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Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary

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04/20/2017

April 19, 2017, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Russell Sage Foundation by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), the widow of railroad magnate and financier Russell Sage.

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

... president of the nonprofit Aetna Foundation, which each year provides funding to local stakeholders that can find new ...

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

... that (if) you’re the president,” says Anderson, a 21- year -old student from Coconut Creek, Florida. That Trump is ...

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Bloomberg Urges World Leaders Not to Follow President Donald Trump’s Lead On Climate Change

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04/24/2017

... Carl Pope. “I’m not running for office,” the 75- year -old Bloomberg said... Bloomberg Urges World Leaders Not ...

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United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... Long Island, Westchester, and New Jersey. This is the 27th year the Fund has presented Distinguished Trustee Awards. All ...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

... Foundation, which began in 2006, made a commitment last year to deploy $90 million in the service of supporting ...

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Gender Justice

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... across Europe and into the United States, with the 86- year -old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his ...

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Fast Company Names James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies 'The Most Creative Person of 2017'

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05/16/2017

Innovative leaders are changing the world through their work in tech, fashion, food, entertainment, and more. James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies, is using technology, data, and a focus on sharing to spread best practices among cities.

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... shows, generated a great deal of sadness. In 2010, one year after the official end of the recession, reported ...

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Economic Security

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

... of the globe's biggest inequalities and threats by the year 2030... IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve .....

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Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results

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06/12/2017

Two years after PropelNext, most Alumni 2015 grantees are strengthening the quality of their programs and, with growing revenues, are also expanding services to reach more youth, according to an inital assessment by the evaluation team.

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Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

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06/14/2017

Repealing certain elements of the ACA—the Medicaid expansion and premium tax credits—could lead to 2.6 million jobs lost and lower gross state products of $1.5 trillion over five years, the Commonwealth Fund reports

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

... in a market where sales will surge 30 percent this year to a record $123 billion, according to a Bloomberg New ...

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year 's end, describes philanthropy as something that's in her .....

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Bloomberg, Tiffany Support Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Communications

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08/03/2017

Richard Vevers worked in ad agencies for 10 years, then left to become an underwater photographer and ended up founding a not-for-profit organization called The Ocean Agency. His films of coral reefs are spreading the word about climate change...

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Ford Foundation Awards NABJ Grant Ahead Of Its 42nd Annual Convention And Career Fair

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08/09/2017

... funds will aide the organization to implement its multi- year strategic plan. “As we move forward with implementing ...

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The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/11/2017

The Overbrook Foundation has worked during the past few years to improve an underperforming U.S. environmental movement.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families

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08/25/2017

Sheltering Arms, Georgia’s largest nonprofit early education and child care organization, announced the opening of its newest center during a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on the campus of Barack and Michelle Obama Academy (formerly D.H. Stanton...

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