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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

In partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, Northwestern University has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a program designed to advance the study of...

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

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06/05/2014

Health insurance premiums for people buying coverage on their own grew an average of 10 percent or more a year during the three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

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It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

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06/09/2014

Dr. David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund, says that the United States needs "creative new solutions to protect the avalanche of boomers against a huge threat to the quality of their ever longer lives."

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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06/11/2014

[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...

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Heintz and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash

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06/20/2014

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz and Chair Valerie Rockefeller Wayne pay tribute in a message on the foundation's website to Dr. Richard Rockefeller, advisory trustee, who died in a plane crash on June 13.

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Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards

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06/30/2014

Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris Kearns Goodwin won for nonfiction.

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has received the Chern Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues

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08/20/2014

... improve urban life. The foundation will direct significant funding and other assistance to help dozens of cities adopt ...

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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91

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08/27/2014

... in 2012. Under her leadership the foundation provided funding to many of the leading social service programs and ...

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Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts

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10/02/2014

... the country do so. The six-year initiative will provide funding for up to 24 nonprofit organizations — ...

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NYCT and Tiger Foundation Among Funders of Single-Sex Education

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10/28/2014

... Education Single-gender education is certainly not a new concept, but the number of such schools is on the ...

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ASPCA Provides More than $9.1 Million in Grants through 3Q 2014

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10/31/2014

... or extra help getting adopted. ROAR To Their Rescue, a funding initiative in collaboration with Animal Planet, ...

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Nancy Mahon Named Estee Lauder Senior Vice President, Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship

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10/07/2014

Estée Lauder Companies Inc. appointed Nancy Mahon to Senior Vice President, Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship.

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... when it went to great lengths to ensure recipients did not know the identity of their benefactor, it wants to go out ...

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People with Health Insurance Still Can't Afford All the Care They Need

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11/14/2014

... spent at least 5 percent of their income on medical care ( not including the cost of premiums), and 13 percent said they ...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Announce Second Batch of Resilient Cities

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12/02/2014

Cities were selected from an applicant pool spanning 94 countries.

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Fund for the City of New York provided the cash prizes for the teachers and their schools.

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

Program is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative.

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Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor

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01/23/2015

... to Help Global Poor Mention "slow food" and it's hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and hipsters ... Ford Foundation. The initiative’s primary focus is on funding innovative...

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