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Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy

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09/25/2017

... Friday he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to sell 35 million to 75 million shares of Facebook stock in the next 18 months to pay ...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... one. War and political turmoil have brought more than one million Syrians to this tiny Mediterranean nation. These ... approximately 1 in 4 persons of the country’s 4.4 million is now a refugee. . . Applying...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... in this space. Groundswell says it has given over $20 million to fund the reproductive justice movement. Across all of its programs, Groundswell is awarding $7.4 million this year. In addition to its growth as...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... on how human nature affects markets. Thaler won the $1.1- million prize for “understanding the psychology of ... When the New York Times asked him how he would spend the 9- million -kronor prize money, Thaler...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... District 23 in Brownsville, at an operating cost of $36 million . Once all eight districts are running at full capacity in 2022, the operating cost will be $180 million annually, officials said... City to...

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

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11/17/2017

... Grants Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation ... and announced today that it will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... "Soros Plan" — including the resettlement of "at least a million immigrants from Africa and the Middle East annually ... and a requirement that every EU member state pay 9 million Hungarian...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Partners with Lumina Foundation to Address Racism on College Campuses

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12/11/2017

... The Lumina Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of community-building efforts designed to ... with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to invest $1 million in a national study of the...

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

Release Date:

12/13/2017

... of millions of dollars into autism research—seventy-five million dollars this year alone... Jim Simons, the Numbers ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 million gift from Michael Bloomberg's Bloomberg ... last year. Earlier this month, came word of a new $45 million infusion to the center from a...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Continues Commitment to Great Barrier Reef Conservation Efforts

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07/17/2018

... announced today that it has committed approximately $1.4 million AUD ($1 million USD) to help protect and restore Australia’s Great ...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

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11/07/2018

... indoor oceanic exhibit in the United States with nearly 24 million liters (6.3 million gallons) of constituted sea water. The researchers ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Communities Thrive Challenge Grantees

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12/05/2018

... names of the 10 organizations that will each receive a $1 million grant as part of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a ... of 2018, the Communities Thrive Challenge promised $1 million grants to organizations...

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Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation Award 16 Jewish Camps With Grants to Increase Accessibility

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04/01/2019

... staff with disabilities. The grants are part of the $12 million Yashar Initiative, a program of the Foundation for ... improvements, as well as a program grant totaling $2.5 million for the first round of the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... philanthropic organization Salesforce.org in a $300 million all-cash deal. The deal , announced today, will see ... corporation to a business corporation, with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com...

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Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive

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07/25/2019

... approval and the closing of the sale. Acquired for $30 million as part of an auction of the assets of Johnson ... the archive includes more than four million prints and negatives and is considered to be the...

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Newman's Own Foundation Supports Nutrition Initiatives

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10/01/2019

... actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, today announced $2 million in grants have been awarded to nonprofit ... supporter of nutrition, and this year more than $1 million of the funds will be focused on...

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Serving those who served our nation

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11/10/2013

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence's Ret. Brig. Gen. William Bester and Darlene Curley contributed an op-ed to Politico on maintaining our nation's commitment to our veterans.

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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

... or in an assisted-living facility. At least 70 percent of us are going to need some form of long-term care. And 80 ...

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