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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation' s Investment Committee The Nathan Cummings Foundation is ... announce the appointment of Lisa Green Hall to the Board’ s Investment Committee as an...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding

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04/26/2017

... Ocean conservation philanthropy is global, and it’ s local. It’ s market-based and regulatory. It’ s about blue whales and ... complex science behind the issue. This can leave small or...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs A new study, billed as the first of its kind, by the Ford ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... to say they've saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ... and other minority groups extends beyond pensions, 401(k) s or other retirement accounts. The...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new money flowing into the social sector. What' s a cause for concern, though, is that a tiny sliver of the population—which is already hugely...

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The New York Community Trust

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the endowment, and laying the ... we are today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Janice’ s family and friends on this sad day...

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Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... 12th annual donation to the group of charities. Buffett’ s gift included 18.63 million Class B shares of his company’ s stock, which carried a value of $170.25 each at the ... in the company, according to...

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

... the Visual Arts, which gives it access to much of Warhol’ s work. Flavor Paper borrows a wide variety of imagery from ... inspiration. Some papers, such as Flowers, Elvi and the new Ali, have a distinctly...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children' s Hospital suggests. The researchers say pediatricians may .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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07/12/2017

... generations of health professionals to meet society’ s health needs.” Under Dr. Thibault’ s leadership, the ... the Macy Foundation also has supported the introduction of new content (such as...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’ s population – are covered by at least one comprehensive ... 2007 when only 1 billion people, and 15% of the world’ s population, were covered. Strategies to...

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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

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, ...

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Food Systems

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... rooms for people who would be better served in treatment. New city police recruits have for years undergone some crisis ... intervention training, but a report last summer from the U. S . Department of Justice...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... notwithstanding the disparate racial impact, we need a new “economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage ...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

Rockefeller Foundation’ s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’ s WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership ... delicious out of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

Simons Foundation' s Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including ... the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public' s help is being enlisted in what' s thought to be the...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ...

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