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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

... The Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on ...

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NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care

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05/09/2016

... Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care The U. S . Department of Veterans Affairs is again under fire for ... long waiting lists for appointments at the nation’ s VA health care facilities, and for...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... of social change. That is why someone like Paul Salem, a private equity investor in Rhode Island, is rare. He has ...

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F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact

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06/10/2016

F.B. Heron' s Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact When we set out on Heron’ s current journey, we did so with the idea of building ... continue to operate under the...

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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

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07/07/2016

... and to foster a greater understanding among the public and private sector nationwide regarding the many benefits of ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... years immediately following the decision. The university’ s capital campaign raised $1.5 billion from 2003 to 2007, ... witnessed an increase in donations. And many esteemed private universities, including MIT...

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... as we've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about, private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 million to ... mathematics and the sciences. The Simons Foundation ’ s Education & Outreach...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’ s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art. This ... the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the museum’ s new contemporary art initiative. Ms...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South' s Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long ... blacks its research shows were killed by lynching in the U. S . from 1877 to 1950. The nonprofit'...

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

Newman' s Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board Newman' s Own today announced that Walter Harrison has been ... greater Hartford community. The University was the first private...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

... Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today welcomes ... Gathering. This program celebrates the Weinberg Foundation' s mission, partnerships...

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An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

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12/22/2016

... but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation’ s top institutions of higher education. Of course, there' s been lots of talk about exactly this challenge: How to open ... students in the nation’...

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

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02/01/2017

... the end of last year, Soros declared that the world' s “collective failure” to help the tens of millions of ... The hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in private investment capital to “invest...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030

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02/07/2017

... food loss worldwide by 2030, a key objective of the U.N.’ s Sustainable Development Goals. The loss in Nigeria is ... is lost to spoilage or is just thrown away. That’ s food that could nourish the nearly 800...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

... 377,000 eye-related emergency room visits by adults with private insurance over a 14-year period. The team has ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... Certification Guide The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’ s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are ... the country. Finally, the guide identifies different private , federal and state funding...

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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

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03/24/2017

... garnering attention from governments, businesses and private individuals as its impact on both environmental ... of any human activity, yet one-third of the world’ s available food either spoils or gets thrown...

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NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare

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03/31/2017

... a conversation with Sean Cavanaugh, one of the nation' s leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in store .....

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New York Health Foundation

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations. By law, tax-exempt foundations must ... endowment every year on charitable purposes. In Ford’ s case, that amounts to over $600...

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