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Weinberg Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day

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09/27/2016

... Foundation Employees Given $500,000 to be Grantmakers for a Day The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of ... At the event, 25 employees will each present a check for $20,000 to a Maryland nonprofit...

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2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists Announced

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10/07/2016

... City and Westchester that have been chosen as finalists for $60,000 in prizes and prestigious scholarships. The New ...

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Survey Supported by Ford Foundation Says Nearly Half of Young Adults Lack Retirement Savings, Pension

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10/17/2016

... Savings, Pension Young Americans with even just $1 saved for retirement are ahead of the pack. Forty-eight percent of ... of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The...

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Economic Security

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The Atlantic Philanthropies Establishes New Program to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism in the U.S. and South Africa

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10/25/2016

... Columbia University today announced the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a 10 -year, $60 million program for courageous and creative leaders dedicated to dismantling ...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

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10/26/2016

... paychecks in 2006, growing to 8.4 percent in 2010 and 10 .1 percent in 2015. And that doesn’t include co-pays for doctors’ visits and prescription drugs... Commonwealth ...

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NPCC Announces Winners of 2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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11/08/2016

... Awards, which include a total of $60,000 and scholarships for the Columbia Business School Executive Education Programs ... Social Enterprise. The three organizations will be honored for their management...

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The New York Community Trust

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Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

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11/10/2016

... borders of the nucleus create a challenge: In order for the cell to produce essential proteins, messages derived ... from DNA, must pass. The results were published November 10 in Cell... Simons Foundation...

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

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12/02/2016

... who oversaw the Capital One Foundation’s $450 million, 10 -year charitable plan, has teamed up with longtime ...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative

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01/11/2017

JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative The Council of Chief State School ... Chase & Co. today announced $20 million in grants to 10 U.S. states to dramatically...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Broken Box Mime Theater

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02/21/2017

... Recently awarded Two New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Performance Art and Choreography/Movement, ...

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Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project

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03/01/2017

... Library Project. The Weinberg Foundation has committed $ 10 million, of the total $30 million project investment, to ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund's Koller Comments on Consequences of Dumping Essential Benefits

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03/24/2017

... attempt by conservative Republicans to dump standards for health benefits in plans sold to individuals would ... repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But, they add, it will likely also induce insurers...

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

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04/06/2017

... Still Kills Many Every Year Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary

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04/20/2017

... Russell Sage. Mrs. Sage established the foundation in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States” with a gift of $ 10 million. In its early years, RSF undertook major...

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Prudential Doubles Down On Financial Wellness

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05/17/2017

... to advance solutions that increase financial security for all American workers, and armed employers with new tools ... also published The Wellness Effect, an important roadmap for companies looking to give...

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Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

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08/30/2017

... according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. consumers say they would switch from the food and ... Nielsen said. Sixty-eight per cent are willing to pay more for food and beverage...

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Food Systems

Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

... cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent...

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International/Foreign Affairs

More Floods Are Coming And We're Making Them Worse

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09/07/2017

... When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual ... levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defence, transportation, flood control...

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Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive

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09/14/2017

... Others Thrive Calling schools “the breeding ground” for dangerous gangs like MS-13, Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday ... officers” from the State Police will be posted in the 10 Suffolk County schools believed to have...

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