer of FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, which manages ... countries. Glickman previously...

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Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

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02/17/2016

Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out- of -School-Time Programs The Wallace-commissioned Out- of -School-Time (OST) Cost Calculator is an online tool ... to help OST providers and others estimate the costs...

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Unemployment insurance (UI) is ... distress. But according to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... are highly familiar with the good works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Today, the ... in grants distributed to nonprofits annually. Millions of that funding have gone to dozens...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project

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04/15/2016

... nine sites across 10 neighborhoods with the culmination of the project expected to be on Oct. 4, when all of the sites will be turned on during National Night Out. The art will be the work of...

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Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care

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04/15/2016

... Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End- of -Life Care Nearly all doctors believe it’s important to ... The findings come as Medicare begins paying for end- of -life conversations and as many aging...

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Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders

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04/25/2016

Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders Darren Walker’s moves to steer the ... and inclusion won him a spot on Time magazine's 2016 list of the world’s most influential people. A brief...

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