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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

... by cities or governments to protect against the losses from a pre-defined natural catastrophe. Investors lose their ...

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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

... and mammograms, and prohibits insurance companies from charging copays for them. But findings from the most recent Commonwealth Fund Health Care ...

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to ... Professoriate, an initiative to prepare ninety students from Hispanic-serving institutions (...

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Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN

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02/11/2016

... a long-term goal of preventing global temperatures from increasing beyond 2°C above pre-industrial levels (with ... individual nations, and calls for increasing finance flows from developed states to...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, shows ... suit. The report was accompanied by another study from the organization, which outlines the...

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

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02/18/2016

... be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work through the stacks ... wealthy man, he knew what it was like to experience hunger from his teen years spent...

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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 percent in 1968. In the country’s 100 largest ... districts, economic segregation rose roughly 30 percent from 1991 to 2010. In some ways, it...

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... their schools more diverse. As a new pair of reports from the progressive Century Foundation shows, integration ... has come with one big difference that sets it apart from the busing battles of the past...

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NY Stem Cell Foundation: New Type of Stem Cell Found that Will Accelerate Discovery

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03/21/2016

... cells contain two copies of each gene – one inherited from a mother, and one from a father. An international collaboration of scientists ...

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

... back to the social movements I learned about as a kid — from women's suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, ... movements we've become familiar with, distinguishing them from movements of the...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Celebrates Latin Filmmakers at Tribeca Film Festival

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04/26/2016

... while receiving previews of the films they were derived from . Mixologist Juan Coronado based his concoctions on the ... film. We got the chance to speak with Chef Felipe Donnelly from Comodo who presented a a...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... LGBTQ communities. Stonewall seeks applications from organizations and projects focused on access to safe ... To that end, the foundation encourages proposals from organizations whose work addresses issues...

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Gender Justice

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Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)

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08/10/2016

... New York City metro area that seek help securing grants from sophisticated funders. GRIT applications, which can be ... , are due on August 11. The program will run from October 6 to November 10, 2016. GRIT...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... and authoritative information on what has been learned from research, data, and practical experience about ... approaches. The chapters in this book draw from and were commissioned by the Discipline...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they ... Findings in the report are based on survey responses from individuals who were either the most senior evaluation ...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... is supported by a $500,000 five-and-a-half year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the ... art initiative. Ms. Brewer comes to the museum from the University of Chicago, where she served as...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... meet the proposed requirement by offering IRAs, choosing from a government-curated “marketplace” of 401(k) plans ... group 401(k) plan designed to protect employers from the liability associated with investing...

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Economic Security

Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education

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12/14/2016

... study by a University of Kansas professor. “Young adults from families in the top quarter of the wealth distribution ... “What makes this a concern is that financial support from parents for education is...

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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

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01/03/2017

... will be made in February 2017, and are expected to range from $10,000 to $100,000. (The larger end of the range is for ... request for LOIs with City nonprofits that may benefit from this opportunity. Request...

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