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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate from prestigious campuses ... is being coordinated by the nonprofit Aspen Institute’ s College...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs

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01/12/2017

... was the Principal Consultant at Hummingbird Consulting from 2013 - 2016. Lisa sits on the boards of Brooklyn ... served as the Board President of the Red Hook Initiative from 2005 - 2013. Lisa is a third-...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... evaluation, and archiving knowledge. Funded by the S .D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation , which...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

The Army Infantry’ s First Women The Army has sought to play down the ... and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... the steamy woods...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the flashiest of grants. But this funding ... housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will be a decade from now. To be sure, the big banks...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... simple assumption. Organizations involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint, seem to offer more influence and ... looking for breakthroughs to the world’ s most persistent health challenges, ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children' s Hospital suggests. The researchers say pediatricians may ... born with higher birthweight appeared to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,000 individual items ... audio recordings and video are all included. Items date from the 1850s to the present and...

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CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

... Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest ... underwriting loss through the first six months of 2017, up from a $48 million underwriting...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

... Reform In September 1999, Deanna Hoskins was released from a community-based correctional facility after serving ... senior policy advisor for corrections and reentry at the U. S . Department of Justice...

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

... Jersey Leaders President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, ... in the region and a top priority for many officials from the two states. It would...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. ... numbers, NCDs don’t receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

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09/27/2017

... in an age of such abundance. But amid the internet' s vast and churning piles of information, there are pieces missing from the open government puzzle. Since the National Oceanic ... those data sets and...

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... the world is at my fingertips. I can order takeout from a local restaurant, express-deliver flowers to a friend ... their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct mail to online-only...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three countries—Democratic Republic of the ... of all refugees resettled in the United States came from countries in Africa (primarily ...

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs and Lower ... Hubbard, assistant professor of management in Notre Dame' s Mendoza College of...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

... Rodolfo Lanciani collected an enormous archive of Rome’ s history—meticulously documenting the excavations of the city’ s 3,000 years of continuous settlement. Today, Lanciani’ s ... have...

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