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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Ford Foundation Joins Funders To Launch The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund

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08/13/2018

... and Ford collaborating on this effort. Both foundations have made racial equity a priority, working to combat racial ...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

... spending and revenues. These interconnected trends will have significant, but not yet fully understood, implications ... of Americans. US 2050 will explore these issues and their link to the country's...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Ford Foundation

Inside Rockefeller Foundation’s $20 Million Plan to Improve Energy Access in India

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09/05/2018

... Pradesh, where less than 10 percent of rural households have access to electricity. “There’s a massive need for ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... among young people eager to step up and help rebuild their homes, their neighborhoods and their communities,” said Karina ... projects, or arts and photography projects, youth have...

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Disaster Relief

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

... Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara have published the first comprehensive analysis of how ... Published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, their study, "Global change in marine...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Zegar Family Foundation

Inside Philanthropy Looks at The Helmsley Charitable Trust Work to Improve Stroke Outcomes in Rural America

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09/11/2018

... a hospital. Larger, more sparsely populated states can have a tough time maintaining advanced care centers ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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New Report Funded By The New York State Health Foundation Offers Solutions to Help NY’s Unpaid Family Caregivers

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09/17/2018

... economic opportunity and social connectedness. “We now have a great roadmap for how to better support New York’s ...

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New York Health Foundation

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07 Nov 2018

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A Conversation about Education with the Gates Foundation’s Bob Hughes

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... role of being grantmaker and how his years as an advocate have influenced his strategies at the Gates Foundation. ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Finds Funder Collaboratives for Systems Change Gaining Momentum

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10/01/2018

... (48 pages, PDF), highlights many of the practices that have gained traction. Among them, the study found that ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring

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10/03/2018

... Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring A team of biologists has discovered that the ... overlooked dynamic between the genome of mothers and their developing progeny--and one...

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Science

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Funder Group Support Development of Financial Counseling as Free Public Service for Low-Income Residents

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10/18/2018

... launch, and sustain Financial Empowerment Centers for their residents. Nine new local governments (Atlanta, GA; ... launch, and sustain Financial Empowerment Centers for their residents. First piloted in New...

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Wells Fargo Private Bank - Philanthropic Services

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Economic Security

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

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10/24/2018

... guide your hand to write backward. MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its ... improves overall performance, the researchers report in their study, which appears in...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

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11/09/2018

... for more mature tumor cells to survive when they don’t have enough nutrients,” says Shaw, director of the Salk ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

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11/15/2018

... the data to help communities develop approaches that have the potential to increase opportunity and improve ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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18 Apr 2019

Impact Investing: Dipping Your Toes or Going All In- A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... for foundations and donor advised funds that seek to align their investments with their grantmaking mission. An increasing number of giving ... and share perspectives and examples from families who ...

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