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RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund

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10/29/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is partnering with a coalition of NGOs as part of a new grantmaking collaborative, the Ebola Survival Fund.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds New Smartphone Application to Detect Vision Problems in Young Patients

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11/05/2014

... challenging to examine: newborns and children. The system can capture key structures at the back of the eye in a ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

... opposes America’s development of a missile-defense system and contributes funds to scores of anti-war groups ...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s health-care system . The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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The Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund's Carol Levine

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12/11/2014

... navigate the confusing long-term care and health care system , especially through transitions between health care ...

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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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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Partnerships Are Key to Our Programming

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03/04/2015

... months. On March 16, we will be discussing the modern food system and how it has led to the highest levels of global ... of an economically robust, responsible, regional food system . On March 25, we will host...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... both components of the CDC Global Tobacco Surveillance System . Results from the survey, which will be conducted in ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... computer science students. It’s time our education system prioritizes the skills these jobs demand in a scalable ...

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Education

Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... have discovered critical details of how a cell's response system tells the difference between these two perpetual .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

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09/10/2015

Surdna seeks nonprofits that improve urban infrastructure systems that maximize positive impact while minimizing negative consequences.

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

... "a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform

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03/18/2016

... ways to possibly reform the city’s criminal justice system . . . Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

... by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner, our current UI system is facing a funding crisis that has made the safety ...

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Economic Security

Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care

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04/15/2016

Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, one of three foundations that commissioned the survey, said advanced care planning “is not just an extra . . . it’s just as important in its own way as chemotherapy or surgery.”

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending

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04/19/2016

... on better understanding performance of the U.S. healthcare system . Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New ...

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