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Celebrating Black Philanthropy Month and Our Collective History

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08/09/2016

... motivated, or made, to join) as my parents gave of their time, talents, and treasure. I accompanied my maternal ... to deliver hot, home-cooked meals to those who didn’t have the means or had no family to...

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Moore Philanthropy

Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)

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08/10/2016

... operational nonprofits with promising models communicate their outcomes and costs effectively to funders. The ... for executives of social services organizations that have been operational for at least three...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

... and warlords and creating millions of refugees who have reshaped the politics of Lebanon, Turkey, and the ... reached an inflection point, and Obama’s successor will have to shape a new response. The status...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

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09/09/2016

... responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature—from “automatic” physiological ... to health, as the metabolic processes that keep us alive have evolved to operate within a narrow...

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Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America

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09/23/2016

... Feeding America launched in 2009, over 11,000 employees have volunteered more than 60,000 hours with Feeding America food banks, and over 50 million meals have been distributed. “Feeding America and its...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities

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10/21/2016

... partnerships will revitalize neighborhoods in their respective cities that have been left behind by the recovery. “The 2016 PRO Neighborhoods winners have come to the table with very exciting...

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Community Development

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

... person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file. The JustLeadershipUSA founder ... was in prison and that’s not the conversation we tend to have about people who get locked up.”...

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent ...

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... Hunters Discover New Primate Species Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to ... in northern India for six years. Although paleontologists have scoured this region for a century...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

... a century. Over the past few decades, significant gains have been made in this area. In the United States, for ... than 10 million Americans. Worldwide, a range of efforts have sought to bring poor countries...

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Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard

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03/16/2017

... like New Jersey that chose to embrace the federal law have seen greater improvements than those that did not, ... at the Commonwealth Fund found Garden State residents have better access to healthcare and...

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

... strong genetic component. To date, approximately 50 genes have been identified that almost certainly play a role in ... more genetic samples are needed from those with autism and their immediate families. That...

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MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship of “Multipliers of Prosperity” for a Third Year

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04/05/2017

... shares insights and chronicles the triumphs of people who have taken steps towards financial stability and the providers who have helped them reach their goals... MetLife Foundation Announces...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Highlights Coal Communities in Latest Film

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05/01/2017

... the possibility of losing its federal funding, which would have a crippling effect on its work—and on the former ... while cleaning up environmental disasters coal companies have so often left behind.....

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Environment and Climate Change

Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

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06/05/2017

... mechanisms for people with preexisting conditions who have lapses in their coverage. In previous posts, I have talked about the high costs and meager coverage ...

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

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06/13/2017

... year. Whatever the contours of the bill, the plan will have to first overcome a significant problem that already ... As the president and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have rightly said, America’s low...

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Workforce Development

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... Some papers, such as Flowers, Elvi and the new Ali, have a distinctly Warhol feel. Others, such as Crowd (Where’s Warhol), are more suggestive. I have used Crowd a couple of times in powder rooms — it’s ...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... In honor of all that fathers do to help raise and nurture their children with autism - SPARK launched its "Men of ... of two short films that feature eight couples, all of whom have children with autism...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... tobacco epidemic published today finds that more countries have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from ... were covered. Strategies to implement such policies have saved millions of people from an...

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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

... Brain Disorders Just as parents are not the root of all their children’s problems, a single gene mutation can’t ... operate more like rifles than shotguns. “The drugs we have now are not working for these...

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