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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

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03/13/2014

The North Star Fund is the first community foundation to sign onto the Divest-Invest Philanthropy initiative's pledge to divest from fossil fuel investments.

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit policy group . Another 61 percent believed their plans were ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group , is making good on its promise to give away all of its ...

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... cancer. Oddly, this wasn’t obvious to one important group : philanthropists.... Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink ...

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

The fund is backed by Open Society Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, among others.

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

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12/17/2014

Ford, Carnegie and OSF among funders to assist immigrants eligible for temporary legal status.

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

Rockefeller Foundation partnered with U.N. Women and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... East Africa bearing the brunt of the Somalia-based terror group Al-Shabaab.... Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That ...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

New York Women's Foundation offers nine investment principles for supporting disaster relief and recovery among under-resourced women and families.

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The New York Women's Foundation

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

... to the New York Community Trust, which awarded the group a $150,000 grant. The grant money would be split ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund along with the Ford, Hewlett, Kresge, Packard, and Robert Wood Johnson foundations awarded surprise $1.1-million unsolicited grants to two organizations that help grantmakers -- the Center for Effective Philanthropy and...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

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10/16/2015

... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

... decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational ...

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

Carol Levine, director of United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, speaks on the stress helping with healthcare puts on caregivers, and advises possible solutions.

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... Kimmel, a philanthropist and founder of Jones Apparel Group . The institute, to be housed at the Sidney Kimmel ...

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