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To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

... Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead One of Michael Bloomberg' s main contributions to the global fight against climate ... Most recently, Bloomberg helped rally cities in the U. S . to affirm their...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... way scientists study urban environments - with an assist from Google. In joint work with Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred ...

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

... expands his sweeping probe into whether Tillerson' s former employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman' s office considers the nation' s...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

Simons Foundation' s SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of ... "In order to fully understand the genetics of autism, DNA from both parents of an affected individual is far more .....

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... local ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire neighborhoods and their schools... Check out the ...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’ s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery ... the last 20 years. He says when he returned home in 1994 from two decades in prison, he...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a far cry from the air-conditioned spaces data wonks usually inhabit. ... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized criminal...

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

... Funds Contemporary Dance Valerie Green/Dance Entropy' s Impermanent Landscape, a contemporary dance performance in ... composed by Martyn Axe, it has been adapted for the Museum' s garden setting...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists

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08/11/2017

... Arts and Cultures (NALAC) comes with new investments from the Andrew Mellon Foundation towards the NALAC Fund for ... Fund for the Arts through the year 2020. The Foundation' s three-year commitment will...

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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

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08/11/2017

... people to connect with, celebrate and support America’ s national parks and community-based programs, including ... is also a partner of SCA, supporting the organization’ s Find Your Park volunteering events...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation ... of two new advisory councils stocked with heavy hitters from the world of philanthropy...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... Financing for Climate Issues As climate change pushes U. S . cities to build protections against stronger storms and ... one that transfers some of the risk of innovative projects from cities to investors. The...

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NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening

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08/17/2017

NoVo’ s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening NPQ has written in the past about the NoVo Foundation’ s constituent-centric approach to funding (here, here, and ... face today. NoVo’ s...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

... credit-card company is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality ... As Ms. Singh details, the center is deploying MasterCard’ s technology, data, and networking...

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... will carry over to NewsHour online, with original stories from NewsHour’ s reporting team and partners at the Hechinger Report, ...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

Simons Foundation' s Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including ... the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public' s help is being enlisted in what' s thought to be the...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Telehealth Private Payer Laws

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08/23/2017

... to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from that of the provider—as a way of expanding patient ...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion' s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for ... The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure...

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