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Ford Foundation Appoints Xavier de Souza Briggs as Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets

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11/01/2013

... the foundation’s senior program leadership team under new president Darren Walker. The appointments of Martín ... said Mr. Walker. “He is the ideal person to lead a new generation of accomplishment in this...

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Where Do You See Yourself In the Next Five Years?

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10/06/2016

... PNY President Ronna Brown, originally published in the New York PhilanthroPost October 2016 president’s edition. ... a survey of members who have attended programs to assess how those...

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... organizations are seeking to get them thinking about how to channel their money and other assets into ... Fidelity reported a burst of giving after introducing a new iPhone application at the end of 2012...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... Students Through College As data has made clear how many top-performing students from poor and middle-class ... a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on this front. Led by Bloomberg...

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ... Chase to provide one of the most in-depth views into how Americans’ income and spending habits...

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education to explore how its member institutions can...

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State Actions to Promote and Restrain Commercial Accountable Care Organizations: Milbank Memorial Fund Support

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10/19/2015

A new report, “State Actions to Promote and Restrain ... pricing—to providers, patients, and payers. How can state policymakers respond to their development? What ...

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... Health System for the Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower costs for “high-need, ...

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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

... and the outcome was still in doubt. Eyes are trained on New Hampshire on Feb. 9 and then South Carolina on Feb. 27 ... Anyone who believes we’ll have an indicator as to how the presidential nominating process...

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Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’

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04/18/2016

... The day of discussion arrives on the heels of a new national study in which only 29 percent of physicians surveyed reported having formal training on how to talk to patients and families about end-of-life care...

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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 ... movie will aim to shed light on the grim numbers that show how much food is...

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... to researchers at the center, the investment could lead to new treatments for people with autism spectrum disorders. To ... of DNA changes known to cause autism and investigate how variations in the wiring of...

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Century Foundation Analysis Finds Millions Could Lose Health Benefits If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA

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04/10/2017

... had been established in Title I of the ACA. Given this new focus on Title I, it is worth considering this part of the law and how delegating to states might affect health coverage in ...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they have ...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new , IBM-facilitated (NYSE: IBM) citizen science project by ... interaction with human biochemistry and determine how that interaction may contribute to...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ... not entirely controllable by any executive, no matter how good. In general, budget size...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a ... that provides paid parental or family leave. Given how good paid leave is for children,...

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NYS Health Foundation Unveils Health Care Cost Transparency Website

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09/12/2017

... good choices about when and where to receive care, and how much they might expect to pay for that care. Despite ... health care cost transparency website, will empower New Yorkers from across the State to plan...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit think ... report bears the ominous title “The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Gap is...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ... into a giant collaboration that will develop theories of how the brain works by focusing...

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