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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding

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04/26/2017

... This is an area of philanthropy that consistently stuns in terms of amounts given and strategies pursued, hoisted up ... seekers feeling like they're stuck on the outside, peering in on an exclusive club...

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

... and delivery underscores the fact that public health in the U.S. still has much room for improvement. These disparities are apparent in communities where racial and ethnic minorities comprise ...

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The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare

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05/15/2017

... on Healthcare has big plans for transforming healthcare in America. It's looking to improve quality while lowering costs by bringing out the best in doctors, health systems, insurers, patients and...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Rey Ramsey as Independent Trustee

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05/15/2017

... an impact asset management firm focused on investments in sustainable affordable housing. He joins existing ... our passion for our mission and commitment to innovation in philanthropy.” Located in...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

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06/02/2017

... Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. ... succeeds Mr. Barry I. Schloss, who joined the Foundation in 2004 and most recently served as the...

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

Rita Allen SupportedPrize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News ... Combating fake news and bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project ... the...

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

... the odds that the students would pursue college tracks in school, according to Stanford scholars. The study, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found ... and...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award One in four people in the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the ... businesses globally to develop and deliver solutions— in...

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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

... rifles than shotguns. “The drugs we have now are not working for these brain disorders,” said Coba, senior ... not developed a new drug target for complex brain diseases in nearly 60 years. The protein map...

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Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress

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07/31/2017

... Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress Recently in Rio de Janeiro I had the chance to visit a ... through a book, hoping to enjoy a few hours of reading in front of that breathtaking landscape. Yet I...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership with The Fink Family Foundation and Blue Hill ... processors, designers, and retailers. They are working together to reconceive “waste”...

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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

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09/11/2017

... been welcomed by neighbors and members of the community. In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened ...

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Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

... The racial debate raged 367 miles away from Long Island in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday, Aug. 12, making national headlines and ending in deadly violence as a result of white nationalists, ... of all...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... And now the library has secured the final $55 million in private money needed to pay for that makeover, which will ... Niarchos Foundation and is the second largest single gift in its history, after the $100...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna In her 2015 TED Talk, “What Do We Do When Antibiotics ... uncle who died of a basic infection after a minor injury in a firehouse in 1938. Most people back then...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain— in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The ... 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories...

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Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan

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09/21/2017

... Blasio’s plan to create 100,000 “good-paying” jobs in the next ten years, discussing the challenges of growing ... The mayor’s “New York Works” plan, unveiled in June, envisions targeted city investments...

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Workforce Development

Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... for Pulling Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. ... world holds its ground, emerging bruised but resolute. But in two recent controversies,...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... a judge—suddenly found their world turned upside-down in March 2011, when they were forced to flee their home in Syria due to the violent civil war. Today, they live in a foreign land,...

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