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UU Veatch's Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP's Board of Directors

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09/25/2015

... Hafid is responsible for managing the organization’ s program and leadership within the broader philanthropic ... Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. UU Veatch' s Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP'...

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John A. Hartford Foundation: 'Hospital at Home' Prevents Complications

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10/13/2015

The shift to value-based care could lead to expanded hospital-level acute care in patients' homes.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

... launch Leaderosity , a website that builds on a decade’ s worth of work to offer professional development for ...

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

The National League of Cities is launching a new initiative in partnership with MetLife Foundation to help cities promote financial inclusion for their residents.

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Economic Security

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’ s Menu Choices To parents of picky eaters across the ... restaurant chain made healthy changes to its children' s menu. The team then followed up to measure...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Verizon Foundation Supports National Survey of Americans’ Health App Use

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11/04/2015

Are fitness apps the magic bullet to health? While fitness and other health-related smartphone apps are acquired in large numbers by Americans, many are left unused by those who download them.

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Technology

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... financial institutions can help solve some of the world’ s social problems. Over the past decade, there has been ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’ s ‘Food Deserts’ When Sade Bennett started working in ... community. She has learned how to grow produce, cook it in the healthiest manner, and along the...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... and spending habits. The Lab will be managed by Duke’ s Center for Advanced Hindsight, which is headed by Dan ... of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at the university. It will partner directly with banks,...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change

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12/09/2015

... still only going to get part of the way there and there’ s still going to be a big gap to fill.” Such a statement ... among liberals and greens was summed up in Al Gore’ s oft-repeated dictum that “we have...

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

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01/11/2016

... years," said Inder Verma, professor in the Salk Institute' s Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’ s Economy We believe every young person deserves a pathway to economic success. That’ s why we’re announcing a new $75 million investment to...

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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

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02/01/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies, in its last year of grantmaking, announced a number of major investments to improve access to quality health care for people in both Southeast Asia and the United States.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Protein Structure That Shows How Viruses Take Over Cells

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02/29/2016

... not only for treating diseases like HIV, but also for improving gene therapy methods to deliver new DNA to patients ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

... very big checks. So, in late 2015, when Jon Stryker’ s Arcus Foundation and Jennifer and Peter Buffett’ s Novo Foundation announced a $20 million big bet on the ... to change pervasive attitudes toward one of...

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

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03/21/2016

Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’ s Women’ s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’ s Women’ s Leadership Council’ s held it...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough

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03/24/2016

Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough “We are improving security at our nuclear facilities,” President ... on the outside of the storage building, and defaced it with paint and human blood. They remained...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence' s high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city' s youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could take .....

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Launches Initiative to Protect Refugee Children in Greece

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03/29/2016

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, in partnership with the European Programme for Integration and Migration, is launching a grant initiative to support nongovernmental organizations working to protect refugee children arriving in Greece.

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