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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... Duke Impact Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a total of $3.2 million in Impact Awards to 40 artists in the fields of jazz...

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Arts

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... In 2010, the District brought in more than $31 million from national foundations, according to an analysis ... reform efforts in the public school system. At least $ 7 million went to specific charter schools...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

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09/11/2015

... is the most common form of glaucoma, affecting more than 3 million Americans, primarily after the age of 50. Pressure ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... announced Tuesday that it has gathered more than $375 million in public and private financing to be channeled into ... . The Carnegie Corporation of New York has pledged $25 million to back innovative school...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... suite will be among the amenities sacrificed in a $190 million renovation of the Ford Foundation Building, 320 East ... of the soaring greenhouse atrium, a volume of about 1.6 million cubic feet. . . A...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... success. That’s why we’re announcing a new $75 million investment to expand high-quality career-focused ... Technical Education Consortium, we are launching a multi- million dollar competition for states to...

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UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

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02/09/2016

... UJA-Federation claims that FEGS owes more than $40 million to the plan, both for past due annual contributions ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Jewish Interests

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... in public schools. If the request is approved, $120 million will go to school districts for programs intended to ... charter schools or networks. That adds up to a total of 4 million students in classrooms...

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Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance

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03/17/2016

... in the United States is stubbornly high, with more than 12 million American children—16.5 percent of all ... the CTC for children age 6 and above) would lift 3.2 million children out of poverty. . . Century...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10 million to Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. to expand ... energy in Africa. The investment was part of an $117.5 million funding round announced last...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

... Last year the foundation launched a four-year, $100 million Data for Health initiative that seeks to help ... 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

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09/21/2016

... SheKnows Media, a leading women's media company with 81 million unique visitors a month* and 302 million social media fans and followers, today announced that .....

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... instability.” The hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in private investment capital to “invest in ...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Bank of America to Spur Economic Gains For Low-Income Families, Communities

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03/16/2017

... Support Corporation (LISC) today announced a $3.8 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation ...

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million program. "This funding addresses the need to improve ... percent of households facing food insecurity, more than 23 million Americans living in...

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Commonwealth Fund’s Biennial Health Insurance Survey Finds People with Medicaid Have Better Access to Health Care Than the Uninsured and Fewer Medical Bill Problems

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04/27/2017

... nation’s largest health insurer, covering more than 70 million people, about 12 million of whom enrolled when 31 states and the District of ...

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

... 2013, the number of uninsured Americans has fallen from 41 million to 27 million . Many prior studies have examined the relationship ...

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... Jobs Training JPMorgan Chase & Co. has announced a $6 million commitment to expand access to middle-skill jobs for ... the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 million New Skills for...

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The New York Community Trust

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Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative

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05/18/2017

... Initiative Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $5 million grant to launch the Partnership for Healthy Cities ... killers such as motor vehicle accidents, which kill 44 million people globally each year...

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