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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the ... elation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a new grant program — the Doris Duke...

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Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

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05/05/2016

... more ownership of companies to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the ... close look, and published a report called Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the...

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13 Oct 2016

Why is Wage Theft on the Rise as the Minimum Wage Increases to $15?

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... more difficult, yet more urgent than ever. Explore: How we can reverse the effects of wage theft How we can level ... & Workers Association Terri Gerstein , Labor Bureau Chief, New York...

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Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

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07/21/2016

... inception, both donors and the larger public have debated how individuals can deploy their accumulated wealth to serve ... Age, marked by the accumulation of vast fortunes and a new generation of donors who...

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals

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09/23/2016

... the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health ... the U.S. You can now learn all about the findings in two new Commonwealth Fund reports, our...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation Accepting Proposals for LGBTQ Youth Services

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10/07/2016

... challenges to service provision for LGBTQ youth in New York City in unique and novel ways. One-year ... October 20th, 2016. For more on eligibility and how to apply, please download the Request for Proposal...

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Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

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04/07/2017

... along with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and coders at Cast Iron Coding, have since 2015 ... rethink the procedures of scholarly publishing, including how to better serve authors whose...

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

... segregation. Now, a Penn State researcher is looking at how student assignment policies may be impacting the ... Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of school choice...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

Release Date:

06/23/2017

... which is publicly available online, relies on estimating how much carbon-dioxide pollution is avoided as buyers want ... year to a record $123 billion, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecast.....

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MetLife Foundation Noted Among Funders of Arts and Justice Initiative

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund as Exhibit A in how legacy institutions can appeal to donors increasingly ... to be held in September in Los Angeles and in March in New York City. . . MetLife...

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Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

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08/30/2017

Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling The “why” and “ how ” behind a product have become as important as the product itself, according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. ...

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Food Systems

LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

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09/06/2017

... icon Bayard Rustin. There's his 1987 obituary in The New York Times, which avoids any mention of his sexual ... with Rustin's longtime partner, Walter Naegle, detailing how , in the absence of any...

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Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

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09/12/2017

... will help add knowledge in this vital field of how the brain deals with addiction. By teaming together, researchers and clinicians hope to discover new treatments and better tailor existing treatments to ...

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Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation

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09/13/2017

... Investigation Brushing aside objections by ExxonMobil, New York's highest court has opened the door for state ... change and whether its auditors had any concerns about how it disclosed those risks to...

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

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09/13/2017

... Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new , hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... policymakers have tried to reduce costs by tinkering with how care is delivered. But...

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Food Systems

Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... several hours of PowerPoint presentations, trying to grasp how Congress works and wrestling with some of the thorniest ... Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New York City nonprofit was...

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Food Systems

The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

... the causes of pain, as well as pain management and how to translate that research into new therapies. The Mayday Fund, which supports projects to ...

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