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Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees

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10/28/2014

... is the departing chancellor of the University of Texas System , consisting of nine universities and six health ... appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’ s Committee on the National Medal of...

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Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy

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09/29/2016

... and originally appeared in the AFN Newsletter AFN and it' s members are committed to expanding opportunity and ... that is a key role for our philanthropic sector. In AFN' s just released Strategy...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Rafael Maldonado as Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer

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12/14/2021

... role, Maldonado will be a key member of the Foundation’ s leadership team, responsible for the strategic development ... he was responsible for overseeing all of the Association’ s information systems,...

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Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/15/2014

... of Keesha Gaskins as Director of the Democratic Practice program ' s U. S . portfolio. Beginning in January 2014, Gaskins will be .....

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Nick Hodges Named COO and Senior Vice President For Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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07/09/2014

... will be responsible for oversight of the organization’ s operations, including communications, finance and ...

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The Today Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund's Carol Levine

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12/11/2014

... Show Discusses Long-Term Care with United Hospital Fund' s Carol Levine Long-term care doesn't mean just a nursing ... long-term care. And 80 percent of long-term care in the U. S . is provided by...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’ s largest data centers,” says Rob...

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

... security, Reuters and CNBC report. The office of Russia' s top prosecutor said Monday that the Open Society ... "a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and...

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Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care

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04/15/2016

... to Give End-of-Life Care Nearly all doctors believe it’ s important to talk with patients about the care they want in ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader’ s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced ... fund researchers working on ways to improve the brain’ s ability to take information...

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a $480,000 grant from the NoVo Foundation.

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Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

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07/25/2016

... to establish the Wilson Writing Academy, a comprehensive system of instruction that will shape students' writing .....

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Weighs in: What Kids Should Know by the Time They're Done With School

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08/30/2016

... beyond laws, politics, and funding and imagine a utopian system of learning. They went back to the drawing board—and ...

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Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

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10/21/2016

Kalief Browder' s Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail Three thousand ... Last Friday his mother, Venida, who was fighting for the system to pay for what it did to her son, fell victim to it ... they...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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Commonwealth Fund Publishes Report on Making Health Care Better for the High-Need Patient

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12/07/2016

... cannot—firsthand insights into how aspects of the health system and a person’ s life affect their health care experiences. Common themes ...

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Giving Parents a Prominent Voice in Schools

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03/08/2017

... is in charge of family engagement in Washington state’ s Federal Way school district, helps parents navigate the system and ensures their voices are heard in major ...

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