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Ms. Foundation President Urges TLC to Educate About Child Abuse in Light of Recent Revelations

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05/28/2015

... President Urges TLC to Educate About Child Abuse in Light of Recent Revelations In the aftermath of revelations about child sexual abuse reportedly committed ... charge Josh when Jim Bob Duggar finally turned...

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Gender Justice

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Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges

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05/28/2015

... Community colleges tend to receive the least amount of public financial support compared to other institutions, yet they are asked to push high numbers of low-income students into the middle class with few...

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

Resilience: Nature’ s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods The recent ... and villages, bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning might have prevented the worst...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'

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07/08/2015

New York Women' s Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the ... older, Social Security checks are the all-important means of survival. But for older female immigrants those ... off-the-books...

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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

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07/10/2015

... Looks to Girls As Change Agents Girls and young women of color have made important gains in education, health and ... participation in post-secondary education, reduced rates of teenage pregnancy, and even...

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Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

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08/04/2015

... In addition to her extensive publishing track record of books on poverty, Alice O’Connor’ s Ford credentials make her comments on the new strategy ... itself is hardly a revelation—echoing, as it does,...

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New York Botanical Garden Partners with MetLife Foundation for Healthy Families Program

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09/21/2015

... walking tours, and free weekly cell phone recordings with " What ' s in Season" at the Greenmarket. On select Wednesdays of each month, visitors may receive free health-related...

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Community Development

Food Systems

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... on track while you work step-by-step through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research, Brown ... This isn’t just an everyday aspect of psychology; it’ s an every minute one...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models ... and exciting for students. . . The Carnegie Corporation of New York has pledged $25 million to back innovative school ... the...

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New Disclosures on Mozilla Foundation and its Supporters (Ford, Helmsley)

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12/03/2015

... Mozilla Foundation and its Supporters (Ford, Helmsley) What ’ s up at Mozilla? The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation is a ... Calif., Mozilla operates quite differently from the rest of Silicon...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Commonwealth Fund Advice: It’s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare Coverage

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12/16/2015

Commonwealth Fund Advice: It’ s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare Coverage The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ... pay before their insurance kicks in. Yet, confusion about what services...

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Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth

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01/08/2016

... Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth Aging out of foster care can be a difficult process. With little ... are funding programs and projects in diverse ways. Let’ s look at some of the...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... All across America, schools predominantly serving students of color are being buried under a culture of "zero tolerance." These policies are turning what should be centers ...

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Social Justice

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Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

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02/11/2016

... Its First Decade Friday, January 29, was Bob Woodruff' s 10th Alive Day . As we reflect on the day that a roadside ... over the last decade. Inspired by the Woodruff' s story of...

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... may his memory be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work ... he was a retired butcher and not a wealthy man, he knew what it was like to experience...

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Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

Impact Investing' s Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation) I ... Development?'. The event brought together a diverse panel of experts from the private and philanthropic sectors to discuss...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm what many private surveys have shown: that the proportion of Americans under 65 who lack health insurance has plummeted ... fewer Americans were...

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Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College

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03/15/2016

Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College The high price of college is the subject of media headlines, policy debates, ... students, the real price of college is much...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation' Just over 20 years ago, the iconic ... The essay called for leaders to stop focusing on what Drucker labeled “how to do”...

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