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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... Bathrooms With so much media focus on North Carolina‘ s anti-transgender bathroom law, LGBT advocates may be ... trying to live authentically in their true gender. A new report reveals transgender women and...

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Gender Justice

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... of the space station including the air. Based on NASA' s data, more than 200 astronauts had already crossed the "threshold" to the ISS to perform vital research. All of the mission is connected...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

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11/01/2016

... he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be ... Zero Point Zero Production, the team behind Bourdain' s PBS series "...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

Newman' s Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board Newman' s Own ... academic quality, finances, and fundraising have all improved. New academic programs were added...

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Food Systems

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Six Recommendations for Shifting Philanthropy Forward

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11/28/2016

... In the wake of the elections, philanthropy faces a new future. This is always true when a new administration ... in which we give and invest are shifting, and we all need to shift with them...

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Insights

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... American woman who has lived there for sixty years. All were there to answer the key question, “What is our ... from...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... Poverty Fix one city and you may change the world. After all , more people than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’ s population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor' s Office in a Quest for Better Health Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy ... funding addresses the need to improve...

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

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03/29/2017

... and vacant land into useful community assets. The all -volunteer organization will debut a new recreational space and water harvesting cistern this ... TerraCycle®, and Target Corporation. The organization’...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative

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04/04/2017

Thousands of People With Autism Join Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative Autism has a strong genetic component. To ... a least an additional 300 are involved. But to identify all the genes at play, many...

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In Memory of Former Century Foundation President Janice Nittoli

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07/03/2017

... Century Foundation from 2011 to 2014 and was much loved by all of us here at TCF. Janice was a warm and passionate ... and more dynamic public policy presence, recruiting new fellows, stabilizing the endowment...

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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 ... life- and cost-saving interventions, according to the new WHO report on the global tobacco...

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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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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

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

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... had been convinced the providers would renew. After all , they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration took over, it became clear the ... more on top of things. In...

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The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... Volunteering ver the past decade, businesses of all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. In ... as corporate giving and volunteer programs, as well as new efforts such as impact investing and...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... forces traditionally dictate developmental agendas that, all too...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... and those undertaking longer journeys. Most vulnerable of all are those who, like Mohammad, come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

Study: Giving Leads to Happiness The adage says it’ s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The ... there may be some biological truth to the maxim after all . The study showed that generosity changed...

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