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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

... the real, micro-level needs of communities. What’s more, people rarely get to choose the projects and programs that ... marginalization and inequality for the rural poor. Some people have rightly attributed...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant ... for foundations: a prize competition. The Empowering People Award, first given in 2012,...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... are the three most generous donors among the 10 richest people in America, according to new analysis by The Chronicle ... Pledge, an effort to encourage the world’s richest people to contribute most of their...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.

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09/21/2017

... how markets should be used to distribute coverage, whether people who didn’t buy coverage should be penalized. They had to build a computer system to help people check their eligibility and understand their...

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

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09/22/2017

... investment of US$100 million to connect 500,000 young people around the world, ages 16-24, to training and jobs ... a US$50 millioneffort that helped more than 100,000 young people across ten cities become...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Citi Foundation

Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

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09/22/2017

... administration says many of the organizations that help people enroll in health plans on the federal insurance ... to qualify for premium tax credits that are available for people with incomes up to 400...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... cause of death worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all ... the outcomes of those living in wealthy countries; many people are dying needlessly...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

... what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of which is ... no other place to call home. The well-being of these young people has long concerned a...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Unbound Philanthropy

Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services

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09/28/2017

... Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services For most young people , turning 21 is ceremonious. It's a rite of passage ... daunting significance. Per existing law, homeless young people can only stay in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

... LGBTQ anti-discrimination policies and banned trans people from using the public bathroom that corresponds to ... 142, allows the same kind of discrimination against trans people as the original law. . . In...

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Gender Justice

Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... the lack of support to organizations headed by women and people of color. Well, here’s one funder that’s actually ... building by women of color, low-income women and LGBTQ people . Groundswell was founded in...

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Gender Justice

Many Young Adults With Autism Also Have Mental Health Issues

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10/03/2017

... was also managing all the aspects of daily life that most people not on the autism spectrum take for granted. ... disorder (ADHD) than are typically developing people or those with other developmental...

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Despite Washington Drama, Pace of Health System Change Accelerates

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10/06/2017

... jargon can be thick, but the phrase just means keeping people healthy. And how do you keep people healthy? To use more jargon, you address the “social ...

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The Center for Court Innovation

TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... of procedural justice. “It’s a concept that says if people perceive that they are treated fairly and with dignity ... of Newark Community Solutions suggests that by addressing people respectfully, using plain...

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Caught Our Attention

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Justice Reform

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... a private nonprofit that provides legal representation to people who cannot afford it, with a special emphasis on death row prisoners, juveniles and people they believe were wrongly convicted... Atlantic ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

... by the Commonwealth Fund, included more than 23,000 people from 11 developed countries, and revealed that ... which aren’t curable but could have been headed off had people gotten better care earlier. Yet...

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Aging

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The Commonwealth Fund

Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... and inspires youth, the challenges they face, and how people of all ages can collectively enable transformational ... change—if it’s harnessed productively. 2. Young people are more connected than any previous...

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Sam Adler-Bell, Policy Associate at the Century Foundation, Spoke With WNYC About the Ongoing J20 Case

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12/21/2017

... About the Ongoing J20 Case On January 20th, thousands of people came to Washington to protest President Trump's inauguration. Nearly a year later, about 200 people who participated in those protests...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who develop a sporadic form of colon cancer. A ... colon cancer, a disease that kills more than 50,000 people each year in the U.S. and is on the...

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