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Change Captial Fund Launches Initiative to Support Community Development

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06/02/2014

... Groups Tackling Poverty [Altman Foundation; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; Brooklyn Community Foundation; ... New York Foundation; Scherman Foundation; and United Way of New York City.] CCF is funding five New...

Mark Abrahams Joins FJC as Chief Financial and Investment Officer

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08/19/2014

Mark Abrahams Joins FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds as Chief Financial and Investment ... Funds. He brings more than 20 years of experience in leading finance and accounting departments...

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase ... has poured nearly $80 million into research and advocacy in support of marijuana legalization and other...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art It all started with Gerald Rosen, the judge who was ... mediating between the city and its creditors. He called in an all-star squad of...

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Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

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09/15/2015

Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults The Affordable Care ... accessible and affordable to all individuals, regardless of age, gender, or health status. Under the ACA, people age...

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

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10/16/2015

... Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science The Overdeck Family Foundation ... supported research appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of Science. The study from...

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Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind

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03/03/2016

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

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New Board President Selected to Lead the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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07/11/2016

... Guttman Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Butler Plum as its new Board President. Susan ... and the Harvard Law School Venture Fund Advisory Group . In 2015, Ms...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops Color in the plant kingdom is not merely a joy to the eye. Colored ... A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of...

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

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10/02/2017

... More Grant Makers May Be On the Way For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its $12.1 billion endowment , saying it generated a return ... of...

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

... Path to Philanthropy Somewhere beneath Rockefeller Center, in a workroom with the bare fluorescent lights and tall shelves of a big discount warehouse, auction-house employees are ... tureens, duck decoys,...

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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

... Poverty and to Protect the Endangered Bonobo Population In the Democratic Republic of the Congo Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife ... Bonobo population in the biodiverse Lomako...

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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

... Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout ... fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of...

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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 ... manage care programs that improve the health outcomes of high-need, high-cost (HNHC)...

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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

... New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death Drinking a daily glass of wine for health reasons may not be so healthy after all, ... a new study from Washington University School of...

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Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York

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02/13/2019

Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York Next month, the Ford Foundation Center for Social ... justice movements. We’re thrilled to open the doors of this special space, a forum for...

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MAC And Benefit Announce Support For Planned Parenthood

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03/12/2019

... partnership between our competing beauty brands, but in fact a welcome coincidence,” says John Demsey, Chairman, The MAC AIDS FUND & Executive Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies. “The ... brands’...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

... Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird collisions in Chicago and Cleveland suggests that birds disoriented by ...

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Leon Levy Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund, John A. Hartford Foundation, Commonwealth Fund Support Study That Reveals How ACOs Use Home Visits to Improve Care and Reduce Hospital Use

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06/21/2019

... Use A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one key ... while aiming to reduce hospital use. The study was part of a...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2019 Scholars

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07/01/2019

... The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2019 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars , celebrating ten young leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional ... program’s 43-year history. “...

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