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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... laws, and stronger enforcement of those laws. That’ s why, since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working ... that together account for more than half of the world’ s road deaths. Last year, we expanded...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... Dr. William R. Hite, Jr., and The Trust for Public Land’ s Jeff Danter, Senior Vice President and Atlantic Seaboard ... Division Director, announced the expansion of the City’ s innovative Green2015...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation Join Pew in the Protection of Vast Swaths of Ocean

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10/30/2015

... We've been writing a lot over the past year about the new money and energy pouring into marine conservation. The ... like Packard and Moore. One marine funder that' s on a particularly strong winning...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Duke & Mellon Foundations Sponsor Provocative Dance Work on the Legacy of Confederate Symbolism

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11/19/2015

... Wideman/Davis Dance, the UofSC Dance Program’ s resident professional dance company, will present their ... of South Carolina Dance Program, Ruptured Silence is a new media and dance performance that examines...

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Mellon Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40's Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit

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11/25/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40' s Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit C40’ s new report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, contains .....

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Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible

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12/17/2015

... plus the additional interest required to finance that new debt. Over the next two decades, estimates suggest that ... bill is a big step in the wrong direction for our nation’ s fiscal and economic health...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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07 Jul 2016

Service for Impact

Thursday, July 7, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities to make a difference in society while ... the other to deliver greater impact on the organization’ s business and societal goals. Designed...

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using CRISPR/Cas9, a new gene-editing technology. The technique is so precise it ... the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

... 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created a new vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

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12/12/2016

... and activism to help shape the family foundation’ s strategic vision. Under her leadership, the Norman ... To ensure the continued commitment to the Foundation’ s social justice legacy, Makela helped the...

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16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... services. The webinar will also preview NCFP’ s two new tools for community foundations: a self-assessment ...

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BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality

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01/26/2017

... than three million people around the country -- that' s one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another ... many of those same people woke up and asked, "What' s next?" Supporters...

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09 Mar 2017

Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

This program is a part of our new Climate Change Series. We invite you to join ... with the filmmaker and the production company' s impact director about strategies for shifting awareness, .....

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

... to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. This new Art for Justice Fund — to be announced Monday at the ...

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Justice Reform

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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

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06/22/2017

... have been so successful, but also how the mainstream media' s failure to adapt to new means of communication plays into internet malcontents' .....

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PhilTalks

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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

... benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, ... was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann' s Plant and Environmental...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... field. Aside from the amount of the funding, there’ s a number of notable aspects to the partnership. For one, there’ s an emphasis on some under-explored areas of AI research, ... algorithms work, and the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Education

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IBM Corporation

Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... CEO Paul McDonald has now stated he wants to roll out 50 new Bodega locations on the West Coast. By the end of 2018, ... a culturally insensitive name choice, but for the article' s declaration that the...

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Food Systems

The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... Their latest report, titled “The Power of Voice: A New Era of Cause Activation and...

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