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Aetna Foundation Supports 'Magnobrain' Educational Games for Kids

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03/27/2017

The games where distributed through their “Inspire Me to Learn” initiative founded by a grant of $30,000 from the Aetna Foundation.

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... programs as the number one factor in both their own success and the sector’s progression. The Summit continues ...

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Sarah Eagle Heart to Receive 2017 American Express NGen Leadership Award

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07/26/2017

... has helped her lead organizations and people toward success .” . . . Sarah Eagle Heart to Receive 2017 American ...

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Commonwealth Fund: In the Healthcare Aftermath

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08/02/2017

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always needed fixing. Now that the Congress has tried and failed to repeal and replace it, the time for repair seems at hand.

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... and annual expenditures, which were used as a proxy for success or mission advancement. What the researchers found ...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

Dump your assumptions, and be curious.

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... thoroughgoing that it has even engendered a new crisis of success , whose symptoms are runaway gentrification, soaring ...

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Community Development

Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill

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09/21/2017

The health insurance industry, after cautiously watching Republican health care efforts for months, came out forcefully against the Senate’s latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, suggesting that its state-by-state block grants could create...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college- success program she leads. Instead she has turned to ...

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Pound Foolish

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09/22/2017

... junk food—distributed it, and measured our success by pounds of output. While bellies have been filled, ...

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Food Systems

Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

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09/28/2017

... (ADA), always banked on this knowledge. So when success rates for the organization’s reactivation campaigns ...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But once the emergency has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way.

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

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09/29/2017

Delivering humanitarian aid can be enormously complex. It requires far-flung logistical efforts that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places where infrastructure may be...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests

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10/03/2017

In this video, Our Compelling Interests series co-editors Nancy Cantor and Earl Lewis ask: What is at stake if America does not embrace diversity?

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

When the Every Student Succeeds Act was enacted, speculation swirled that states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine whether their schools are successful.

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

... report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was funded by The Clark .....

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

The Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013.

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How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility

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02/09/2018

... for Women has outlined how to make children at work day a success , so we should use it and tailor it to our local ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

In separate studies, researchers test bacteria that suppresses development of malaria parasite, genetic modification that boosts mosquito immune systems

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