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The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot

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06/03/2016

... Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’ s $100 Million Jackpot NPQ has covered a lot of contest ... can be national or international and it has to come from an organization rather than an...

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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 ... and the isolation of poor people...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia Anti-pipeline activists from across the country met in Atlanta this week to talk ... that unusual. It was the right alliance.” This week’ s summit was organized by national...

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Environment and Climate Change

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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

... thriving communities, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the New York Community Trust to raise awareness and ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Joins Black Foundation Executives In Sharing Grief Over Police Shootings

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07/08/2016

... streets of Dallas, black foundation and nonprofit leaders from across the country picked up their phones Thursday and ...

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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, significantly surpassing its stated ...

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

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08/22/2016

... rhyme of history can be heard in the federal government' s proposal for Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs), which, if ... New Yorkers in the poorest ZIP codes. The Big Apple' s bitter experience...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U. S . Relations Strategy U. S . President Barack Obama has tried his hardest to keep his distance from the Syrian war. Even as he has made the...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

Bloomberg' s Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better ... City mayor and billionaire philanthropist, is the WHO’ s new global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases. ... help ministries of...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... City Leadership Initiative Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard ...

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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

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09/09/2016

... including humans, use to lower their temperature— from “automatic” physiological processes such as sweating ... hypothalamus (POA) as the site that detects the body’ s warmth. But because this compact area...

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... the level of some of the most over-expressed of these RNAs from mammary tumor samples, cellular features characteristic ...

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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...

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Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift

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12/06/2016

... (BCF) announced in early November that it would divest from private prison companies, predatory lenders and the gun ... The Sentencing Project has determined that, for U. S . residents born in 2001, one in...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

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12/08/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New ... of energy and climate change in early 2016. OPIC, the U. S . government’ s international development finance .....

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U. S . Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients The U. S . healthcare system is failing patients with complex medical ... and avoid costly hospital visits, an issue brief ...

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

... to make a significant difference in society. That’ s the good (and perhaps hardly surprising) news in a new report from our organization, the Center for Effective Philanthropy ...

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Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

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12/12/2016

... in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’ s America U. S . Syria policy had been due for a major rethink, even before ... effecting a negotiated political transition away from...

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NYSHealth Report Finds Insurer-Hospital Contracts Hinder Competition and Transparency

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12/19/2016

... region of New York State, according to a new study drawing from exclusive, nonpublic data from health insurers and ... contracts with New York State hospitals. A hospital’ s market leverage—...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... they saw preventing everyone who lives in Crown Heights from thriving. Last, suspending skepticism, they imagined new...

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