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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

... research and training model, awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and co-directed by the Arts and ... research and to integrate digital work into a number of innovative undergraduate curricular...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability Initiatives

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07/29/2015

Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability ... Anisa Kamadoli Costa is no stranger to the inner workings of the luxury jewelry business — including notorious dark .....

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

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08/04/2015

... In addition to her extensive publishing track record of books on poverty, Alice O’Connor’s Ford credentials ... O’Connor puts it. She welcomes Walker’s appreciation of the structural dimensions of...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic ... Justice “Raising the minimum wage isn't just a matter of economics, it’s a matter of civil rights," Governor...

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United Way of New York City

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Economic Security

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... on track while you work step-by-step through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown ... scientists report evidence that a particular part of the brain is responsible for exactly that...

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Survey from Thomson Reuters Foundation and Rockefeller: Can You Have Children and a Career?

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10/19/2015

... Can You Have Children and a Career? Almost half of women in the G20 are confident that having children won't ... Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation found 47 percent of more than 9 500 women were...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... another language. That is exactly what happens to millions of Spanish-speaking workers and their families in the United ... and it’s costing them — and their employers — a lot of money. In 2013, 21 percent...

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The New York Community Trust

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

... Leaderosity , a website that builds on a decade’s worth of work to offer professional development for ambitious, ... young nonprofit staff members. Tim McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation,...

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project Today, the National League of Cities (NLC) is launching a new initiative in partnership ... and expand access to credit; and Increase...

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Economic Security

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds People May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan

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11/06/2015

... Shopping for health insurance can be a baffling maze of unfamiliar terms and puzzling acronyms — premiums, ... Consumers have to navigate four different levels of plans, determine what subsidies they’re...

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Arcus Foundation Establishes Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership

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12/04/2015

... Fellowship Program aims to build the leadership capacity of emerging and veteran social justice leaders that work and ...

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Social Justice

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

... State Health System Performance finds. The 2015 edition of the state scorecard—the first one in the series to reflect a full year of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance expansions—finds that the...

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Q & A with Anisa Kamadoli Costa, President of Tiffany & Co. Foundation, about Sustainability Initiatives and Goals

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01/04/2016

Q & A with Anisa Kamadoli Costa, President of Tiffany & Co. Foundation, about Sustainability Initiatives and Goals Anisa Kamadoli Costa, CSO of Tiffany & Co., provides some great insight into the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer Glioblastoma multiforme is a ... deadly cancer. A person diagnosed with this type of brain tumor typically survives 15 months, if given the .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?

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01/19/2016

... independent Global Policy Forum, which monitors the work of UN bodies and global policymaking. With assets of more than $360bn (£250bn), the world’s 27 largest ... give roughly $15bn annually to charitable...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Rockefeller Partnership to Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery

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01/25/2016

... initiative designed to accelerate the economic recovery of cities in the aftermath of catastrophic natural disasters. Announced at the World ... will support cities around the globe in the areas of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

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02/01/2016

... Philanthropies. In 2016, we have reached our 35th year of grantmaking, and also our last. In recent updates, ... grants that build on our three and a half decades of work to address global challenges such as...

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