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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

... Companies and Causes Create Viral Change When I think back to the social movements I learned about as a kid — from women' s suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, ... leaders and...

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... Convention on Climate Change, delivered a global agreement to limit future global warming to under 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The formal ... in Paris in November-December 2015 was approved. Norway’...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark ... of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the...

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Science

John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine

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08/25/2016

John A. Hartford Foundation' s Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine Dr. Terry ... on November 3, 2016. The recipients of the Academy' s prestigious annual awards...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

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09/07/2016

... also shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, that students have to attend the programs regularly to reap the benefits. "We would hope that these findings would encourage district leaders and others to...

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The Wallace Foundation

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices ... should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation ... senior evaluation or program staff at foundations in the U. S . and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or ...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... Foundation, a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’ s son and daughter-in-law, announced it had won the rights to restore and redevelop the former prison. The project, called “The Women’ s...

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Justice Reform

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NoVo Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

... Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’ s Economy Billions Each Year Long Island’ s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 ... income gap faced by African-American...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Social Justice

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of ... Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a national leader in the movement to...

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’ These are ... For more than 25 years, Nathan Cummings Foundation’ s mission has explicitly named a commitment...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

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05/05/2017

... by Community Hospitals One of the Obama administration’ s big selling points in enacting the Affordable Care Act in ... by expanding Medicaid insurance for many of the nation’ s poor, the law would begin...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

Soros Hits Back at Hungary’ s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School Investor George Soros hit ... against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader ’ s...

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Open Society Foundations

To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead One of Michael Bloomberg' s main contributions to the global fight against climate ... gas...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

With Wallace Foundation Support, New Study Finds Principal Development Pipelines Both Beneficial and Affordable

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07/10/2017

... Development Pipelines Both Beneficial and Affordable It' s no secret to readers of IP that the Wallace Foundation believes in the ... programs and pipelines for developing principals. Wallace'...

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Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship

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08/29/2017

... Around the time of World War I, two organizations set out to mold young Americans into resourceful and virtuous future ... groups wore uniforms, explored the wilderness and swore to uphold their values. There...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot

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08/31/2017

... Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot Elected to lead the biggest city in the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio often seems to hunger for a brighter spotlight. He tried to shape the...

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Community Development

Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement It’ s to be expected that some residents would object to ... of New York City Housing Authority developments when...

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Arts

A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

... In The Fight Against Islamophobia In Illinois, a mother’ s heartache over her daughter’ s autism led to a nonprofit that helps Muslims with disabilities. Out of ...

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