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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... Saved the Detroit Institute of Art It all started with Gerald Rosen, the judge who was mediating between the ... a jaw-dropping proposal: All they had to do was come up with more money than any group...

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Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

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09/15/2015

Analysis shows that if limits on premiums for older adults were relaxed, federal spending would rise.

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

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10/16/2015

... by three months more than children in a reading control group . Most notably, children of the most math-anxious ...

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Education

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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

Peg Tyre, director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation, wrote a deep examination on mathematics whizzes and reaching glory in math competitions. She is also the author of the book, "The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with Art in America , has launched a pilot writing fellowship ... often...

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Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind

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03/03/2016

Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind For a few weeks in early fall, Georges ... North Atlantic fishery off the coast of Cape Cod -- teems with billions of herring that take over the region...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Animal Welfare

Science

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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

With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender ... as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as strong and clear a sense of ... identity that is...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis

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09/07/2017

... had the highest overdose mortality rate in the nation, with 41.5 deaths per 100,000. “We were texting when he ... users—some of whom are profiting from it. Last month, a group of shareholders of one...

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

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10/02/2017

... of low-cost, passively invested index funds from Vanguard, with 70 percent invested in stocks and the rest in ... of the foundation averages. What that means is that as a group , U.S. foundations, which have a...

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

... Somewhere beneath Rockefeller Center, in a workroom with the bare fluorescent lights and tall shelves of a big ...

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

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11/29/2017

... the winning ideas won't be easy, but I know this group will help us ensure a successful competition," .....

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Community Development

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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

... $1,317 to $1,789) in a single year These findings dovetail with a December 2017 report by the United Hospital Fund , which documented a 35 percent drop in New York’s small- group enrollment, from 1.7 million...

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New York Health Foundation

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

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05/10/2018

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

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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

... $1.90 a day in rural sub-Saharan Africa and provides them with the tools and training to start sustainable, ...

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App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund

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06/12/2018

... smartphone app designed to improve care for people living with HIV has increased users’ consistency in doctor visits ... at both six and 12 months, and the percentage of people with “undetectable HIV viral...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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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

... program, will analyze these chemical interactions with the tools used for studying outdoor air pollution with the hope of learning what role they may play in human ... from more than 15 research groups from 13...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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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

... plan to pour at least $80 million into the 2018 election, with the bulk of that money going to support Democratic ... advisers to Mr. Bloomberg said. By siding so emphatically with one party, Mr. Bloomberg has...

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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 Task Force (HCTTF), with support from The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN ... HNHC patients are...

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Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death

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10/03/2018

... the risk of premature death by 20 percent, compared with drinking three times a week or less. The increased risk ...

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