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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

... the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA' s Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program ... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration

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07/08/2015

... and interactive. Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

A "resilience bond", a variation on a catastrophe bond, could help cities deal more effectively with climate change-related disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... Bathrooms With so much media focus on North Carolina‘ s anti-transgender bathroom law, LGBT advocates may be ... trying to live authentically in their true gender. A new report reveals transgender women and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities A new effort to enroll low- and moderate-income undergraduates ... is being coordinated by the nonprofit Aspen Institute’ s College Excellence Program and...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’ s population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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

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03/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor' s Office in a Quest for Better Health Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy ... $100,000 and come out of the $2 million...

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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

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03/24/2017

... — are increasingly researched and understood. Now, a new pilot project initiated by the World Wildlife Fund ... of any human activity, yet one-third of the world’ s available food either spoils or gets thrown...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation' s Investment Committee The Nathan Cummings Foundation is ... announce the appointment of Lisa Green Hall to the Board’ s Investment Committee as an...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

Soros Hits Back at Hungary’ s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School ... Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’ s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros ... of law...

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Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... 12th annual donation to the group of charities. Buffett’ s gift included 18.63 million Class B shares of his ... in the company, according to Reuters. But even with the new donation, he still owns about 17%...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ... such a fiscal crisis looming. As we know, a downturn in funding is sometimes not...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format for charity, EmojiMeals features ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... India’ s poor to a set of abstract data. Along with funding...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Facebook and want to help? You don’t even have to open a new tab. Many of you may have seen the prompts from Google ... Philanthropy. The center hopes to satisfy the public’ s need to help in the immediate...

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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... health care cost transparency website, will empower New Yorkers from across the State to plan for and manage ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

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10/06/2017

... Better Sanitation to Homes in India Johnson & Johnson' s CaringCrowd' s platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global ... bring a better sanitation solution to some small homes in...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding at Houston’ s Alley Theatre, actors and production staff were ... They continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of...

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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico Three major U. S .-based foundations on Wednesday pledged an initial $5 ... of homes and killed at least 55 people across the U. S . territory. "We have to...

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