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Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies

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In A Shift In Giving, JPMorgan Chase Focusing On Economic Growth

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07/13/2014

... this shift is taking place rapidly, calling the bank' s grantmaking over the past six months "dizzying." ... million to help revitalize Detroit and $30 million for a new "lab" that...

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Comparing Spending Down and Perpetuity - Should Charity Go on Forever?

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10/09/2014

... give away all its money--seeded by almost Feeney’ s entire fortune, which was worth about $4 billion when he ... all his wealth, he became an early, outsized example of a new breed of philanthropist, a...

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Restoring and Extending Tax Incentives

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11/17/2014

... to give themselves more leverage for changes when the new Congress convenes in January. Restoring and ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Profiled in Rolling Stone

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01/16/2015

... also "an economic reason for divestment," Wayne says. RBF' s business is philanthropy. It was determined not to damage ... have concerns. One of the primary assets on an oil company' s...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

... rates of young women as compared to similarly aged men. New research led by the Yale School of Public Health, and ... findings included the following: The women’ s initial symptoms varied widely in both nature...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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The Atlantic Philanthropies Welcomes Bruce Trachtenberg as Executive Producer and Editor

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05/08/2015

... as Executive Producer and Editor In his new role, Trachtenberg will work closely with ... be useful to funders and grantees. “With Atlantic’ s final days on the horizon, our communications efforts are ... for...

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Arts

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Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn' s & Colitis Foundation The grant will be used to establish ... clinical information about more than forty thousand Crohn' s and colitis patients, along...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes

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07/30/2015

... maid of honor was not a relative or friend of the bride’ s . Instead, it was Jane Forbes Clark, chairwoman of the Hall ... Palmer said: “She seized the plans by the throat. It’ s what she does.” The Hall of...

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Morgan Stanley Helps Address Housing, Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C.

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07/30/2015

... Health and Employment Needs in Washington D.C. A new development breaking ground today in the nation' s capital is a model for integrating housing, health care, ... building the $90 million Conway Center...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

... that has persisted since the civil rights era. A new report, Charters without Borders: Using Inter-district ... this issue of inter-district segregation. The report’ s author, The Century Foundation education...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... towards math to their students’ math performance. These new findings demonstrate that structured, positive ... between parents’ uneasiness about math and children’ s low math achievement. To read the full...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

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10/20/2015

... laws, and stronger enforcement of those laws. That’ s why, since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working ... that together account for more than half of the world’ s road deaths. Last year, we expanded...

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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

... City Block by City Block In America today, a person’ s ability to lead a long, healthy life is so impacted by where they live that it’ s startling. You don’t need to travel to a developing ... how long the...

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... Dr. William R. Hite, Jr., and The Trust for Public Land’ s Jeff Danter, Senior Vice President and Atlantic Seaboard ... Division Director, announced the expansion of the City’ s innovative Green2015...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40's Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit

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11/25/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies: What C40' s Report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, Means to Paris Climate Summit C40’ s new report, Climate Action in Megacities 3.0, contains .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using CRISPR/Cas9, a new gene-editing technology. The technique is so precise it ... the...

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Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students

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02/12/2016

Gould Foundation’ s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on ... Most nights, he put himself to sleep reading books like New Problems in Euclidean Geometry and An Introduction to Diophantine...

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Children, Youth and Families

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