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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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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor, has agreed to donate...

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Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans

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04/14/2016

... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support ... Foundation, announced the campaign Monday night at the New World Center in Miami Beach...

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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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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

... support and promote many LGBTQ organizations and issues in New York. PAPER, in collaboration with American Express, ... about Stonewall's plans for the future, his hopes for New York, and why he's so...

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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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Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition

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07/14/2016

... conversion of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in New York into a hub for the girls’ and women’s rights ... decades, the girls’ and women’s rights community in New York has wanted a physical home where...

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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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NYS Health Foundation President & CEO Wonders if NY Can End the AIDS Epidemic

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07/18/2016

... AIDS Epidemic In July 1981—35 years ago this month—The New York Times ran a now infamous headline: “Rare Cancer ... It was the first news article about a mysterious new disease that came to be the HIV/AIDS...

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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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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

... school, seeing them as the quickest route to jobs. A new study finds the streamlined, focused curriculum that ... is also the reason many poor students drop out, however. A new study of 150 black youths from...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation Seeks Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks

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09/23/2016

... Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks The Carnegie Corporation of New York, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. ... up by government and industry. Projects should demonstrate new approaches to existing...

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Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

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09/27/2016

... "Girls Who Code" summer Immersion program offered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Makhdoom, Bryant, ... and Cohen were among 40 young women from throughout New Jersey who...

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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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