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Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

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12/21/2016

... While it isn’t an uncommon example of the partnerships between government and philanthropy, it’s a suitable template for how government’s ability to collect ...

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A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion ... (animal welfare, education) — can be great conduits between companies with philanthropic dollars to spend and ... manager at the San Francisco AIDS...

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Mark Zuckerberg Clashed With Facebook Execs Over Letting Employees Work On His Philanthropy

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10/02/2017

... work on non-Facebook related projects was discussed during a February 2016 meeting of the social network's board of directors, according to court documents from a recent lawsuit between...

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City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City

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10/04/2017

... High School in Long Island City The city will construct a new high school with room for nearly 1,000 students in ... to the Department of Education. The new school, a four-story building set to include 969...

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Hartford Foundation Awards Nearly $2.3 Million in Grants

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03/20/2014

The John A . Hartford Foundation awards $2.275 million in grants to the ... toward the fundraising target outlined in the plan as CAPC transitions to a largely self-sustaining, revenue-generating...

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Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls

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04/14/2015

... challenges traditional gender roles, and celebrates a diversity of voices, it has the power to help Jewish teens grow into adulthood with confidence, compassion and a lifelong commitment to Jewish community...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... by physicians to nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy, researcher Claudia Maier, a 2014–15 Harkness/Braun Fellow, examined how ...

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For Educational Leaders

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11/30/2015

... of professional standards for educational leaders. The model standards, which were released to the public on Monday, ... for Educational Administration. They had been more than a year in the making and had...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending

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04/19/2016

Grant awarded to University of Washington to analyze drivers of healthcare spending and identify future trends to guide efforts to improve health outcomes and bend the cost curve.

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Research to Prevent Blindness Was Key Supporter of Zika Study

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09/15/2016

... the prestigious journal Cell Reports, describes a mouse model developed by researchers at Washington ... with clinical reports that pinpoint red, infected eyes as one of the distinguishing...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals

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09/23/2016

... Commonwealth Fund reports, our online comparison tool, and a summary on the Fund’s To the Point blog. In modeling the ...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers As a first-of-its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a ...

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

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10/11/2016

Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing When my ... large-scale environmental problems, we were faced with a big question: how could a...

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

... and their state and district partners to participate in a new $47-million initiative to develop models over the next ... to encourage higher-quality training statewide. In a fifth year and in earlier reports,...

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Regional Plan Association Wins Grant From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Study Climate's Impact on Wetlands

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04/19/2017

... Impact on Wetlands Regional Plan Association has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable ... Tidal Wetland Migration in the New York Region,” will model the potential changes to...

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... from Rikers Island About 18 months ago, there seemed to be a growing national consensus about the imperative of ... federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’s still possible to...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

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09/14/2017

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Simons Foundation co-founders Jim and Marilyn Simons to dedicate the foundation’s new Flatiron Institute, an intramural research division of the Simons Foundation that tackles big datasets — and big scientific...

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JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

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09/15/2017

... unemployment. The program, announced today, is modeled on a larger-scale effort Chase began three years ago in Detroit. There, the bank committed $100 million to a comprehensive program to address Detroit...

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