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07 Oct 2013

Conversations for Grantmakers: Making a Difference- How One Small Fund Created Big Impact!

Monday, October 7, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Join us and hear about the story of the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging, and how one woman' s gift to The Community Foundation created profound and dramatic impact on Genesee County' s...

Jacqueline Jones Named President of Foundation for Child Development

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07/01/2014

... on September 2. In the first term of President Obama' s administration, Dr. Jones -- well known for her work in ... as senior adviser on early learning to Arne Duncan, the U. S . Secretary of Education,...

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

Report Shows Link Between Children' s Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment Children ... from the Foundation for Child Development. Mother’ s Education and Children’ s Outcomes:...

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Number of Latinos with Insurance Surges with Affordable Care Act, According to Commonwealth Fund Report

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09/25/2014

... the healthcare law. The overall uninsured rate for U. S . adults under 65 plummeted from 20% to 15% in the same ... to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit group that studies U. S . and global health systems...

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MasterCard Foundation to Help Address Water Sanitation in East Africa with Micro-Credit Program

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10/27/2014

... CEO Gary White told participants in the forum. The U. S . based charity has partnered with MasterCard Foundation to ... a five-year program to disburse loans worth 19.5 million U. S . dollars to help meet house...

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The Haitian Earthquake: Response, Relief & Recovery

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01/14/2010

... the disaster in the days ahead for more information. Tell us what your foundation is doing—please send us information about your support for Haiti. The Haitian ...

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MetLife Foundation Increases Access to Online Capital for Small Businesses

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02/27/2015

... to Online Capital for Small Businesses The Accion U. S . Network, the largest nonprofit micro- and small business ... achieve business health and growth. The platform – us .accion.org – helps entrepreneurs start...

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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

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05/05/2015

Prudential Names America' s Top Youth Volunteers For community service initiatives that range from supporting families of U. S . soldiers to helping children with cancer, 10 students were named America’...

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Fusion OpEd Makes Case for New York Times Buying Bloomberg

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06/15/2015

... Bloomberg has the kind of rich-person problem most of us can barely dream of. Namely, how will he fulfil his ... to give away his $37bn fortune before he dies? It’ s harder than it looks. One possible solution...

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

... statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’ s historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. ... and that our neighbors will know, see and respect us for who we are" said Kevin...

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Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award

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07/31/2015

... Love My Librarian Award encourages library users in the U. S . to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, ... community. Nominees must be a librarian with a master' s degree from an ALA-...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... advancing social justice: “The arts quite simply enable us to be fully human. As a foundation committed to social justice, the creative spirit that gives us art and beauty cannot be disregarded or dismissed as...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fund much of the U. S . government’ s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of ... federal funding going to risk research. The report, U. S ...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... my generation. As female members of Generation X, many of us grew up being told that we could be anything. We could do ... The "glass ceiling" was being broken. This gave us an assumption that we had...

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’ s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize In January, our ... to transform society. The J.M.K. Innovation Prize gave us an opportunity to find and fund those projects, priming ... But we’d...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

... Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects The U. S . Department of Education is collaborating with ASCD and ... to Lead, an initiative jointly convened between the U. S . Department of Education, ASCD, and...

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Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

... the Best and Worst Job in Medicine? About one-third of U. S . and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied with ... primary care doctors face, Harvard Medical School' s Gordon Moore, M.D., interviewed...

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Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal

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09/09/2016

... 72 percent of those whose families have been in the U. S . longer agree. Eighty-five percent of first and second ... legal citizens, I think it gives the viewpoint that the U. S . cares," said Juan Tavares...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

... Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’ s National Dance Project The New England Foundation for the ... complete the report, entitled Moving Dance Forward: NEFA’ s National Dance Project at 20 &...

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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation

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01/10/2017

... staff since 2010, will be taking a position at Sotheby' s . "Sharon was one of the first people Christy hired and she has served us brilliantly for more than six years, most recently as ... artistic...

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