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City Year Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the New York Life Foundation

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06/16/2015

... in school and on track to graduation, announced today that it will standardize and scale its After-School middle school ... focus are clearly aligned. We see the need to do more to keep middle school students...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Philanthropy's Difficult Dance With Inequality

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07/08/2015

... Difficult Dance With Inequality America's foundations do not easily use the word "inequality." This may seem ... the wake of the Ford Foundation's recent announcement that it will refocus...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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MetLife Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Raise Awareness about Financial Inclusion

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09/10/2015

... of the global population is still financially excluded. It is an economic and a moral imperative that we reach them ... in Asia, nearly 30% of the region’s population, still do not have access to bank accounts...

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Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies

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10/08/2015

Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies To capture the magic of ... strategies for improving our nation’s schools. It wasn’t always expected that the...

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Ford, Carnegie, Bronfman and Others Support New Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good at Boston College

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10/21/2015

... 2015, at the University Club in Washington, D.C., where it will host The Rise of Donor-Advised Funds: Should Congress ... good. But sometimes the rules governing philanthropy do not produce that result."...

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color Question: If funding to ... Philanthropy are convening a webinar about impact giving for women and girls of color in early November. The idea...

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Social Justice

Gender Justice

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Simons Foundation Recognizes spectrUM as a National Model on STEM Engagement

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10/26/2015

... science to the public and inspiring others to do the same. The award, which carries a cash prize, was ...

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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

... action, Justice Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than to go to a highly selective college,...

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Education

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... giving in humans. Such a link could have implications for people with autism, schizophrenia or anxiety-related ... disorders, Platt said. "What we're trying to do is both identify and understand the...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

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12/16/2015

... as simple as your address. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), your zip code is a greater ... and has a greater impact on your health, than genetics. For example, look at the city of Boston...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

... had reached extreme levels. Carnegie argued, as many still do , that inequality on this scale is an unavoidable condition of the free-market system — and that it was even desirable, if the promise of wealth...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

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01/06/2016

... 138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $16,000 for an individual or $33,000 for a family of four). So far, 30 states and the District of Columbia have chosen to do so. Most have...

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Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors Geropsychologist Lauren N. ... on the physicians, surgeons and other clinicians who care for them. As an assistant...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

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02/09/2016

... in the series profiled the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. Spiraling health care costs in ... in part because of his success redesigning ambulatory care for medically fragile patients. The...

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... Bureau, we'll have to wait until the 150th observance for the wage gap between men and women to close. The women ... day, an end to child labor, and fair wages understood, as do movement leaders today,...

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JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech Training

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03/09/2016

JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech ... JPMorgan Chase released a new report, "Tech Jobs for All?: Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of Technology...

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Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies

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03/28/2016

... People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies We all remember our first jobs. Art ... was in a summer camp in a high-needs community in Boston. It is part of the reason that he...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Addresses Technology Gap in Rural Healthcare

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04/28/2017

... has awarded Providence St. Joseph Medical Center $400,000 for a new 64-slice CT scanner. CT scanners provide essential ... of structures inside the body. A new CT scanner will allow for faster scans that...

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Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office

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05/31/2017

... Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office The Ford Foundation is ... in Detroit since leaving the Motor City in 1953 as it ramps up a major initiative to invest in...

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Housing and Homelessness

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