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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

... many ways opportunity begins with financial literacy. The more young people understand their financial choices, the more likely they are to manage their money effectively, save ...

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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... 50s, and therefore DID have the benefit of arts education. More immediate culprits, to my mind, are social change, the ... left of it. Looking at ways to solve the problem is a more productive approach; and...

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Verizon Foundation to Match Employee Contributions to Nepal Relief Efforts

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04/28/2015

... earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday, claiming more than 3,000 lives, injuring more than 7,000, leaving many unaccounted for and razing ...

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Disaster Relief

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Long Island Community Foundation Supports Treatment for Military Veterans and Their Families

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05/19/2015

... work to increase awareness of the M-FIT program to reach more veterans and their family members, expand partnerships ... with mental health needs in the military. Of the more than 700,000 veterans nationally,...

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Survey Shows Afterschool Participation Grows but Unmet Demand Nears 20 Million Children

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07/07/2015

... up parks and playgrounds, and by participating in many more activities that prepare them for college, career and ... enrolled in an afterschool program, there are two more who are not – and whose parents would...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... for example, increased from near zero in 2010 to more than $100 million in 2014 – more than three times the amount spent by the National ...

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices

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11/04/2015

... April 2012 have continued to choose the healthier options more than two years later. In a previous study published ... menu. The team then followed up to measure outcomes more than one and two years later. The...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers

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03/04/2016

... retain them, banks increased their compensation, gave them more time off and even did away with some of their more menial work. But some millennials have still been ...

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Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

... 1, those with high levels of the biomarker PRAME mRNA were more likely to metastasize than those with low levels of ... indicating that patients with this biomarker be monitored more closely for metastatic...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely to participate in ACOs than other hospitals. ... care organizations (ACOs) over the past decade. Although more than half of ACO provider...

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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

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03/14/2016

... their pilot program, Field Trip New Jersey, has awarded more than $45,000 in grants to schools supporting educational ... throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to award these grants...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Clark Foundation Illustrates Grantmaking for a Rainy Day

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05/02/2016

... on program- or project-focused restricted grantmaking to more flexible funding that enables organizations to build ... crisis, Clark identified working capital as a much more critical need for the nonprofits...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers to strengthen the delivery of health care ... a critical gap as the population lives longer and needs more care...” New York Community...

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The New York Community Trust

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... around the country of environmentalists teaming up with more conservative-leaning property-rights advocates, but she’d like to see more ... Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose ...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared that I saw a ... as a foundation that was driven to invest in a better, more just world with people at the center...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... to submit the Letter of Intent is November 7, 2016 . For more details on the application process, including the full eligibility criteria, and for more details on the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research ...

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RFPs Etc

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices

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10/17/2016

... and ethnicity, income level, and gender; (2) the fact that more students are borrowing more money to pay for college; and (3) the fact that those ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the brief, How High-Need ... States (20 pages, PDF), found that while 95 percent of the more than eighteen hundred high-...

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia More than two-thirds of the CEOs of large, staffed ... (CEP). But there is bad news, too, and some may find it more surprising. A much smaller proportion—just...

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