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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Life and Work of Robert Rauschenberg Profiled in NYTimes

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06/04/2015

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation focuses on funding art initiatives that connect people across cultural lines.

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Noyes Foundation Urges Donors to Make More Timely Allocations From Their Donor Advised Funds

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06/29/2015

... Urges Donors to Make More Timely Allocations From Their Donor Advised Funds The Jessie Smith Noyes ... social justice giving opportunities. Donor Advised Funds have become a popular and proven means of...

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Do Corporate Grantmakers Care More About the Poor Than Other Foundations?

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06/30/2015

... Foundation, the Walmart Foundation and others – have ratcheted up their giving to underserved communities in the last decade, ... from 2004 to 2012. Corporate funders now outspend their...

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Ella Baff will Join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer

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07/15/2015

... to the foundation’s Web site grants in those areas have totaled more than $344 million since 2010. “Ella ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

PHI Granted $50,000 Award to Commemorate Retirement of President of John A. Hartford Foundation

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07/15/2015

... I first came to know PHI more than a decade ago, I have always admired what you and your colleagues are doing to ...

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Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes

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07/30/2015

... Palmer and his wife, Susan, married in 2007, they chose to have the ceremony here, where he was inducted into the ...

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Jane Beyer Named Program Officer at Center for Evidence-based Policy and Milbank Memorial Fund

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09/09/2015

... state health policy groups. “We are fortunate to have someone of Jane’s caliber and commitment join our ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Milbank Memorial Fund

17 Sep 2015

How U.S. Funders Can Respond to the Current Global Refugee Crisis - Webinar

Thursday, September 17, 2015 -

4:00pm to 5:30pm

... Central America, and elsewhere across the globe have driven a record-high 60 million people from their homes. Half of these refugees and internally displaced ... toddlers washed ashore to trucks full of...

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Immigration

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Children, Youth and Families

MetLife Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Raise Awareness about Financial Inclusion

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09/10/2015

... nearly 30% of the region’s population, still do not have access to bank accounts or other formal financial ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

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09/15/2015

... would increase and 400,000 older people, who tend to have more health problems, would lose coverage.... ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Doris Duke and Simons Foundations Back Breakthrough Sickle Cell Research

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09/18/2015

... cell patients with elevated levels of fetal hemoglobin have a milder form of the disease. This study was ...

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Is Travel the New Face of Philanthropy?

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09/28/2015

... data shows that more than half of the Americans surveyed have given of their money, time or goods while on a recent vacation. Not ... travelers who "give back" prior to, during and following ...

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American Express [corporate]

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NYS Health Foundation Publishes Report on Expanding Health Insurance Access for New Yorkers

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10/13/2015

... successes and challenges that Enrollment Network grantees have experienced as they sought to improve health insurance ... enrollment experience but serve as trusted messengers to their communities... NYS...

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New York Health Foundation

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Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

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10/20/2015

... to travel to a developing country to see communities that have been left in the last century. Stand in the lobbies of ...

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Simons Foundation Recognizes spectrUM as a National Model on STEM Engagement

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10/26/2015

... its partner on the Flathead Indian Reservation, SciNation, have received the 2015 Paul Shin Memorial Award from the ... engagement with the Flathead Reservation’s communities. Their cooperative efforts include...

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Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

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10/29/2015

... be asked to help lead this organization going forward. We have a great board - of business, government and academic ... Rockefeller as a young lawyer, and in the subsequent years have had the opportunity to...

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Peterson Foundation Calls Tax Extenders Legislation Fiscally Irresponsible

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12/17/2015

... and $2 trillion over twenty years, this bill would have an enormous impact on our long-term fiscal future. It ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Public Policy

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces More Than $1.1 Million in Grants to Promote Early-Stage Approaches in Government and Journalism

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12/18/2015

... growing use of digital technologies, people everywhere now have access to a spectacular wealth of information. New ...

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Civic Engagement

Communications/Media

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Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

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01/26/2016

... populations recorded over the past 25 years, researchers have found that viral populations vary dramatically from ... "Because viruses are parasites, it was assumed that their number would vary linearly...

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