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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

... While Mayor Bill de Blasio works on the details of a 15 -year, $2.6 billion supportive housing program to address ...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... diagnosed with this type of brain tumor typically survives 15 months, if given the best care. The late Senator Ted ...

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Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?

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01/19/2016

Ultra-rich philanthropists and their foundations have increasing influence on decision-making and are setting the global health and agriculture agenda in developing countries, according to a major study.

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce at Davos that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at the dinner table.

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Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN

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02/11/2016

The Paris agreement is a recognition that the international community understands the critical importance of taking action now to mitigate or adapt to climate change, writes TCF policy associate, Neil Bhatiya.

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Mellon Funds Efforts to Bring Medieval Works to the Digital World

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02/24/2016

Lehigh, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania are leading a project, called Bibliotheca Philadelphienis, that will digitalize the largest regional collection of medieval and early modern manuscripts in the country.

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Doris Duke Foundation Supports New Website Focusing on Refugees

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03/08/2016

... hot spots around the world." And so Tuesday, March 15 , will mark the debut of Refugees Deeply, the latest in .....

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.