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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation ’s Best Health Care After the average life expectancy ... Minnesota, Vermont, and Utah followed in the rankings. The nation ’s worst health care system...

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

The honor recognizes Tschinkel’s mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory.

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Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

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03/13/2015

“The first-ever global study of female characters in popular films, launched today, reveals deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls by the international film industry,” according to UN Women, which supported the...

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East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation's First Little Italy

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11/11/2016

East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation 's First Little Italy The United States' first Little ... to the 1970s... East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation 's First Little Italy .....

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Community Development

Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... social justice will enhance NCRP's efforts to ensure our nation 's social movements are getting the philanthropic .....

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NoVo Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

Release Date:

07/21/2016

Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation ' Article on Future of Philanthropy Philanthropy, in ... rekindled. Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation ' Article...

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Simons Foundation Recognizes spectrUM as a National Model on STEM Engagement

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10/26/2015

An award from the Simons Foundation recognized spectrUM as a national model in the “just add science” approach to embedding STEM engagement in community events. spectrUM was also honored with the 2015 Paul Shin Memorial Award from the Coalition on...

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

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01/26/2017

On Saturday, more than three million people around the country -- that's one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another 250,000 people around the world marched in the name of gender equality.

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BNY

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports National Geographic Documentary About the Coal and Mining Industry

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04/14/2017

From the Ashes captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry, and what its future should be under the Trump administration.

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Video

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

Skepticism abounded when Phillip Morris International announced it would fund and help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The tobacco giant plans to donate about $80 million a year for 12 years to this new organization...

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Morgan Stanley Announces $10 Million to Support National Urban League Collaboration

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06/29/2020

Funds will expand financial literacy, workforce development and access to capital programs.

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Morgan Stanley

12 May 2010

DC Voting Rights: National Impact of the Movement for Full Democracy in DC

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

REGISTRATION: RSVP to Abby Levine at alevine@dcvote.org or 202-462-6000 x17 by Friday, May 7, 2010. A Philanthropy New York Members Briefing , presented by Carnegie Corporation of New York , Open Society Insitute...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced.

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Ford and Markle Foundations Support National Alliance To Increase College Graduation Rates

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04/19/2018

Eleven large research institutions, including Michigan State University, have come together across state and conference lines to increase the rate at which students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds graduate from college.

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Education

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

23 Jul 2019

Saving the Vaquitas: Screening and Discussion of National Geographic's Sea of Shadows

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 -

3:00pm to 6:00pm

As part of our collaborative film series, please join our partners, Media Impact Funders and the Environmental Grantmakers Association to a special screening and discussion of the award-winning film Sea of Shadows , that follows undercover...

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The Rockefeller Drug Laws: New Opportunities for Investment with a National Impact

Release Date:

04/02/2010

... and in the years following became the model for the nation ’s War on Drugs at the state and federal level. The ...

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

Release Date:

03/13/2015

New rules—adopted last month by the Federal Communications Commission and released Thursday—classify broadband providers in the same category as phone service providers, allowing the government to regulate them more strictly.