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Rockefeller Foundation Gives $150K to Leading Disaster Relief Organization

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11/23/2016

... to the way disaster relief is paid for in order to increase resilience in affected communities. The aim is to ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy

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11/30/2016

Who’s going big to change the world? Here are the ten most promising big bets.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Largest Funder of Tobacco-Control Efforts in the Developing World

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12/05/2016

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York has long been a champion of anti-smoking efforts in the United States. He signed into law an act banning smoking in bars and restaurants and increased the tax on cigarettes.

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

Officials with the foundation say that the five-year program will support dramatic changes to the way principals are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local colleges and universities to redesign teacher training.

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Education

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative

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01/11/2017

... $20 million in grants to 10 U.S. states to dramatically increase the number of students who graduate from high school ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage

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01/11/2017

This analysis of health plan premium growth in California’s insurance marketplaces, focusing on the policies that consumers actually purchased, finds that the average price paid for plans selected in 2014 was 11.6 percent less than the average price...

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Commonwealth Fund Research Cited in NYTimes Piece on 'Fake Freedom' of GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

... estimated that the new Republican health plan would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 24 million ...

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Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges

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04/14/2017

... to Attend Private Colleges States could save money and increase college-graduation rates by providing modest ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

That Trump is undeniably the nation’s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation’s increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll.

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Civic Engagement

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NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park

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04/21/2017

Randall’s Island Park Alliance announced that it has been awarded a 175,000 dollar grant from the New York State Health Foundation to provide funding for free health and wellness programming at Randall’s Island Park, with a focus on increasing...

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New York Health Foundation

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

The demonization of the American-Hungarian billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread from Hungary and Moscow across Europe and into the United States, with the 86-year-old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his money to force his...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

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06/23/2017

... will grow from $6,470 to $6,670 this fall, a 3 percent increase . The state's community colleges set their own .....

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A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO

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07/18/2017

... of clients representing more than $100 billion in assets increase their philanthropic impact. Arabella Advisors’ ...

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

... measures that expand the definition of harassment and increase the civil penalties for it. “Sometimes it feels ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Trump Tax Plan May Free Up Corporate Dollars, but Then What?

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08/31/2017

... businesses, but also to stimulate investment, create jobs, increase global competitiveness and promote economic growth. ...

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Economic Security

Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

The result is an Obamacare system that’s still vulnerable, but far from the ‘disaster’ Trump and his top health officials describe.

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