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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people directly ... we've launched the Healthier World Innovation Challenge, a new $4.5 million initiative...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $8.7 Million for T1D Research Program

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03/30/2015

... programs designed to improve clinical care and translate new therapeutics; and cultivate new funding sources to ensure the program’s sustainability. ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project

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04/16/2015

... Foundation on Wednesday pledged $75 million as part of its new initiative to use renewable energy based mini-grids not ... 1,000 villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but also create new jobs by providing...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... cohort of its Incubator Project– one of several new programs within the Foundation’s Brooklyn Accelerator, ... advantage of one year of free co-working space in BCF’s new headquarters at 1000 Dean Street, as...

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Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty

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08/12/2015

... is stark in most major metropolitan areas, according to new data analyzed by Rutgers University's Paul Jargowsky in a new report for the Century Foundation.... Century .....

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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

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10/07/2015

... over the past two decades. Her best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness ... will continue her advocacy efforts while working on a new book that addresses the...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less costly under projects that are ... 33 percent less than previous offshore wind contracts in New England by 2023. That...

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Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy

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05/12/2016

... Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses. That means room for new people to receive investment. For the leaders of large ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare

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05/25/2016

... are getting healthcare they couldn’t previously get, a new nationwide survey indicates. And consumers are broadly satisfied with the new coverage, despite some cost challenges and an ongoing ...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... Sage Foundation. Jones-Correa and McCann used a new survey, the Latino Immigrant National Election ... analysis from other leading scholars, are contained the new edition of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation...

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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test

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07/18/2016

... Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for ... popular mHealth apps are basically useless, according to a new study out of the...

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NYCT, Jonas Center, John A. Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs

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07/20/2016

... the Affordable Care Act. The BLS notes that the supply of new nurses entering the labor market has increased in recent ... RNs who are retiring will create opportunities for many new nurses. .. NYCT, Jonas...

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Carnegie Corporation Names Robert Rosenthal Director of Information Technology

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08/01/2016

... all aspects of IT, including: selection and deployment of new applications; oversight and upgrades of systems; ... management; support of the design and implementation of a new website and intranet; and...

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

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10/11/2016

... we wanted to be catalytic—to take risks to prove new models, so that larger funders with less risk tolerance ... adopt them, too. We focused most of our funding on seeding new organizations and pilots in the...

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

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10/06/2016

... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...

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Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines

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10/25/2016

... former secretary of state will help people like them, a new GenForward poll shows. Clinton’s largest advantage is ... how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation... Supported by Ford...

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Civic Engagement

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Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education

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11/08/2016

... Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education Four new Jewish learning agencies – Builders of Jewish ... Jewish Education. The expansion coincides with Shinui’s new partnership with The William Davidson...

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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02/16/2017

... George Suttles joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new program office. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan ... health systems. The foundation is also keeping abreast of new innovations in health...

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