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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... underserved communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people ...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

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11/08/2012

Philanthropy New York is working intensively with Regional Associations throughout the ... Philanthropy New York sends thanks to all of our members for your good wishes and concern. All of us and our families are...

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State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage

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02/05/2015

State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage Returned money for workers who failed to receive the proper minimum wage, ... ever before – which means more money stays with the...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

NoVo Uses International Women's Day to address gender inequality and sexual violence worldwide.

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

... Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the United States has been using ... or whether civilians were among those killed. Now, working with the Open Society Justice...

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for...

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Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

The foundation has announced a $1.5 million grant to the National Dance Institute.

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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

The selected cities are Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle.

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

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05/26/2015

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

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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

The Alfred P. Sloan and James L. Knight Foundations have announced a $3.4 million investment in the initiative.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... launched earlier this year as a capacity-building hub for local, emerging non profits. Through the Incubator ... were selected to take advantage of one year of free co- working space in BCF’s new headquarters...

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

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08/10/2015

... hailed as a success by some. The concept of SIBs is for private investors to lend money to governments for the funding of programs that, if successfully delivered, ...

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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

... Young Women of Color “There’s a myth out there that for girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said ... 2014 after six years as NoVo’s Director of Initiatives for Girls and Women. “But everything is...

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes ... that a positive internal culture is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace What are the top five ... Ipsos MORI, revealed that there are five major issues for women in the workplace. . . Rockefeller Foundation Finds...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting as facilitators of change.

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

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11/03/2015

... care. Supported by a grant from the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, the website is the first ...

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

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11/05/2015

In a recent seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the enteric and diarrheal diseases program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed the issues impacting maternal and child health.

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

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11/12/2015

... countries. Glickman previously had 20 years experience working on Capitol Hill, serving as the top career official ...

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