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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’ s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts On the wall in Mike Basher’ s office at Chester’ s Fare & Square, there’ s...

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Food Systems

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... lunch, or just run into each other in the hallways. That’ s the kind of research environment the Simons Foundation is ... and its most ambitious yet, the Flatiron Institute. What’ s more, Jim and Marilyn...

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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training

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06/13/2017

Markle Foundation: Trump' s Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training ... out his principles for a $1 trillion makeover of America’ s roads, bridges, waterways, electrical grid, and air...

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U. S . These efforts have transformed or saved hundreds of ... inevitable success stories in retrospect. Many of today’ s emerging large-scale...

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The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself

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09/06/2017

The Fall’ s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself ... years, resigned under pressure in late February, but it’ s not over. The most obvious questions are: Who will be the ... yet, she — be...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent On Wednesday, the U. S . Education Department confirmed that the education ... that Ms. DeVos was poised to roll back the department’ s efforts on mitigating campus sexual...

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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

... Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers? In New York City’ s breakneck effort to offer free preschool to all 4-year ... with access. About three years into Mayor Bill de Blasio’ s signature education policy...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “It’ s permanent until homelessness is solved.” So remarked John Schoettler, Amazon’ s real estate and facilities VP, to the New York Times after an announcement...

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. Giuliani’ s battle with the Brooklyn Museum over a Virgin Mary artwork ... recently a fight over an exhibit that evoked Emmett Till’ s mutilated corpse. Typically...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

These days, to achieve maximum buzz, a policy idea needs the right combination of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has recently offered the headiest brew of that mix, for both the...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

Many nonprofits embrace online giving because it makes asking for gifts, processing payments, and thanking donors easier and less costly. Some organizations are investing heavily in online fundraising platforms like Razoo or CauseVox, or improving...

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

... is one major funder we've written about often that' s a leader in this area. It' s been working for years to improve methods to get critical .....

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’ s major philanthropic priorities has long been ocean ... in funding climate change work. The tech donor’ s latest major grant is right in the sweet spot...

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Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

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10/04/2017

... I was recently among those gathered inside Sacramento’ s Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in solidarity with California’ s immigrant population. After silent prayers and words of ... side. Their eyes were...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... Immigration (BAJI) and New York University Law School’ s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic found that while Black immigrants make up seven ...

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... garden, right across the street from one of the city’ s largest public housing communities, Ocean Bay (Bayside) ...

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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

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10/27/2017

... including the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation and the Simons Foundation envision U. S . public libraries as open community spaces fostering ... City-based JPB Foundation...