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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... of Time Despite the enactment of justice reforms in many states , the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped ... of the reason why: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

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06/30/2020

... detention center, across every state in the United States over the next three and a half years. The Mellon ... with authors and the literary community. The United States has the highest incarceration rate of...

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10/2013

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan

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04/28/2016

... attitudes of voters toward the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in four key states : Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In ... Protection Agency to block the CPP from being enacted . The poll...

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... during the three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The analysis , by Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute ... at individual...

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Diversity in Philanthropy

... the Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy Committee (1990- 2015 ), the Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy ... philanthropy’s diversity, equity, and inclusion. D5 has four main priorities for big...

Beyond the Bubble

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01/22/2020

... of the most segregated in the country. [1] In the United States , one in every 1,000 black men "can expect to be" ... Half of the homeless population in the U.S. lives in five states , and, in those...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Board Chair and Members

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06/06/2025

... a new Board Chair, Don Chen, President, Surdna Foundation, four new members, and two were elected for a second term on ... where she oversaw the finance, accounting, IT, human resources , operations, and grants...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Will Distribute $2.5 Million Recovered Through Lawsuits Against Sham Cancer Charities

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06/21/2019

... marks the conclusion of the lawsuit, brought in May 2015 . The suit was the first time that all 50 States , the District of Columbia and the Federal Trade ... through settlements of a landmark lawsuit against...

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To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

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06/23/2020

... Read Part 2: Research Studies: A Convener's Best Friend In 2016 the Rauch Foundation, a regional foundation on Long ... asset: the Long Island Rail Road. The Index published an analysis of how several...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Shares National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan

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04/28/2020

... and a dangerous, uncertain return to normalcy, the United States must mount a sustainable strategy with better tests ... commons and digital platform to track Covid-19 statuses, resources , and effective...

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Schott Foundation Announces Diana Tate Vermeire as SVP of Strategy

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05/10/2021

... lead Schott’s organization-wide strategies to generate resources , strategically invest and develop partnerships to ... rights, K-12 education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and policing on campuses. While a...

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New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana

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08/25/2016

... to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana NEW YORK, August 25, 2016 – New York Life announced today that it will donate ... is now the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy...

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More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

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07/28/2017

... Appointing Chief Resilience Officers Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a ... officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’s...

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Building Bridges to Communities of Color: A Toolkit for Engaging Donors of Color

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06/2007

Created as part of our work with the Coalition for New Philanthropy, this toolkit offers examples of effective donor-engagement strategies; challenges and lessons learned; best practices; and useful tools.

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These Leaders Are Rallying to Stop New NY Taxes on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits

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08/22/2018

... and exercised our voices on the controversial measures affecting nonprofits that were debated in the run-up to last ... to 22 percent. But none of these is expected to be enacted this year. On a number of...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces the 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Awardees

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08/09/2022

... subsequent research funding. In fact, 82% of 1998- 2016 awardees, compared with 66% of highly competitive but ... Project name: “Genomic and Spatial Expression Analysis of Oligodendroglioma to Identify Novel...

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