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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

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08/05/2015

Over 100 cities applied to the initiative, which will help city halls use data and evidence to deliver better results for residents.

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Aetna Foundation Encourages Using Data to Help Tackle Healthcare Disparities

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08/11/2015

... Sabina write in a Health Affairs blog post. "A person' s ZIP code is a stronger predictor of his or her overall ... be prevented each year. Considering that there are many public health, policy,...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

... came entirely from SolarCity in 2014, will begin to accept public donations in 2015.... Bank of America Provides ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Nonprofit Claims by For-Profit Colleges

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10/06/2015

... is one of the central findings in The Century Foundation' s latest report, The Covert For-Profit by TCF senior fellow Robert Shireman. The report' s findings are based on previously undisclosed...

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... in order to create the most effective principals for public schools. According to the report, it is the first ...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

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10/16/2015

... The New York Community Trust has given the Trust for Public Land a $100,000 grant for the QueensWay, a proposed ... according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group’ s 84 total grants given to various...

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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

... Excellent Schools have declined to name the nonprofit’ s funders since it was founded in 2012. But a July filing with the state’ s Joint Commission on Public Ethics shows finance titans Dan...

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NBC News Profiles Asian Women Giving Circle at Ms. Foundation

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01/29/2016

In 2005, Hali Lee invited 10 friends together to raise money for what she hoped would be a game-changing geh, a shared saving circle, and the Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) was officially born. AWGC functions as a donor-advised fund at the Ms...

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Bangladeshi Law Student Receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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04/19/2016

... leadership potential and have an interest in government or public sector service. And he’ s also one of 30 recipients of the Paul and Daisy Soros ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado

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04/29/2016

... on climate action plans to have other net benefits—like public health... Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration

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05/12/2016

Since 2010, when the Milbank Memorial Fund published its first behavioral health integration (BHI) report, the field has advanced conceptually, and there has been a proliferation of research.

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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

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05/24/2016

... has teamed up with the Global Resilience Partnership, a public -private initiative spearheaded by the Rockefeller ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees

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06/21/2016

... shock. Last month, Ramos and three other former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont' s Green Mountains with four-year degrees partly paid for by .....

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David Di Martino Elected to The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees

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07/14/2016

... has worked at the highest levels of national politics and public policy, having held senior positions on several ... the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and in the U. S . Senate and U. S...

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

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07/21/2016

Ford Foundation' s Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of ... old. Since its inception, both donors and the larger public have debated how individuals can deploy their ... In fact...

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Ford Program Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy

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07/25/2016

... Castille and Alton Sterling sparked a new round of public protest against the toxic blend of racism, ... too many black men and women and people of color in the U. S . At one protest in Dallas, a lone gunman...

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Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments

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08/24/2016

Carnegie' s Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments U. S . charitable foundations are facing tough choices about ... investments. The result could be increased pressure on...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to University of Michigan to Endow Postdoctoral Humanities Positions

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09/12/2016

... of the fellows, providing the opportunity for recent Ph.D.' s with the time and financial support to prepare the major .....

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Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership

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09/19/2016

... protect against attack by other people, a new survey of U. S . gun ownership by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern ... that there are an estimated 265 million firearms in U. S . homes — more than the number...

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