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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

... Money Foundations make up a big part—about a sixth—of all the charitable giving that happens in the U. S . But some would argue that their biggest impact comes not ... foundations receive is for the grants they...

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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

... achievable goal: to halve death and disability from all types of pollution by 2030. Together, the group set out ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... of them work with outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development, marketing and back-office management of the programs. That' s even true of Harvard University, which announced a .....

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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

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08/11/2017

... people to connect with, celebrate and support America’ s national parks and community-based programs, including ... is also a partner of SCA, supporting the organization’ s Find Your Park volunteering events...

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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’ s best teams. As his team’ s No. 1 man, Juan had to tee off in the first group, in front ... eventually, the match, just as he had every other match...

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Children, Youth and Families

Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United States. Establishing a ... Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U. S . These efforts have...

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Family of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department

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08/30/2017

... enclave of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Leo has lived all his life, he has encountered far less resistance than he ...

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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

... In The Fight Against Islamophobia In Illinois, a mother’ s heartache over her daughter’ s autism led to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with ... that counters ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And...

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Raising Money from the Modern Family

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09/06/2017

... communications director says. Still, for all the friends and acquaintances Ms. Fleishman has made ...

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More Than 10 Million Children Live In Caribbean Countries Threatened By Hurricane Irma

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09/07/2017

... Hurricane Irma, UNICEF warned today. Based on the storm' s current trajectory, children in the islands of the Eastern ... severe levels of destruction. Our priority is to reach all those children and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’s Health Insurance System

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09/11/2017

Opinion: A Bipartisan Approach to Stabilizing Our Nation’ s Health Insurance System As recently as late July, Congress ... Democrats in Congress are working together on something all sides can agree upon:...

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’ s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid The clock is ticking. Community ... until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the...

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Community Development

Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... injuries that led to infections. Antibiotics changed all that and yet, as McKenna details, we’re on the verge of ... to have created an action plan in 2015. It’ s also common enough that many parents now think...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... by more than 20%, which is essential to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030 (SDG 1). To help fill ...

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Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

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09/20/2017

... Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women' s History Museum Of all the excuses given for why a statue of three suffragettes ... It had been donated to the country by the National Women...

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In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

In Diller Island’ s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence Just like ... the plug, withdrawing his and Diane von Furstenberg’ s funding for the project. The costs and controversy had ... lawsuits, dueling...

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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them

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09/22/2017

... $390 billion awarded to charities last year. The lion’ s share was from high net worth individuals, an estimated 91% ... sharp contrasts: Boomers, gen-Xers, and millennials are all prioritizing how they give a...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... proposed solution. Any pathway to social change requires all three. Agitation without innovation means complaints ...

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Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

... participating in Day Without a Woman and the Women' s March. In record numbers, more and more of us are becoming ... meeting with representatives of hundreds of other women' s foundations at the...

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... 90,000 students from 15 countries on 6 continents ( all health professions schools around the world are invited ... in the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University' s Mailman School of Public...

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