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Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

Release Date:

09/24/2014

... have Internet access. Two billion of those people will be in developing countries, which means writers have an ... network Open Society Foundations published a 360-page report that evaluated the forces...

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Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)

Release Date:

03/18/2016

... such deaths has hovered at around 1,500 to 1,600 annually in recent years. But citing gaps in how this data is compiled, the report suggests the actual number may be as high as 3,000 a ...

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Ford Foundation Taken Off Watch List by Indian Government

Release Date:

03/21/2016

... permission” category. The Ministry, on the basis of a report sent by the Gujarat government last year, had put the ... to “national security”. The Gujarat government report had said that the organisation...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Was Key Supporter of Zika Study

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... not the sole funder, but was particularly valuable in the high-impact, and frankly, scary, areas of inquiry. Why? The Zika study, published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports, describes a mouse ... by...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge

Release Date:

09/22/2016

... Almost 90 percent of high school graduates spend some time in college, but only 40 percent of those students complete a bachelor's degree in four years and 60 percent in six, according...

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Ford, Blaustein, Levy and Overbrook Join Push to Protect Journalists

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... for his contempt for reporters and their bosses. Back in mid-October, CPJ's board labeled then-candidate Trump an ... threat to press freedoms after he swore that once in office, libel laws that shield...

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Leon Levy Foundation

Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

Release Date:

01/20/2017

... Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they socialized with on a regular basis — both in person and online — and then used the data to identify ... that instituted Roots experienced a...

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Funded by the Educational Foundation of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South

Release Date:

04/07/2017

... Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South Funded by the Educational Foundation of America ... Kresge and Mary Reynolds Babcock foundations, the report argues that the South is fertile...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Assessment of the Region’s Population Health Investments

Release Date:

05/02/2017

... Population Health Investments A new NYSHealth-funded report , prepared by Lake Fleet Consulting, analyzes the New ... for the State to maximize the value of its investments in population health and continue its...

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Rockefeller, Gates and Norway to Bolster ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Following Climate Change Flooding Fears

Release Date:

05/22/2017

... stronghold, built to preserve the world’s crop supply in the event of global disaster, had flooded after permafrost ... under the snow on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic. It is...

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Food Systems

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UN Moves To Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children In Yemen

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Blacklist Saudi Coalition For Violations Against Children In Yemen The Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen has been included in a draft version of the UN’s ... for grave violations against...

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

Release Date:

11/09/2017

... picture of the state of for-profit higher education in America. The report comes as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces ... abandoning the practice of full loan cancellation in favor of...

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The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance

Release Date:

12/10/2018

... variation between states' total healthcare costs. The report also found vast differences in costs between five states studied. Overall, national health spending has slowed in recent...

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Materials for Philanthropy New York's 42nd Annual Meeting Business Meeting

Publication date:

05/2021

... 2021 Draft Minutes from the 41st Annual Meeting 2021 Report of the Governance & Nominating Committee Biographical ... the candidates nominated to the Board of Directors Formal Report of the Board of Directors to the memebrs (audited ...

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Reflections from Jeffrey R. Solomon

Release Date:

05/21/2010

... states, talking to numerous audiences seriously interested in philanthropy. His observations and discussions with these ... reflections on some of the issues and challenges of our sector , which he has...

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Insights

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

Lessons from the Field: Becoming Strategic: The Evolution of the Flinn Foundation

Publication date:

03/2009

In 2002, Arizona’s Flinn Foundation began implementing a ... Since that time, Arizona has had dramatic increases in jobs, research funding, businesses, and wages within the bioscience sector . This case study illustrates the benefits of taking a ...

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

A Road Less Traveled....

Release Date:

11/01/2011

... at Philanthropy New York to help the philanthropic sector and policymakers reform New York’s often-criticized ...

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Community Development

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Philanthropy New York

Biggest Givers of 2012

Release Date:

03/04/2013

... & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is quoted in this analysis of 2012's top donors. A forecasting outfit ... going to be one of the worst years for charitable giving in five decades, with...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Environment Program Featured in New Podcast Series

Release Date:

05/03/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Environment Program Featured in New Podcast Series In the first episode, we join a conversation between ... America’s reliance on coal and shifting the U.S. power sector...