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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... Sohn Cancer Research Alliance has announced the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young ... in Cancer Research. Established in 2013...

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

... Communities In a collaboration between the City of Philadelphia, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, the PeopleForBikes Foundation and the National Association of City...

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Ford Foundation Board Making Rare Detroit Visit

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06/15/2015

... bargain" reunion during the three-day visit, a gathering of top leaders in national and local philanthropy who ... Detroit's pensions funds and avert a bankruptcy fire sale of city-owned art. Ford...

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Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College

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03/22/2016

... they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed ... the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles, a decade ago, and it...

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Carnegie Supports New Study on What Keeps Parents Up at Night

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04/21/2016

... national data. The study "Parents 2016: Hearts and Minds of Public School Parents in an Uncertain World" which polled ... and UNCF, and with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration

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05/12/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration Since 2010, when the Milbank ... health integration (BHI) report, “Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in...

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Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile

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05/12/2016

... to existing instruments in order to boost ongoing studies of the evolution of the universe, from its earliest moments to today. The ... a collaboration among Princeton University, the University of...

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Tow Foundation, Columbia University Arts Announce Winners of Play Reading Series

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05/19/2016

Tow Foundation, Columbia University Arts Announce Winners of Play Reading Series Roundabout Theatre Company and Columbia University School of the Arts have announced the winners of ... Play...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Discovers Protein That Controls Strength of Body’s Circadian Rhythms

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05/27/2016

... Research Discovers Protein That Controls Strength of Body’s Circadian Rhythms At noon every day, levels of genes and proteins throughout your body are drastically ... they are at midnight. Disruptions to this...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2016 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, recognizing seven young ... human health. The selected Scholars will receive grants of up to $110,000 annually for a...

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at ... award approximately $83 million over five years in support of the first cohort...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

... vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits. While the news media is focusing on the latest...

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A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs

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09/22/2017

... for continuous monitoring helps PPPs determine what collaborative success looks like. Monitoring, analyzing, and ...

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Funded in Part By The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NPR Reports on Puerto Rico’s Financial Storm

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06/27/2018

... and its infrastructure last September. Since then, most of the focus has been on the effects of the Hurricane. Nonetheless, in some ways, the bigger story ... future is the island’s economic crisis. In part...

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The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

... Grant to UConn Foundation At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory ... said the consortium will focus on researching the causes of pain, as well as pain management...

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Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Announces New President

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07/01/2013

The Board of Trustees of The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund is pleased to announce the election of Andrew (Andy) Klingenstein as its President, effective ... to both the advancement...

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MetLife Foundation, Sesame Workshop Launch Financial Knowledge Program

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11/22/2013

... moderate-income families around the world. Awarded as part of the foundation’s five-year, $200 million commitment to ...

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17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks

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01/30/2014

The Educational Foundation of America and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation are among ... in their endowments and invest at least five percent of their assets in clean-energy companies, reported The Chronicle...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

... to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different sectors – much of my career was spent in the private sector, but I’ve also ... the same problems – poverty, disease, the environment...

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