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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans a $50 million challenge to the N.R.A., reports the New York Times.

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Bloggers Falsely Accuse JPMorgan Chase of Employee "LGBT Loyalty Test"

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07/07/2014

JPMorgan Chase appears to be the victim of right wing bloggers who have been making erroneous posts alleging the bank requires its employees to take an "LGBT loyalty" test.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues

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08/20/2014

... Memphis, and New Orleans. “Mayors everywhere are focused on innovation – and, increasingly, on the tools and approaches they need to make it the norm rather than the exception in city halls,” ...

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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91

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08/27/2014

... by providing access to education and experiences that make for a richer, more forward-reaching life.... Virginia ...

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Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

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11/03/2014

... Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’ s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began ... speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’ s philanthropic vanguard. After a...

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Foundation to Move Funds to Detroit Pensions

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11/12/2014

... will millions in private dollars in the "grand bargain" make its way into the city' s public pension system? That' s the charge of the Foundation For Detroit'...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Stem Cell Research

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12/18/2014

... James Funderburgh said. Implanting the patient' s own stem cells, extracted from the patient' s healthy eye, initiated regeneration of healthy corneal .....

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Simons Foundation Initiative Provides Support for Early Career Scientists

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03/25/2015

... years to promising scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field. This is the first ... to $400,000 per year for direct costs. The awardee’ s institution will be given an...

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Ford Foundation Provides $500 Thousand for Relief Efforts in Nepal

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04/30/2015

... has supported development work for over 60 years. "We are deeply concerned for the well-being of millions of .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Century Foundation Releases Report on NYC Universal Pre-K

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05/13/2015

... on NYC Universal Pre-K Lessons from New York City’ s Universal Pre-K Expansion: How a Focus on Diversity Could Make It Even Better is a study in two parts. The first ... policy, outlines the main features of...

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Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U.S. Higher Education System

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06/03/2015

Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U. S . Higher Education System As presidential candidates ... declare why they seek to be elected in 2016, they are promising jobs, growth, and a better future. With...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America' s Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public ... Library of America brings together the riches of America’ s libraries, archives and...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Facilitates Clinical Research with $8.7 Million in Grants

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07/14/2015

... $8.7 million to help eighteen physician-scientists make the transition to clinical research. The foundation' s Clinical Scientist Development Awards program enables ... clinical research. This year...

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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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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery

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08/25/2015

... & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery U. S . jeweler Tiffany & Co. is making a lasting impression on ... hometown of New York with the opening of its foundation’ s Woodland Gardens in The...

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Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport

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08/27/2015

... event on Wednesday, Arabu noted that this is despite Kenya' s semi-formal transport sector. "Nairobi joins more that ... as yet has no traffic information and the time schedules are tentative,"...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Tiffany & Co.’s Costa on Huffington Post: Oceans Face Dire Threats

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10/16/2015

Tiffany & Co.’ s Costa on Huffington Post: Oceans Face Dire Threats In ... explorer Sylvia Earle titled her book The World Is Blue to make a point: Without our oceans, there is no life. "No blue, ... our...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

How America’ s Immigrant Source has Changed Nearly 59 million ... United States since 1965, making this nation the world’ s top destination for people moving from one country to ... Mexico, which shares a nearly 2...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

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10/26/2015

... QA Want to know more about the Ford Foundation’ s new focus on inequality? Have questions about how we’re ... questions in advance by posting them on the Chronicle’ s Facebook page. Darren Walker, President of...

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