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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

Stonewall Foundation' s Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly ... years. Now Executive Director, Lucas is steering the ship of one of the city' s most...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014 ... make money selling Obamacare health insurance in the first year . Next year...

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Staff at Open Society Foundations Just Voted to Join a Union. Is That a Good Thing?

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07/22/2016

Staff at Open Society Foundations Just Voted to Join a Union. Is That a Good Thing? It’ s been a bumpy ride at the Open Society Foundations over the ... its creative chaos...

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Supported by Rockefeller and Bloomberg, Climate Finance Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth

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07/26/2016

... Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth 2016 is a hot year for climate finance. Following the Paris Agreement in ... engineering new solutions and supporting the development of new...

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

... Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row In 1989, a 29- year -old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan ... legal representation to every inmate on the state’ s...

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at ... award approximately $83 million over five years in support of the first cohort...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund

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10/21/2016

... Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund There’ s a new, deep-pocketed liberal donor in town. It’ s called the ... a man named Stephen McConnell in Washington...

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Civic Engagement

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The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own

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11/28/2016

The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman' s Own Paul Newman was a man ahead of his time. While everyone now grasps the idea of social .....

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Food Systems

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Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships

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12/02/2016

... President Carolyn Berkowitz stepped down earlier this year to pursue other opportunities, one question remained: ... Berkowitz, who oversaw the Capital One Foundation’ s $450 million, 10- year...

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer Over the past two years, Silicon ... while less profitable—each was already giving back as a member of Pledge 1% , an initiative for companies to...

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

... Northwell School of Medicine, thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has pumped some $85,000 into the school’ s Medical Scholars Pipeline Program, which...

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More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

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07/28/2017

... cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a "chief resilience officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’ s namesake cohort — most ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... Prison Museum, which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called “Community Conversations: ... (WCF) is funding the series, which will focus on the 200- year history...

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Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs

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08/25/2017

... Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs A grant from Citi Foundation helped Florida International ... and moderate-income communities who are within two years of starting their companies and...

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Soviet-Era Program Gives Even Unoppressed Immigrants an Edge

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08/29/2017

... Growing up in the 1970s and ’80s in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, Halyna Davydyuk was bullied by ... was jailed for his beliefs. Today, she said, “there’ s not a lot of...

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Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

... scores for some of its earliest students, according to a new study conducted by research firm MDRC. The analysis, ... as part of a federal grant, found that the network’...

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New York State Health Foundation Funding Holistic Health in NY State

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08/30/2017

... and programs that support post-9/11 veterans. Much of that money has been used to help treat chronic disease ... whether their efforts might serve more people, and have a more meaningful impact, if the focus...

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Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented

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08/31/2017

Cuomo Says Penn’ s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented The “summer of hell” ... and communication, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday in a statement. “We said this summer had the...

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USAID Announces Over $90 Million In Additional Humanitarian Assistance To Ethiopia

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08/31/2017

... Green and Prime Minister Desalegn discussed U. S . support for Ethiopia' s economic development, drought ... noted the Government of Ethiopia' s robust response to...

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