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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

... the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA' s Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program ... research that has been shown to reduce the number of new type 2 diabetes cases...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a ... jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’ s group is a thrilling one:...

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Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology

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06/17/2015

... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years. These foundations ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Sloan Foundation Back Data Science Collaboration

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07/08/2015

... and interactive. Think Google Drive with a brain. The new funding comes from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

... undergraduate curricular initiatives including UMD’ s First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) program, a new initiative to expose first-year undergraduates to rich ...

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To Boost Job Prospects, Younger Americans Seek Dentures

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08/10/2015

... need has spurred oral care professionals to respond with new ways to make dentures quickly and inexpensively to help ...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... by the court to commission artwork to decorate its new building. At the time, some asked whether it was right to ...

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... charter schools or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund, that support charter schools.... ...

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Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda

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09/02/2015

... and Sexuality in Western Uganda Globally, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 274,000 deaths due to ...

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the director of Harvard University' s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American ... Calif. but will also have a Washington office. And it' s coming on the scene...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson ... Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fund much of the U. S . government’ s...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

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09/23/2015

... Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts Some of the world’ s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term ... its modest origins on American college campuses. The new members include Johnson &...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

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09/24/2015

The Century Foundation Examines Russia' s Syrian Conflict Strategy Russian President Vladimir ... 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of new Russian troops and military equipment to Syria...

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Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women

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09/28/2015

... of one million women by 2020 by expanding the company’ s award-winning life-skills education program, Gap Inc. ... to continue scaling the P.A.C.E. program within Gap Inc.’ s global supply chain and in...

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

... the American Express Foundation is starting an ambitious new digital effort to train aspiring charity executives. ... launch Leaderosity , a website that builds on a decade’ s worth of work to offer...

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

... Today, the National League of Cities (NLC) is launching a new initiative in partnership with MetLife Foundation to help ...

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... financial institutions can help solve some of the world’ s social problems. Over the past decade, there has been ... as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach to funding the...

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

Release Date:

12/07/2015

... news that UnitedHealth Group is considering leaving the new health insurance marketplaces established under the ... the their long-term viability. But UnitedHealth Group' s possible departure is not...

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... that will apply behavioral economics to identify new ways to help millions of Americans improve their saving ... and spending habits. The Lab will be managed by Duke’ s Center for Advanced Hindsight, which is...

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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

A "resilience bond", a variation on a catastrophe bond, could help cities deal more effectively with climate change-related disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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