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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, The Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away

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06/18/2014

... in 2016, it will have given away $7.5 billion to promote education , human rights, science and healthcare around the ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Laboratory Announces $50 Million Gift To Establish Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

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07/07/2014

... Biology. The Center will support research and education programs at one of the world’s leading ...

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Health

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Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies At 83

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07/08/2014

... treatment and care, the cultural arts, and higher education ." Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies .....

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All Health Care is Local: The Power of Community to Drive Improvement

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09/11/2014

... socioeconomic challenges associated with poor health—low education levels, homelessness, and mental illness—abound. ...

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SIFMA Funded Programs Provide Financial Literacy to Millions of Students

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10/02/2014

InvestWrite and the Stock Market Game, both funded by SIFMA Foundation, provide valuable education and increased mathematics proficiency.

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Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License

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02/04/2015

Open licensing will allow for transparency and accessibility.

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Technology

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Studies Impact of Volunteerism

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03/06/2015

... the results of a study by MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm. The yearlong ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Casey Family Programs and the President's Advisory Council Work to Improve Financial Capability for Young People

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03/09/2015

... as they shared their efforts to improve the financial education , skills, and experiences of young people so that ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

Students from Massachusetts, California and New York were honored with awards.

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Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana

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07/09/2015

... broad array of challenges related to water and sanitation, education , livelihoods, youth employability, and more. The ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula

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08/06/2015

... a2ru to expand research in support of the arts in higher education . Initial funding was awarded in 2012, supporting ...

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... Now with the click of a button, the Ministry of Education is receiving information about these service ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Director Examines Link Between Art and Economic Development

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08/18/2015

... restaurants, and so on), while the Ministry of Culture, Education , and Religious Affairs will manage the National ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

... that are being applied to scholarship across higher education and transforming the way humanists work. The ...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

The Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy's study will look at the effects of discrimination on the children of immigrants, whether they are themselves immigrants or were born in the United States to immigrant...

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