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McConnell Says Wife Won't Resign From Bloomberg Over Coal Policy Stance

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08/14/2014

... Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said his wife, former U. S . Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, has no plans to leave the Bloomberg Philanthropies board, despite the foundation' s support for efforts to reduce...

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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... pound in 1992, into his Open Society Foundations. It’ s now a philanthropic powerhouse that has given about $11 ...

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Public Policy

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Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality

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11/18/2014

... conversation, but public opinion polls show that it’ s not an urgent issue for most people. Americans know ... attitudes and test messages about the government’ s role in reducing inequality.... Ford...

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

... with $860 million in assets and a long history of supporting environmental causes, announced it would divest ... and then distribute a portion every year. But in today’ s world, this structure faces some...

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Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance

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05/12/2015

... justice systems across the country. Distinct to MFJ' s work is that it collects and analyzes local data on the .....

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’ s group is a thrilling one: we are honored to support them ...

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Arts

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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... changing times like a glove. But so does Mr. Walker’ s other major strategic shift: doubling Ford’ s commitment to unrestricted grants for nonprofit operating ...

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... as a chief executive fearful that the company I led would be seen as complicit in the destruction of this remarkable ... to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’ s way by the proposed Pebble...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

A new study comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely...

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Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation

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06/16/2016

... Karp, chief executive of Silicon Valley’ s Palantir Technologies Inc. Ms. Rodin praised Mr. Karp for ... disaster happens?” Mr. Karp agreed: “We think this can be transformational,” he later told her,...

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Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

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12/12/2016

... in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’ s America U. S . Syria policy had been due for a major rethink, even before Donald Trump was elected president. America’ s publicly...

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain will be based at the university' s Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X .....

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced a three-year, $3.77 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the work of the National Theater Project.

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, led by its Executive Director, Kathleen Lynch, and its projects will be carried out by collaborative, cross-disciplinary...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation ...

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’ s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid The clock is ticking. Community ... until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... gender-specific data they collect. The foundation is also supporting Equal Measures 2030, an initiative to empower ...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’ s major philanthropic priorities has long been ocean ... in funding climate change work. The tech donor’ s latest major grant is right in the sweet spot...

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

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10/13/2017

... change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’ s research, using the National Science Foundation’ s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, finds that ...

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