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Mark Abrahams Joins FJC as Chief Financial and Investment Officer

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08/19/2014

... Senior Vice President and CFO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has been ... managing and analyzing financial data at Credit Suisse Group . Abrahams currently serves as a...

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition The story starts with financier and ... rollbacks of drug law, including ending criminal sentences for non-violent drug crimes. In a recent...

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NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial

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02/04/2015

... The pattern is striking. Men who are eventually arrested for violent acts often began with attacks against their ... out the bombing of the Boston Marathon, he was arrested for beating his girlfriend. When Man...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... All they had to do was come up with more money than any group of foundations ever had. At first the chiefs balked. ... request, "Foundations fund the future. They don't pay for the mistakes of the...

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Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

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09/15/2015

Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires ... more than three times as much as 21- to 24-year-olds for the same plan (this is known as 3-to-1 “...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... Math, which delivers quick, engaging math story problems for parents and children to solve together. Bedtime Math was ... by three months more than children in a reading control group . Most notably, children...

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Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students

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02/12/2016

... Stoner, like his teammates, had endured a grueling regime for more than a year—practicing tricky problems over ... late into the evening after he completed the homework for his college-level math classes...

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

In one of the first examinations of early gender development among transgender preschoolers, a new study has found that these children were just as likely as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... the highly nutritious red-violet and yellow pigments known for their antioxidant properties and commonly used as food ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Union Dues Case

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09/29/2017

ALBANY — Unions including the New York State United Teachers and the AFL-CIO reacted angrily Thursday to news that the U.S. Supreme Court will revisit a case that could decide whether public sector labor groups can collect fees from workers they...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

... Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way For the first time in several years, the Ford ... than 5,700 foundations that have filed their tax returns for 2016 was 7.24, according to Foundation...

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

... studio has been set up, too, the better to shoot close-ups for the catalogs that will be issued before everything is ... some auction experts are predicting. The previous record for an auction was set when the...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce The Selection Committee For 2017 U.S. Mayors Challenge

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11/29/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce The Selection Committee For 2017 U.S. Mayors Challenge Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the selection committee for the 2017 U.S. Mayors Challenge, a nationwide...

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New York State Health Foundation Report Finds NY State Premiums Are Among the Highest in the Country

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04/02/2018

... fifth highest at $6,614. From 2008 through 2016, premiums for employer-sponsored plans increased at more than double ... , which documented a 35 percent drop in New York’s small- group enrollment, from 1.7...

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ASPCA Opens Permanent, State-of-the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center

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05/10/2018

... were successfully treated. These dogs were made available for adoption with rescue groups and shelters, including the ...

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Arcus Foundation Funds a New Partnership to Reduce Poverty and to Protect the Endangered Bonobo Population In the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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05/21/2018

... poverty and conflict that fuel the hunting of wild animals for food. The African Wildlife Foundation is the leading ... completed randomized controlled trial by Innovations for Poverty Action include increases...

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

... analyze these chemical interactions with the tools used for studying outdoor air pollution with the hope of learning ... House is a premanufactured home that has been retrofitted for experimentation,” says...

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Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats

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06/25/2018

... Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire ... Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats ...

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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, A New Contracting Tool Launched to Help Health Care Organizations Manage High-Need

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07/11/2018

... Care Organizations Manage High-Need The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the Health Care Transformation ... the industry’s move to value, studied best practices for high-need, high-cost populations...

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