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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 collaborated to create ... 20-year commitment from foundations, private companies and...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Report Calls for Reform in Light of Abuse of Girls in Juvenile System

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07/10/2015

Ms. Foundation for Women Report Calls for Reform in Light of Abuse of Girls in Juvenile System As many as 80 percent of the ...

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Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities

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08/11/2015

... Healthcare Disparities Geography is a clear determinant of health disparities for patients, as chronic conditions ... Garth Graham, MaryLynn Ostrowski and Alyse Sabina write in a Health Affairs blog post...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World GivePower Foundation—a ... expanding. Through a $500,000 donation from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, GivePower...

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

... Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box' This week, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice described his ... was automatically suspended. I couldn...

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Data on Women's Equality

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08/27/2015

... Equality Day, the national holiday commemorating passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Ms. ... for women released the results of a new poll on the state of...

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Philanthropy Must Move Fast on Climate Change, Robertson and MacArthur Leaders Say in Chronicle

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12/02/2015

... on Climate Change, Robertson and MacArthur Leaders Say in Chronicle The danger signs are all around us: record ... droughts, and wildfires that demonstrate the perils of a destabilized climate. Severe habitat...

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Weinberg Foundation Hires New Program Director

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12/11/2015

... The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has hired a new program director to ... The foundation distributed about $200 million to an array...

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Sloan Foundation Announces 2016 Research Fellowships

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02/25/2016

... Research Fellowships The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City has announced the selection of a hundred and twenty-six scientists and researchers as recipients of this year's Sloan...

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Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)

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03/18/2016

... strategies for reducing the stubbornly high number of children who die each year from abuse and neglect, a ... created by Congress reported Thursday after two years of sometimes divisive deliberations...

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

... to Florida Supreme Court A foundation is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a dispute about $24.6 million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert...

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NYS Health Foundation Report: Hospital Mergers Lead to Higher Prices in NY

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03/25/2016

... Foundation Report: Hospital Mergers Lead to Higher Prices in NY Hospital mergers in New York typically result in higher prices, with little ... new Manhattan Institute report, sponsored by...

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NYS Health Foundation Leads to Financially Sustainable Care Model For Resettled Refugees

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05/05/2016

... Care Model For Resettled Refugees Currently, 97 percent of refugees resettling in New York State are located upstate, particularly the greater Buffalo, ...

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Clark Foundation Brothers Feuded, But Also Made Two Towns Arts Destinations

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06/20/2016

... they'll be tracing footprints left by members of same influential family: the Clarks. A wealthy, weighty clan who came to prominence in the 19th century, the Clark family left a large and lasting imprint...

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Ford Program Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy

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07/25/2016

... on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy We are living in anxious, often frightening times. Earlier this month, the deaths of Philando Castille and Alton Sterling sparked a new round ... against the toxic...

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row In 1989, a 29-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer ... It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the ...

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Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience

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08/26/2016

... resource, with shifting and changing states and flows. In one of our more foolish endeavors, however, rather than embrace ... accepted, particularly by those directing investments in water...

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

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09/02/2016

... the United States. “There has been a real struggle in why there are so many kids with autism,” said lead author Sara Webb, UW Medicine researcher in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “Where does this .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Contributes Funds for Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing Activity Worldwide

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09/15/2016

... Oceana, SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the world free access to monitor and track the activities .....

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