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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

The USA has the most measles cases in 20 years and the most since homegrown outbreaks were eliminated in 2000, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

Health insurance premiums for people buying coverage on their own grew an average of 10 percent or more a year during the three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

A small number of companies, nonprofits and foundations–including The Rockefeller Foundation--want to see if the rapidly growing global supply chains that process data and operate call centers can be deployed to help alleviate poverty in Africa and...

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Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

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07/22/2014

Two individuals with organizations supported by both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of Change" for their efforts to ensure that no American working 40 hours a week should have...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

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09/09/2014

Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation' s Top Philanthropists Barbara Picower has resumed her role as one of the nation’ s top philanthropists, heading a new foundation with more ... billion...

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NYCT Supports South Bronx Culture Trail

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10/03/2014

... Culture Trail An arts and education center and what' s believed to be the first Puerto Rican-owned music store in ... and Dancing In The Streets to help commemorate the borough' s rich cultural...

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Why Are the Rockefellers Moving From 30 Rock?

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11/24/2014

The Rockefeller headquarters will be moving from Rockefeller Center to 49th street.

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... reach people directly where they live, work and play. That' s why we've launched the Healthier World Innovation .....

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, ... share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’ s largest data centers,” says Rob...

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NYCT-Funded Unaccompanied Minor Initiative Lauded for Helping NYC Address Immigrant Issues

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02/11/2015

... speaker with a focus on supporting and protecting the city' s immigrants. Mark-Viverito herself came to New York City .....

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U. S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct ...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... Sage Foundation Russell Sage made his wealth in America' s first Gilded Age—as a financier and railroad executive. ... to scholars across the country who've looked at today' s inequality and its...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift Gerstner to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells.

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the nation’ s second biggest philanthropy. Not only will Ford direct ... operating support to 40 percent of the foundation’ s grant-making budget, projected to be...

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

The $1.8 million grant will help Opportunity International provide services to 4200 small businesses.

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Ford Foundation Supports "The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film" Series

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09/11/2015

... for September 11-14. Obviously named after Baldwin' s 1976 book-length essay, "The Devil Finds Works," the series .....

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12 Nov 2015

Families Funding Change: How Social Justice Giving Honors Our Roots and Strengthens Communities - Webinar

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

... webinar will draw from case studies highlighted in NCRP’ s new Families Funding Change report, as well as the real ... be a unifying framework for giving – whatever a family’ s ideological diversity...

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Open Society Foundations Supports International Online Journalism Event

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02/24/2016

The Knight Center for Journalism has released its program for the 17th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), an annual conference attracting media executives, journalists and scholars from around the world.

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

The report -- titled “Looking in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit documents that were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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