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Will Obamacare Increase Insurance Costs in New York State?

Release Date:

04/01/2013

... pass; once it did, it needed to survive the Supreme Court' s consideration and the November election. But, now there is ... and analytical organizations like the CBO and the private Urban Institute are...

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$15 Million Gift and New Name for Community College

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04/29/2013

... of the City University of New York. For prestigious private colleges, where donations that top $100 million are ... size is both rare and transformative, and so New York’ s newest community college is getting...

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How our community colleges are falling behind

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05/23/2013

The Century Foundation’ s new report details the large socioeconomic, racial and ... community colleges and elite institutions. Pop quiz: What' s the biggest category of college or university in the United...

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Sharon B. King, Noted Philanthropic Leader, Dies at 68

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10/27/2014

... She was 68 years old. Sharon began her career in private philanthropy as a program officer at the Edna ...

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Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality

Release Date:

12/16/2014

... to influence the public debate on net neutrality, there’ s the Ford Foundation, the second-largest private foundation in the world. So it’ s no surprise that the Ford Foundation has poured...

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Right Wing Website Questions Ford Foundation Motives on Advocating for Net Neutrality

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01/16/2015

... for Net Neutrality The Ford Foundation, the world’ s second largest private foundation, denies that its spending of millions of ...

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Conservative Publications Accuse OSF of 'Bankrolling' Ferguson Protests

Release Date:

03/30/2015

... Ferguson Protests New tax filings from Soros’ s private foundation link donations and funding for groups in ... to news media to cover events using the billionaire’ s funding. Washington...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Selected as Fiscal Sponsor of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance

Release Date:

05/08/2015

... Advisors Selected as Fiscal Sponsor of My Brother’ s Keeper Alliance Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), one of the world’ s leading nonprofit philanthropic consulting services, has ... a sponsored...

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Rockefeller, Bloomberg Drive New Approaches to Urban Development

Release Date:

05/03/2016

... using new technologies and tools are being driven by private sector actors like the Rockefeller ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Asia Foundation and Lotus Circle Honor Carnegie’s Gregorian

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05/09/2016

Asia Foundation and Lotus Circle Honor Carnegie’ s Gregorian The Asia Foundation and The Lotus Circle, a community of U. S . individuals, foundations, and corporations who raise private capital to...

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Weinberg Foundation Names New Trustee

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05/16/2016

... Names New Trustee Fay Hartog-Levin, the former U. S . ambassador to the Netherlands, has joined the board of the ... The Baltimore-based foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States...

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13 Oct 2016

Indispensable: How Philanthropy Fuels American Success

Thursday, October 13, 2016 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... that without it there would be no America as we know it. Private action to solve public problems is one of the practices that most distinguishes the U. S . from other nations, and continues to play a crucial...

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17 Nov 2016

Expand Your Comfort Zone: Taking Risks in Family Philanthropy - Webinar

Thursday, November 17, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* Philanthropy is often described as society’ s “risk capital.” Private generosity...

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Family Foundation

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Mellon Foundation Awards St. Lawrence University $800,000 to Support Sophomore-Year Experience

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... Lawrence University has been awarded a large grant by a private foundation to support a new program aimed at ...

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The Commonwealth Fund Analyzes Trump and Clinton on Health Care

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11/04/2016

... Trump and Clinton on Health Care An analysis of Clinton' s plan by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent health care ... The Commonwealth analysis doesn't account for...

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Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money it Needs

Release Date:

11/09/2016

... with only $10 billion (PDF) per year invested by the private sector... Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable ...

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Environment and Climate Change

Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved

Release Date:

11/17/2016

... formed in 1966 by the family that made its fortune in private security, has quietly given more than 300 million dollars to children’ s organizations in the city, the New York Times reports. In ...

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Where Have Conrad Hilton Foundation's Global Grants Been Going Lately?

Release Date:

12/22/2016

Where Have Conrad Hilton Foundation' s Global Grants Been Going Lately? The Conrad N. Hilton ... with assets of $2.5 billion, is one of the biggest private U. S . funders giving for global...

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CUNY Publishes Paper on the Changing Role of the Ford Foundation in International Development, 1951–2001

Release Date:

03/07/2017

... in International Development, 1951–2001 While US private philanthropic foundations are small in comparison ...

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Supported by Doris Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States

Release Date:

03/13/2017

... amid climate change, and is distributing money to protect private lands through use-limiting easements or outright ... from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that it’ s now distributing among local land...

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