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Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards

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06/30/2014

Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris Kearns Goodwin won for nonfiction.

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Morgan Stanley Picks Newark As One Of Its Healthy Cities Sites

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06/27/2014

Morgan Stanley named Newark the third location for its Healthy Cities initiative, a program connecting several local nonprofits, schools and hospitals to help support healthy child development.

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William T. Grant Foundation Website Gets New Look

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07/01/2014

The William T. Grant Foundation has launched a new website and logo, along with the debut of the blog, "Researchers Digest."

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Jacqueline Jones Named President of Foundation for Child Development

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07/01/2014

Jacqueline Jones, a national leader in the movement for high-quality early learning, has been named president of the Foundation for Child Development.

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Boards as an Accountability Mechanism

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06/2014

This paper examines board functioning in relation to both legal and broader conceptions of accountability, and empirical evidence from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute National Survey of Nonprofit Governance . It discusses areas of board weakness and considers different approaches to improving them, including regulation, self-regulation, policy-oriented strategies, and management-oriented strategies.

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Inequality Is the Problem—What’s Our Response?

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07/02/2014

William T. Grant Foundation President Adam Gamoran discusses the role high-quality social science research can play in identifying programs, policies, and practices that can combat mounting inequality in the United States.

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6/25/2014 - The Future of Finance - Livestream recording and Reports

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07/2014

View a recording of the livestream and related materials presented during the program The Future of Finance: Shifting Power and Wealth from Wall Street to Main Street.

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PNY Makes Public Video from Session on the Future of Finance

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07/02/2014

View the livestream recording and related materials from the program The Future of Finance: Shifting Power and Wealth from Wall Street to Main Street.

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Carnegie Corporation Offers July 4th Salute To Immigrants Who Make America Strong

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07/02/2014

This Fourth of July, as it has for every year since 2006, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, its board and staff, are celebrating naturalized citizens whose contributions have helped to make our nation vibrant and strong.

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Corinne H. Rieder To Retire As Executive Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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07/02/2014

Corinne H. Rieder, EdD, Executive Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation, has announced plans to retire.

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ACA May Be Modified, But Based On Enrollments, It's Here To Stay

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07/02/2014

Now that an estimated 20.1 million Americans have insurance because of the Affordable Care Act—and as that number grows—the wholesale repeal of the law is less likely, Commonwealth Fund President David Blumental, M.D., and Sara R. Collins, Ph.D.,...

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What's Keeping Bloomberg Busy These Days

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07/03/2014

Since he left office six months ago, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with Bloomberg Philanthropies, has been focusing on issues ranging from climate change to gun violence to boosting fish populations in the Philippines, Chile and Brazil.

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For Diverse Communities, Giving Circles Strengthen Involvement In Philanthropy

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07/03/2014

A new study, funded in part by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, finds that one in eight American donors has participated in a giving circle—nearly half of them under the age of 40.

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Sam Goldman Named 2014 Winner of Charles Bronfman Prize

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06/03/2014

Sam Goldman, founder and chief customer officer of the solar products company d.light design, was named the winner of The Charles Bronfman Prize, which comes with a $100,000 award.

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation, which already gets high marks for putting residents' voices at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level.

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Americans' Wait Time To See Doctors Is Longer Than in Many Other Countries

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07/05/2014

Many Americans wait six days or more to see a doctor when they are sick and need care, ranking the United States toward the bottom in a Commonwealth Fund study of wait times for treatment in 11 countries.

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Laboratory Announces $50 Million Gift To Establish Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

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07/07/2014

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has announced a $50 million gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons to establish the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology.

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Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers

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07/07/2014

Some of the most exciting research in medicine is taking place at the New York Stem Cell Foundation, and almost all its work is being paid for by private donors.

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds

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07/06/2014

The Ford Foundation will be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit's future, which will administer the $366 million in private money pledged as part of a "Grand Bargain" to save the Detroit Institute of Art's collection from the auction...

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