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Add the “A” and It’s Full STEAM Ahead for Girls

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10/30/2015

Add the “A” and It’ s Full STEAM Ahead for Girls By Jamie Mittelman, Manager, AOL ... world is a sum of its parts. It is here that the girls are all a part of something much greater.” The camp is a ... AOL...

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Verizon Foundation to Match Employee Contributions to Nepal Relief Efforts

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04/28/2015

... The second largest cellular service provider is waiving all fees for calls and multimedia texts between the U. S . and Nepal from April 25 until May 31 to show its support ... money to the affected areas,...

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Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial

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05/01/2015

Commonwealth Fund' s Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial ... critical health data is already digitized. Pretty soon, all that information will be stored in the cloud in personal .....

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... it yet. To be fair, philanthropy needs to step up it' s game on climate across the board. Our investment is woeful -- only 2 percent of all philanthropic funds are devoted to transitioning to a .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

... doctor to treat my son? Will I ever return home? Among all these heartwrenching unknowns, there is one unavoidable ... year, but the country continues to have one of the world' s largest internally...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... in the video may be extreme, but they are not isolated. All across America, schools predominantly serving students of ... seem designed to prepare students for lives in jail. We've all heard the stories:...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

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03/15/2016

... our planet and protect profits. By 2050, the earth’ s population will have swelled to an estimated 9.7 billion ... people. According to Rockefeller Foundation research, all the food that never makes it from...

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

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04/17/2017

... Investigation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all -volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more ... of the Panama Papers. Established in 1999, the all -volunteer Foundation oversees more than...

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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

Schott Foundation' s Jackson Declares"Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect ... with residue from conditions of neglected communities, all of which create systemic barriers to their academic and ... ...

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

... ACA expanded Medicaid coverage in participating states to all nonelderly adults with incomes below 133 percent of the ... access to employment-based insurance. Since the ACA’ s first open enrollment period in...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

The Army Infantry’ s First Women The Army has sought to play down the ... the steamy woods from those of earlier generations. That’ s just how the Army wants it. After the Obama ... administration ordered the...

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... public and private partnerships: it will cost money. All told, the estimate is in the trillions, which neither ... improvement committed $22.1 billion to 8,000 investments. All told, the emerging industry,...

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

... rose continuously over the past three decades. Yet the U. S . population has poorer health than other countries. Life ... as the baby boom population ages, more people in the U. S .—and all...

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

... Angeles, began collecting data from over 3,000 people from all income and education levels who work or have worked in all types of jobs. What they discovered about how we work may ...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like CVDs, cancer, and diabetes represent about 70 percent of all deaths worldwide, with 80 percent of...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

... tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places where ... is one major funder we've written about often that' s a leader in this area. It'...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... hear a lot about the lack of diversity in philanthropy’ s upper leadership, and also about the lack of support to ... headed by women and people of color. Well, here’ s one funder that’ s...

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

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10/10/2017

... outcomes of children at the global scale. “Looking at all of these diverse households in all these different countries, we find the healthier your ... fatal disease,” says Taylor Ricketts of UVM’ s...

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... courage. We will continue to speak up alongside you until all perpetrators of harassment and assault are held responsible for their actions. “Today’ s election is an important step forward for our country and...

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... youth, the challenges they face, and how people of all ages can collectively enable transformational change. ... youth to clamor for transformative change—if it’ s harnessed productively. 2. Young people are...

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