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Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

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10/21/2016

Kalief Browder' s Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail Three thousand ... pay for what it did to her son, fell victim to it herself. All because they couldn’t raise the $3,000 bond... Kalief Browder...

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Justice Reform

Nathan Cummings Foundation Launches 2017 Fellowship Program

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11/04/2016

... willingness to disrupt entrenched systems and take risks. All proposed projects must relate to at least one of the ... should align with at least one of the Foundation’ s four focus areas within these two...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the attention—foundations like Gates...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

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12/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating ... water three times a year, its hunger devours a third of all of Earth’ s food, and its breath emits greenhouse...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Commonwealth Fund Contemplates Mobile Health Apps for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

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12/07/2016

... Patients with Chronic Illnesses For the roughly half of all Americans with chronic health problems, there are more ... published an article on mobile health apps in this month’ s Health Affairs... Commonwealth...

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January 11 Is Deadline to Submit a Letter of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants

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12/14/2016

... ways that benefit youth. The application process for all research grants begins with a letter of inquiry. Letters ...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize

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01/10/2017

... its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’ s thriving nonprofit sector. Each of the five Spark Prize ... committee of civic, business, and neighborhood leaders all hailing from Brooklyn. The Spark...

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Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary

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03/01/2017

... cities, climate change still feels a distant problem. That' s partly because the solution seems to lie with governments ... Foundations to help the media better report on (and for all of us to better...

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

... Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations. At the ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

... groups say the current debate on Capitol Hill lacks an all -out push like the one progressive foundations made when ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

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04/18/2017

... Skating to Success in Harlem One of the PIMCO Foundation’ s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which ... Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” We combine our...

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Gender Justice

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... including support for refugees, on their societies. And it' s not just those on the fringes, but elected officials who are attributing all manner of sins to Soros, a political strategy that seems ... that...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Commonwealth Fund’s President, David Blumenthal, Named 2017 Recipient Of The Health Services Research Prize

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05/23/2017

Commonwealth Fund’ s President, David Blumenthal, Named 2017 Recipient Of The ... delivery. The contributions of Dr. Blumenthal reflect all three of these areas. An independent committee of past ... in Health...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"

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05/31/2017

... decided over three decades ago to transfer virtually all his personal fortune to what would become The Atlantic ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

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06/14/2017

... Employment Consequences for States On May 24, 2017, the U. S . House of Representatives passed the American Health Care ... Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. The U. S . Senate is currently...

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More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

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07/28/2017

... July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’ s namesake cohort — most of which have survived local ... last week was the first since the Trump administration’ s decision to pull the United States out...

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Environment and Climate Change

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How to Build a Strong Local Food System

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08/29/2017

... unheard of to truck vegetables from Florida or California all year round in order to feed hungry people in the central U. S . Over the past half-century, however, a more nationalized ... Towns, agricultural...

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Food Systems

Opinion: Nonprofits Have a Big Stake in Overtime-Rules Debate

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09/05/2017

... employees comes up in Washington, business groups do all they can to show how their interests are in line with ... for fair employment standards while they often face what’ s become known as "operational...

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