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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... The billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ... 19.6 million Class B shares to five charities. The bulk of the money, $2.2 billion, will go...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... is failing patients with complex medical needs, many of whom struggle to access the coordinated medical, ... brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Students? It’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the surest way to determine the values and ... engaged in for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-...

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... support Wikimedia community efforts to enable the addition of structured data to the more than thirty-five million ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Foundation for Child Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family

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02/06/2017

... Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family In new research funded by the ... created a new index that provides a more accurate picture of the economic health of...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature

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02/17/2017

... The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care,...

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy Communities grant program. The grants are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million program. "This funding...

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding Since President Lyndon Johnson and a ... Northern-educated playwright, produced a satirical story of a town that wakes up to...

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George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

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03/21/2017

George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are asking the state to raise ... for all...

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... a news release. Earning high returns isn’t just a matter of bragging rights — endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education , as with college and...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

... Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program The Schwartz ... the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... million for the Greene Scholarship Challenge fund, a first- of -its-kind matching scholarship fund designed to encourage ... to learn and practice essential legal skills as part of their clinical ...

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’s clear the Trump era will be cruel to ... cuts to the nation’s most effective health, nutrition, education , and disability programs,...

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Gender Justice

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care The report includes a fear of losing control and privacy, concerns about finances, and ... occupational...

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Aging

Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... the learning loss that often occurs when students are out of school for two months. It’s a serious problem. But ... after the State Legislature reauthorized mayoral control of the public school system, Mayor...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... Integration Plan for Lower East Side The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that ... segregation on a district-wide basis, and follows years of lobbying by parent advocates in...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

... with 500. The top three industries that added jobs were: education and health services, with 1,700; health care and ...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says More than 40 percent of the city’s middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boldest education initiative. His Renewal School program, which pledged hundreds of millions of...

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