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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

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07/17/2014

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help connect poor Americans with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Facilitates Clinical Research with $8.7 Million in Grants

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07/14/2015

The foundation has awarded $8.7 million to 18 physician-scientists to reserve 75 percent of their time for independent research.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

Up to Us, a non-partisan program sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact, aims to empower students to raise awareness about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/22/2016

The program provides funding to physician-scientists who are one to five years into their first faculty appointment to support their transitions to independent research careers.

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Difficulties Accessing Medical Records Will Soon Be Outdated, Says Commonwealth Fund

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10/21/2016

... as medical culture embraces more transparency and patient engagement , she said. Most electronic health records now have ...

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Commonwealth Fund Contemplates Mobile Health Apps for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

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12/07/2016

For the roughly half of all Americans with chronic health problems, there are more than 165,000 mobile health apps designed to help them deal with a wide range of illnesses and conditions.

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

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02/13/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies has focused heavily on governance and innovation, with a big focus on data, evidence-based programs, and leadership development.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary

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03/01/2017

Even as we shake our heads over the changing weather, or moan about the fumes belched from the vehicles in our cities, climate change still feels a distant problem.

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Giving Parents a Prominent Voice in Schools

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03/08/2017

... Voice in Schools Trise Moore, who is in charge of family engagement in Washington state’s Federal Way school ...

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Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments

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04/05/2017

Ford Foundation announces that its Board of Trustees has authorized the allocation of up to $1 billion of its endowment, phased in over ten years, for mission-related investments (MRIs).  

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

Now in its eighth year, the MSPP has welcomed roughly 60 high school students into its 2017 class, hailing from Hempstead, Uniondale and schools in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Beginning with a June 30 opening ceremony at Hempstead’s School of...

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A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO

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07/18/2017

We are on the cusp of philanthropy’s next big wave. The charitable sector is no longer limited to just giving grants to organizations and wishing them well.

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