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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Donations for Ebola Relief Efforts Are Slow to Take Off

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10/20/2014

... since terrorists took down the World Trade Center in 2001, Americans have generously supported the organizations that ... which make giving as easy as clicking a button, Americans have donated billions of...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

... taxes, gun rights, religious liberty and foreign policy, Americans may well be overlooking an even bigger problem: ...

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

Casey Family Programs Announces Winner of the 2015 Casey Excellence for Children Award

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05/21/2015

The 2015 honoree is The Center for Native American Youth.

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Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America

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09/01/2015

... banks, supporting our efforts to stabilize the lives of Americans struggling with hunger," said Matt Knott, president ... but truly impacts every community. We encourage all Americans to support their...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Community Development

Food Systems

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

More than two dozen youth from across Central Brooklyn gathered for the first part of a 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge presented by Central Brooklyn State Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Blue 1647 hosted at the Nigerian American Muslim...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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Con Edison (Corporate)

Mellon Foundation Supports Scholarship on America’s Immigration History, including Interactive Graphics

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12/17/2015

American Panorama, a detailed graphical representation of immigration history, was created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Immigration

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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

... advantage of them. The new study shows that men, African- Americans and Latinos, and people with asthma, sleep apnea or ... higher odds of developing keratoconus. But females, Asian- Americans and people with...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... to double over the next 35 years. By 2050, the number of Americans with a variety of eye disease and impairment ... USC Roski Eye Institute, found that by 2050, 16.4 million Americans over age 40 will have VI...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

Release Date:

12/09/2016

... that we are spending too much money to put too many Americans behind bars. Our prison and jail population has ... to about 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013, 8 million Americans —one in 40—were behind bars or...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Education

Justice Reform

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

Featuring NY Community Trust, UJA-Federation of New York, MAC AIDS Fund, The Search for PNY's Next Public Policy Fellow.

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

The first national study of language learning in 30 years was requested from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by a bipartisan group of members of U.S. Senate & House of Representatives.

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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Arts

Education

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Mellon Foundation

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... addresses the need to improve opportunities for all Americans —regardless of income, education or ethnic ... of households facing food insecurity, more than 23 million Americans living in so-called rural or...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... as a young heiress and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign ...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... a similarly gloomy picture. The jobless rate for black Americans is generally about twice that of white Americans , a ratio that improves only somewhat in “good” ...

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Economic Security

‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans , Republicans are fighting back with familiar ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans , I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in ... why: The proposed reforms would shrink the number of Americans who claim the itemized...

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