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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

... by women and people of color. The Surdna Foundation’ s Board of Trustees has approved the creation of an $18 ... social value. The foundation also announced an investment from the Fund to support the growth of...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

... Steve, in 1997. Having had the benefit of a perspective from different sectors, a couple things have become clear: ... a lot of money and talent directed towards solutions. It’ s clear we desperately need new...

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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

... Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor' s salaries. Though the recent release of Medicare’ s physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of ... are currently earned not through the...

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... be constructed high enough to block major storm surges from flooding the Financial District and also generate enough ... to the study expected to be released today by the city’ s Economic Development...

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De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

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05/20/2014

... force that will be charged with overhauling the city’ s job-training and workforce-placement programs. Speaking from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, the mayor said the city’ s...

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... Fellows working on a range of criminal justice issues, from solitary confinement to DNA databases to police ... the justice system,” said Ken Zimmerman, director of U. S . Programs at the Open Society...

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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

... and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from Ohio, where the biggest outbreak is ongoing – and ...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served on the board of Rockefeller ...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... Ecology, or SCOPE, a program of the Simons Foundation’ s Division of Life Sciences that aims to advance basic ... control the movement and exchange of energy and nutrients, from the surface of the water to the...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from Telus International, a Canadian outsourcing firm, and ...

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

... of Gardens The newly formed New York Botanical Garden' s Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, holds its first public ... new humanities institute...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

... Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, ...

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation' s New Strategy Brooklyn Community Foundation, which ... entrepreneurs, and leaders together to discuss Brooklyn’ s future: the pressing needs of its...

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New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds

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07/06/2014

... be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit' s future, which will administer the $366 million in private ... of a "Grand Bargain" to save the Detroit Institute of Art' s...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... to require buffer zones to keep protesters at a distance from abortion clinics.... On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation ...

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Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

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07/17/2014

... Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’ s County, Md., as part of Carnegie Corporation of New York' s Opportunity by Design initiative, an effort to assist ... with CASA of Maryland--...

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Helmsley Trust Grant Gives Educators A Voice In Common Core Discussions

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07/21/2014

... A Voice In Common Core Discussions A recent grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to America Achieves Inc. ... The $1.7 million to grant to support the group' s Teachers and Fellowship program will...

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

... The study, conducted as part of the foundation' s Great Recession Initiative, found that between 2003 and ... net worth for the typical household declined by 36 percent from $87,992 to $56,335. The study...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

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09/01/2014

... Peter Cunningham, the former communications guru for U. S . Education Secretary Arne Duncan, is leading the ... which is backed with initial grants totaling $12 million from the Broad Foundation, Bloomberg...

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Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?

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09/09/2014

... contributed to the huge economic gap between America’ s rich and the rest? The evidence, it turns out, is suggestive, but not definitive. From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans ...

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