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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

... using a system erratically or not at all, according to a new survey. While that may seem like common sense, the study ...

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

Billionaire Diller’ s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island ... Wednesday that he was pulling the plug on his family’ s commitment to build and operate a $250 million performance ... fizzling...

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Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago

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09/14/2017

... in Chicago Former President Barack Obama announced in a new video Wednesday that he will gather together civic ... summit will take place in the city that will host Obama' s presidential library and his...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’ s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was ... nonprofit organizations. And while many of the nation’ s largest...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... relationship with grantees make those goals a challenge. A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward ...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’ s advances was started by a question….Knowing what ... important than the eventual answers.” When it comes to new products and services, this design-based approach...

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University' s Workshop on TV News Preservation Archivists, librarians and ... Next Generation” workshop, with the goal of developing new strategies for sustaining library-based...

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Communications/Media

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General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... all-electric, zero-emissions future. That starts with two new , fully electric models next year—then at least 18 more ... and Jaguar Land Rover have announced similar moves. GM’ s declaration, though, is...

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

... own money from an ATM not affiliated with your bank, it' s not just your imagination. ATM fees across the nation hit ... charge from the ATM owner and the one from the consumer' s bank for using...

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Economic Security

FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand Treatment

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10/04/2017

FDA' s Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely ... ago, but she doesn't qualify yet for the Medicaid program' s criteria for treatment with a new class of highly...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In ...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... city does provide 30 days of notice for the opening of a new shelter, but has not done so when it uses hotels — ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future

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11/22/2017

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future The nation' s major philanthropies have long operated by noblesse oblige, ... the Rockefeller Foundation'...

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’ s Rajiv Shah Rajiv Shah took the helm of the Rockefeller ... the role of philanthropy in times of austerity, and the new initiatives that Rockefeller is undertaking both...

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Learn About The Isivivana Centre, An Atlantic Philanthropies Grantee

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01/22/2018

... . This short film tells the story of this vital and unique new space. Learn About The Isivivana Centre, An Atlantic ...

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Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

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03/27/2018

... to corals. The project was also designed to explore new ways to reduce the impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, the world' s largest coral reef system... Funded by The Tiffany & Co. .....

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