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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... found in a start-up slump — a decline in the creation of new businesses — and a growing understanding of what’ s behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in ...

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Workforce Development

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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Environment and Climate Change

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Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth

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10/03/2017

... earners have been growing as a share of this region’ s population, according to the Pew Research Center. Tracy Pitcher, executive director of the St. Paul’ s Center for homeless mothers and their children,...

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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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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U. S . with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor ... Whole Foods, it borrowed it through the bond market. The U. S . Treasury’ s...

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Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U. S . Donors A new study sponsored by the nation’ s second largest grantmaker, Fidelity Charitable, highlights ...

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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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Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors

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12/01/2017

... The Rippel Foundation, which seeks to uncover and advance new and fundamentally different and better ways to improve ...

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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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John A. Hartford Foundation Grantee Releases Medicare Advocacy Toolkit

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01/16/2018

... a John A. Hartford Foundation grantee, has released a new toolkit, "Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Coverage And .....

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Aging

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Pfizer: Joins AMP Health Partnership to Increase Access to Care in Africa

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02/02/2018

... of tens of thousands of CHWs and expand its work to new countries, including Zambia and Ghana.... Pfizer: ...

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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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