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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

Release Date:

08/03/2016

... has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is ... the Hudson in many ways. "We see sea level rising; we see more intense storms," he...

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Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... Agencies When the federal government stopped guaranteeing new bank-based student loans on June 30, 2010, it left behind ... mirror, what should happen with the endowments of more than $5 billion they have...

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Education

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Atlantic Philanthropies Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund There’s a new , deep-pocketed liberal donor in town. It’s called the ... from the Atlantic Philanthropies, which has given away more than $7 billion since its creation...

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Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success

Release Date:

03/01/2017

... potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag ... academic subjects at the appropriate grade level, says a new report from the National...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Supported by Greenwall Foundation, Study Finds Two-Thirds Of Americans See Docs Who Got Paid By Drug Companies

Release Date:

03/07/2017

... companies, but most have no clue about it, according to a new Drexel University study. About 65 percent of those ... from pharmaceutical or medical device companies. What’s more : Only 5 percent of those...

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Health

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, ...

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Health

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... international expansion, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue ... nonprofit’s charitable status would make it easier for more organizations and private individuals...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new , hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... fires by focusing on firefighters and fire stations. A more natural question should be:...

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Food Systems

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was ... trails the mean one-year return of 12.7 percent for more than 400 institutions tracked by...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... what questions to ask and how to ask them is sometimes more important than the eventual answers.” When it comes to new products and services, this design-based approach is ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... Study Finds If it feels like you're constantly paying more to withdraw your own money from an ATM not affiliated ... are up a staggering 55 percent, Bankrate.com says. And New Yorkers have it worse than...

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Economic Security

04 Feb 2020

Australia’s Summer Bushfires: From Root Causes to Opportunities for Support - A Webinar Hosted by AEGN and EGA

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 -

4:30pm to 6:00pm

... summer of bushfires is an ecological, social and economic catastrophe. These unprecedented fires in both their ... disappear and many species are closer to extinction The economic costs are in the billions And...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2018 Clinical Scientist Development Award Recipients

Release Date:

08/06/2018

... a roughly equal percentage of applications from men and women , following an internal review of the program that recommended the application process be made more gender-neutral. The final pool of grantees...

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Sampriti Ganguli, CEO of Arabella Advisors, Joins Denver Frederick on The Answer WNYM

Release Date:

02/24/2020

... range of services possible under one roof. There are a lot more services now than when he first had that thought. So ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arabella Advisors

24 Sep 2015

Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits

Thursday, September 24, 2015 -

9:00am to 12:15pm

... had 1,000 followers in March, you could expect to gain 19 new followers in April.) What do these statistics mean for ... in campaigns. Take full advantage of PNY’s new conference facilities with your choice of...

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Rico Blancaflor

... refine and enhance our Public Policy Fellowship, build new opportunities for our members to experience our Policy ...

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker On His First Six Months

Release Date:

06/09/2014

... role in solving social problems, institution building and his vision for the future of the foundation. ... so far as president, Ford, talks about plans for a new philanthropy program and discusses the role...