The school has also raised $815 million in private donations, including $350 million from Atlantic Philanthropies, whose founder is a Cornell graduate, and $100 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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The Open Access Initiative is specifically funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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The organization receives support from the federal government and private philanthropies.
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Civica is a consortium of seven hospital groups and three philanthropies.
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That could undermine home-buying and donations to philanthropies, they say.
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The group is instead getting money from individual donors and philanthropies.
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Nor can philanthropies, such as Jewish Federations, make up the difference.
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Current job: CEO of Bloomberg LP and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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I mean, you could have Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in groups.
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It is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the former mayor's charitable foundation.
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Philanthropy: After Buffett dies, his Berkshire stock will go to philanthropies.
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Over the years, the Hoffberger Family Philanthropies contributed over $3 million.
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And as the new philanthropies have proliferated so, too, have the critiques.
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The project received funding and support from Bloomberg Philanthropies in early 2016.
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Second, the initiative will focus on investing in philanthropies powered by technology.
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The foundation makes grants to a wide variety of charities and philanthropies.
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There's also been no decision on what would happen to Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies is a donor to the National Press Club and the NPCJI.
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It is backed by numerous philanthropies, plus a couple of giant tech companies.
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It is underwritten by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the foundation of the Craigslist founder.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, backed by billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, funded the study.
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His foundation Tusk Montgomery Philanthropies is working to bring mobile voting to US elections.
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It requires the support of businesses and philanthropies committed to furthering fair housing nationwide.
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They hoovered more than $2 billion in contributions to their campaigns, foundation and philanthropies.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies will endow $43 million through its Arts Innovation and Management Training Program.
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We need more philanthropies that raise funds by mimicking the tactics of Madison Avenue.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed nearly $1 billion since 2007 to combat tobacco use worldwide.
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By the numbers: Overall, U.S. philanthropies are the wealthiest, with $890 billion in assets.
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Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, he would commit nearly $1 billion to fight tobacco use globally.
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A spokeswoman for Bloomberg Philanthropies, Jean Weinberg, did not respond to a request for comment.
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But major charitable commitments from philanthropies like these are, in general, more controversial than ever.
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At Bloomberg Philanthropies we are trying to change that equation by tackling obesity and smoking.
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SEED Lab is one of the five winners of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
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What's next: Bloomberg Philanthropies will work in coordination with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have funded the program.
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The new research was funded in part by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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And I hope that Tipping Point will be a model that other philanthropies will learn from.
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Elmendorf's clients have included Goldman Sachs, Visa, Amazon, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Blackstone Group, among many others.
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Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, for instance, is on the Bloomberg Philanthropies board of directors.
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Eventually, after substantive input and commitment from impacted workers and local philanthropies, the cutbacks were scaled back.
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This has forced new creativity, often turning to philanthropies and big corporations, to help fund their plans.
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The "we are still in" pavilion is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Hewlett Foundation and NextGen America.
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The initiative will involve more than a dozen federal agencies, top universities, major philanthropies and corporate giants.
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Voatz is a product of a Boston-based company, nonprofit Tusk Philanthropies and the National Cybersecurity Center.
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Over time, discussions of legal action involved the Rockefeller family philanthropies, the environmental campaigner Bill McKibben's 350.
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"Alwaleed Philanthropies' generosity will ... serve as a catalyst to spur greater investment," he said in a statement.
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Some traditional philanthropies, which have spending restrictions and targets they must meet, disapprove of the L.L.C. structure.
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One is that the government, by encouraging giving to private philanthropies, is fostering participation in civic affairs.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies said this week that it would spend $160m to discourage their use by the young.
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The Atlantic Philanthropies gave its last grant in 2016, but it is shutting down just this year.
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It will also connect public and private pools of capital, from pensions and family offices to philanthropies.
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A volunteer corps of civic groups, philanthropies, local governments and others are trying to fill the breach.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies says he&aposs already donated more than $6 billion to various causes over the years.
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Over the past 20 years, Janus Henderson said, Mr. Gross had donated $800 million to various philanthropies.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies will donate $40 million toward a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization founded by former New York Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg donates million to support grassroots organizing in swing states Bloomberg Philanthropies pledges M to fight coronavirus globally Biden would be nowhere without black voters.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies' successful Bloomberg Global Business Forum, which we support, will return to New York in the Fall.
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Coordinating global philanthropies and developed nations in mounting an international humanitarian relief campaign piggybacking on existing health systems.
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So again, this is ... For these philanthropies to start doing this, they have to start thinking more innovatively.
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Since last Thursday, the numbers have snowballed to "many hundreds," a spokeswoman for Bloomberg Philanthropies said on Sunday.
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The biennial budget for 2016 was $2.5 million, of which $1 million came from a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant.
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Wealth Matters For years, the John and Wauna Harman Foundation was doing what most small family philanthropies do.
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"We appreciate the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies and partners in helping tackle this epidemic to protect our youth."
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In response, a handful of philanthropies have adopted the cause of sending students with DACA status to college.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies has given millions to the government of Washington, D.C., and various local organizations in recent years.
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"It's not that philanthropies aren't doing enough," said Lila Valencia, the senior demographer at the Texas Demographic Center.
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He's the president of C40, a climate-friendly collaboration among 90 city leaders (Bloomberg Philanthropies is a key funder).
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A lot of different entrepreneurs have started their own philanthropies, Mark Zuckerberg obviously, Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam.
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The new organizations, known as venture philanthropies, have transformed basic medical research, drug discovery and the medicine approval process.
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Chan and her husband, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are operating one of the most ambitious philanthropies in human history.
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She was the founding president of ELMA Philanthropies, a private institution focused on helping African children and young people.
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On Monday, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the city won a $1 million grant to get the experiment off the ground.
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The study started in 2013 and is funded by philanthropies; the drugmaker's only role was to supply the drug.
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Putting this all together, I began thinking that there ought to be philanthropies dedicated to creating change for women.
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Forbes magazine once called him the "James Bond of philanthropy" for his work through his charity, the Atlantic Philanthropies.
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In 21, Bloomberg Philanthropies staff met with Sackler to discuss launching a joint initiative to combat the opioid crisis.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies says he has donated more than $6 billion to a variety of charitable causes over the years.
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If senators and representatives can't show courage, then churches, universities, schools, philanthropies, health systems, corporations, farmers and artists can.
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"Maybe I should be thinking about: If I endorse Bloomberg, Bloomberg Philanthropies will give us more money," he mused.
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Taube Philanthropies donated $20173 million to the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley.
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States, counties and cities are spending millions of dollars to raise their response rate, and philanthropies are adding millions more.
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She meets regularly with other academics, public policy groups and philanthropies that are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence.
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We recently sat down with Ms. Bell as part of our series about the people and inspirations behind local philanthropies.
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Soros, a billionaire whose Open Society Foundation is one of the nation's largest philanthropies, has also donated generously to Democrats.
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"The more people vote, the more government reflects the will of the people," said Bradley Tusk, CEO of Tusk Philanthropies.
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A consortium of seven hospital systems and three philanthropies came together to found Civica Rx in the fall of 2018.
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Older philanthropies may no longer be controlled by their founders, but care just as much about changing global public policy.
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His philanthropic arm, Bloomberg Philanthropies, in June launched a $500 million campaign called Beyond Carbon to take on climate change.
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About 36,000 Holocaust survivors live in the New York area, according to the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
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With funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, non-governmental organisations bought prominent advertising space to counter industry opposition to sugary drinks taxes.
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She serves on the board of the Women's Prison Association, and works with nonprofits, philanthropies, and organizations involved with women's prisons.
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For the next four years, OceanX and the charity Bloomberg Philanthropies have committed $185 million to Orpheus' research missions, and others.
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The day after Pruitt proposed to repeal the CPP, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced that it would give the campaign another $22010 million.
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Charity Navigator, an organization that holds philanthropies and nonprofit accountable, told CNN that the money should have been dispersed by now.
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It's a collaborative effort between the museum, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Half of the money will come from the city of Chicago, the other half from donors, companies and philanthropies, he said.
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"I'm a practical person," Mr. Bloomberg said in an interview at Bloomberg Philanthropies ahead of the release of its annual report.
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Right-wing organizations receive much of their financing from private individuals and philanthropies and do not have to disclose their identities.
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Once rural communities are set up with their broadband, Microsoft claims it will invest in digital skills training through Microsoft Philanthropies.
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"We've got to fight that, and that's another thing that Bloomberg Philanthropies will work on it in public health," he added.
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Although bigger donors, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, can afford to regularly test out ideas, such investments could wipe out a small foundation.
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Ms. Lane of Bloomberg Philanthropies was so concerned that she stopped using email and the phone to discuss strategy with Educar.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies then provided a $7.2 million grant to MDRC to guarantee a portion of the loan, reducing the lender's risk.
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The group gets support from several philanthropies and governments, and has collaborative agreements with academic research programs such as Harvard's HealthMap.
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The donation, to be made through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will fund an endowment for the school, which was founded in 25.
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Bloomberg, of course, has made many connections to elected Democrats through his Bloomberg Philanthropies activities and donations to members of Congress.
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It has become the hub of his empire — headquarters of Bloomberg Philanthropies and until recently the seat of his political operation.
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The agency says it's working with voting tech firm Democracy Live and advocacy organization Tusk Philanthropies to eliminate barriers to voting.
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This is a condensed and edited version of the conversation: When did you begin thinking about creating special philanthropies for women?
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Bloomberg Philanthropies is investing $43 million in more than 200 small and midsize cultural organizations in seven cities — Atlanta; Austin, Tex.
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Addressing inequity among residents caused by outmoded structures is a key issue among cities participating in Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative.
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"I've been lucky enough to do well in business," says the billionaire entrepreneur, who is also the founder of Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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Funding sources for the study included the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Wyss Foundation, the Waterloo Foundation, and the Adessium Foundation.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies highlights the plight of coal miners in a new film to be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday.
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And while they drew detractors, they eventually became a part of American society, and the fears that philanthropies would perpetuate inequality subsided.
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Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist and the Craig Newmark Philanthropies, which supports and connects nonprofit communities and drives civic engagement.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, which works on obesity prevention among other causes, provided funds for the study but was not involved in the research.
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And philanthropies like the Kresge Foundation are using innovative approaches, like credit guarantees, to push more fund managers to embrace community engagement.
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Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, the billionaire has donated an estimated $8 billion to gun control, climate change and other causes, according to Forbes.
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The U.S. city has now been selected as one of 25 to receive resources from Bloomberg Philanthropies to tackle climate change faster.
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One of the best-known spend-down foundations is the Atlantic Philanthropies, created by Chuck Feeney, who helped found Duty Free Shoppers.
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In 1984, he secretly transferred all of his assets, including his 38.75 percent ownership of the duty-free business, to Atlantic Philanthropies.
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When companies, consumers, philanthropies, nonprofits and activists come together, we can unlock the vast resources necessary to confront our greatest global challenges.
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Philanthropies shuttered; people's lifetime savings and college funds were wiped out; and two investors, and one of Mr. Madoff's sons, committed suicide.
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Financial support from the regional or national government or from private philanthropies, if free from constraints, can help to seed local projects.
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Rebecca Carriero, a spokeswoman for Michael Bloomberg and New York-based Bloomberg Philanthropies, declined to comment as they were unaware of any investigation.
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To keep everything straight, Bloomberg Philanthropies whipped up a handy atlas tracking a planet's worth of efforts to do away with human driving.
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After leaving South Africa, she pressed colleges, churches, unions, philanthropies and others to unload their stock in companies profiting from a racist system.
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Support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, for example, facilitated both the Cooper Hewitt renovations and the development of the Museum of Natural History's Explorer app.
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A representative from Bloomberg Philanthropies also notes to CNBC Make It that Bloomberg's lifetime giving to date has climbed to over $533 billion.
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With the government strapped for cash, philanthropies began to play a larger role in funding many of these programs on a local level.
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Philanthropies of Seattle's stripe also need different skills, Ms. O'Mara said, in science, medicine and international affairs — not just tech workers and engineers.
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Bloomberg still heads his financial data company and Bloomberg Philanthropies and is the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.
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In a statement Sunday, Bloomberg's charity Bloomberg Philanthropies said the $4.5 million would go towards the operations of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.
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Regulators won't do it without significant prodding, however, so it should be part of the agenda of FFAR and major health-related philanthropies.
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He's also the founder of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, which supports a range of causes including voter protection, veterans, women in tech and journalism.
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What we might see on Bloomberg's 1040 is the amount of money that goes to Bloomberg Philanthropies, his charitable giving initiative, said Nitti.
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Rajiv Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the nation's oldest philanthropies, founded by oil baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913.
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In the battle of Mike's bank account versus Donald's, Bloomberg LP versus the Trump Organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies versus the Trump Foundation, Bloomberg wins.
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Road safety: Traffic deaths are a major global problem with scientifically-tractable solutions, and Bloomberg Philanthropies has donated $259 million over 12 years.
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Last year, he and his son Mark launched OceanX, an arm of Dalio Philanthropies that promotes ocean exploration and awareness, mainly through filmmaking.
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Another issue that has drawn scrutiny is the pursuit of grants from the philanthropies operated by Mr. Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor.
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"The entire building is designed to spur imagination and innovation and sometimes unintentional interactions," said Patricia Harris, the chief executive of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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So, I've got-- nobody cares more than I do about getting the most money to those philanthropies over the years following my death.
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Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, he's continued to support private education, as well as a coal-free future, both controversial decisions for certain union members.
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Shaikh said they felt like traveling salesmen, two brown guys in suits showing up at the overwhelmingly white offices of the country's richest philanthropies.
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The Explorer app, which cost about $2.75 million, offset by the gift of an undisclosed amount from Bloomberg Philanthropies, is also a teaching tool.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies made the donation to the Beyond Coal campaign run by non-profit Sierra Club, and other organizations fighting the burning of coal.
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The survey provides a yearly snapshot of the challenges and experiences military families encounter in order to inform local communities, national policymakers and philanthropies.
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Powell Jobs used the $27.5 billion fortune she inherited after the Apple cofounder&aposs death in 2011, to launch her own businesses and philanthropies.
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But for now, Tusk Philanthropies is preparing to launch at least 20 other pilots this election season, according to the organization's president, Sheila Nix.
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By 28503, the nation's largest 22019 philanthropies were spending more on K-12 education in D.C. than in any other school district in America.
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Donor nations and philanthropies have contributed about $170 million of that total, including $20 million directly from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Donor nations and philanthropies have contributed about $22019 million of that total, including $20 million directly from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Organized along with the Jewish Arts Collaborative and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies organization, it is said to be the city's largest Hanukkah community celebration.
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The leaders who call the shots at major philanthropies are some of the most powerful people in the world that you've never heard of.
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The Temple of Time, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is among five large-scale art installations being displayed in Coral Springs and Parkland over two years.
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The research, which forms the basis for the first Poynter Media Trust Survey, was funded by Poynter and a grant from the Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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The development effort has largely been funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, specifically the Bloomberg Connects arm that funds digital programs that bring ideas to the public.
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To date, activists say they have secured more than $8 trillion in divestment commitments from more than 1,000 philanthropies, schools, pension funds, and other institutions.
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Meanwhile, a survey of 30 cities by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute found the biggest barrier to making these preparations was regulatory and financial.
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Meanwhile, Tusk Philanthropies will work with a cybersecurity partner ShiftState to conduct an independent audit, in addition to the internal audit done by of Voatz.
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Indeed, public schools regularly rely on parent groups and local philanthropies to fill specific budget gaps and to support capital projects — even in affluent districts.
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Craig Newmark: Founder, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Craigslist I was lucky to receive valuable advice as a kid, and it has guided my worldview ever since.
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"I've seen more regulation go bad in technology than produce good," said Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and the head of Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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Alwaleed Philanthropies' founder, billionaire investor and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, pledged in 2015 to give his entire $32 billion fortune to charity over time.
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He also turned down offers from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to move him and his family to the United States.
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After all, he was at Lincoln Center to discuss "Paris to Pittsburgh," a new documentary about climate change financed by his nonprofit foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Called Resolve, it is funded with $225 million over five years by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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"It was unprecedented," said Ch'uya H. Lane, regional director for obesity prevention efforts at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, which is affiliated with Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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They received crucial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, a foundation created by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, which dispatched experts from the United States.
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Manny Diaz, the former mayor of Miami and a paid board member at Bloomberg Philanthropies, defected from Mr. Biden to Mr. Bloomberg several weeks later.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has assets totaling $236 billion, has supported 21 different cities with grants, technical assistance and education programs worth a combined $22.5 million.
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Democracy Fund is one of the funders of the new project, along with the Knight Foundation, Arnold Ventures, Emerson Collective, Craig Newmark Philanthropies and others.
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Mr. Anderson, who several mayors described as the most vital point of contact at Bloomberg Philanthropies, is now directing the campaign's "Mayors for Mike" coalition.
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Earlier Monday, Bloomberg publicly called for stricter gun control during an appearance in Detroit at CityLab, an event put on with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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To date, activists say they have secured more than $11 trillion in divestment commitments from more than 1,53 philanthropies, schools, pension funds, and other institutions.
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Now his foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has given $6 million to Consumer Reports, allowing it to keep a closer watch over digital products and platforms.
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Her death was announced by the Ford Foundation, where she was instrumental in establishing the National Arts Stabilization Fund, a consortium of private and corporate philanthropies.
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It kills over 156,000 each year from related diseases, costing the healthcare system about 57 billion reais ($14.1 billion), according to a statement from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Bradley Tusk is the founder and CEO of Tusk Ventures; his foundation, Tusk Montgomery Philanthropies, is working to make mobile voting happen across the United States.
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And while private philanthropies like the Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have helped to fill that void, these groups can only do so much.
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Thanks to a $32m gift his charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with Harvard's Business and Kennedy Schools, has created a year-long programme designed for serving mayors.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, through his Bloomberg Philanthropies, is the main financial force behind Beyond Coal, having donated $80 million to the campaign.
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The new initiative, called Resolve, will be funded by $225 million in backing from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The study was funded by the Rockefeller family philanthropies, which previously supported a campaign to prove Exxon knew more than it publicly admitted about climate change.
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Both mobilized help, with Bloomberg Philanthropies paying experts on power restoration and other consultants to expedite recovery in St. John and the rest of the territory.
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In response, rich countries have pledged to chip in aid, while various donors and philanthropies have created a $53 million fund to ease the transition costs.
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Her mother is the founder of Aroha Philanthropies, which is based in San Francisco and supports programs that bring arts and creativity to children and adults.
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"This whole notion of limited life does concentrate the mind," said Christopher G. Oechsli, president and chief executive of the Atlantic Philanthropies, told me in 2014.
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But with Michael Bloomberg we can simply look to his philanthropies —which have given away some $8 billion — to get a good idea of his priorities.
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They describe it as an evolution of campaigns that have scored some successes in prodding university endowments, religious groups and philanthropies to divest from fossil fuels.
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In September, Ms. Elder was chosen to lead an effort to explore partnerships between the newspaper and philanthropies or universities to further journalism in various forms.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies announced 26 cultural organizations in Austin, Texas and 27 in New Orleans, Louisiana selected to participate in the Arts Innovation and Management (AIM) program.
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Last week we looked at a blogger who highlighted a quote from MLK throwing shade towards certain philanthropies taking a weak stance to actually solving social problems.
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Major philanthropies like the Gates, Walton Family, and Broad Foundations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually in an attempt to transform American K-12 education.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies highlighted the struggles of miners in a new film, From the Ashes, to be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week.
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In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies, where he is actively involved in combating climate change, improving the state of the Baltic Sea and encouraging social entrepreneurship.
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Many attendees had long been part of an informal group of friends and associates who raised money for philanthropies or policy issues on an ad hoc basis.
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The announcement from Bloomberg Philanthropies said that until now, the university had one of the smallest endowment funds available for financial aid among its closest academic peers.
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Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg donates million to support grassroots organizing in swing states Bloomberg Philanthropies pledges M to fight coronavirus globally Biden would be nowhere without black voters.
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Another red flag -- the website for Peter Woo Philanthropies is a carbon copy of the charity websites used in the scams targeting Dog and other famous folks.
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Proceeds from the sale would go to Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable giving arm that funds causes from climate change to public health and grants for American cities.
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Each year the titans of finance flock to the Milken Institute Global Conference, where fund managers and marketers woo prospective investors and philanthropies make pitches for funding.
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PFS also appeals to philanthropies and mission-based groups because, as successful projects are reimbursed, they can reinvest their initial contributions into more projects, catalyzing more innovation.
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In one obituary, Myra was remembered as a philanthropist who chaired the boards of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.
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Facebook's plan to combat the lack of affordable housing is to build a coalition of community groups, philanthropies and companies to try to force action on the issue.
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The study provides evidence that the seminars, and the broader Law and Economics movement promoted by conservative philanthropies like the Olin Foundation, pushed American courts to the right.
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This week, President Obama will host his second and last U.S.-Africa Business Forum in New York, co-hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Lobbyists for real estate businesses and philanthropies say that, if the standard deduction doubled, fewer taxpayers would be able to claim the mortgage interest and charitable giving deductions.
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"I welcome this generous contribution from Bloomberg Philanthropies as an important, practical recognition of our need to work together, and to step up our response to climate change."
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A $1.5 million gift from the Ford Foundation and another $1 million from Atlantic Philanthropies are creating the endowment to bring Dr. Goff and the center to Manhattan.
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Hope noted that these are extremely valuable dollars because they can turn on a dime whereas traditional philanthropies can sometimes take a year or longer to award grants.
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Companies like Juul, which Bloomberg Philanthropies singles out by name, are already taking steps to curb the use of vaping products among minors, according to their own statements.
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The National Center for Arts Research at the Meadows School of Arts in Dallas, Texas, and DataArts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have merged with economic support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies is supporting local leaders around the country who are adopting changes that have proven to raise student achievement and put more students on track for college.
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It was a race: Mr. Feeney was then 21989, and Atlantic Philanthropies, a collection of private foundations he had started and funded, still had about $21980 billion left.
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He pointed out that Bloomberg Philanthropies has longstanding guidelines around not hiring any company, including management consulting firms, with ties to industries that undermine their public health work.
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Over the past few years, more than 150 mayors have participated in Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative to help make cities more focused on evidence and outcomes.
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"Nuclear power is not killing people from air pollution and climate change the way coal power is," said Antha Williams, the head of the environment program at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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At Art Basel Miami, Urban Philanthropies non-profit took up the job of organizing an exclusively afrofuturist exhibit amidst the festival's sprawling displays of black creativity in all forms.
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The thinking behind Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Business Forum is that UNGA week in New York puts more powerful people in one spot than any other single event on earth.
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Harper says that Microsoft Philanthropies will specifically put Nadella's money toward nonprofits "working on public cloud for public good projects" — essentially, giving away Microsoft cloud services and processing time.
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That's because Feeney has been quietly dedicated to donating his entire fortune to charitable causes after signing over everything to Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation he founded, three decades ago.
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We spent months with [co-founder] Dan Hill [who was formerly a director of product and performance marketing at Airbnb and whose startup connects prospective donors with local philanthropies].
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The owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks, Allen also launched a number of philanthropic efforts, which were later combined under the name Paul G. Allen Philanthropies.
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Since Mr. Bloomberg left office, his Bloomberg Philanthropies have given an additional $100 million to the project for its main academic building, called the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center.
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Businesses signal to schools and colleges, in real time, the skills they need to thrive in the global economy, and philanthropies fund innovative programs for supplemental education and training.
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On Thursday, the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the country's largest and most influential philanthropies, will name Mr. Shah to succeed Judith Rodin, who has been president for 12 years.
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The intrigue: In addition to big donations from deep-pocketed institutional donors like Bloomberg Philanthropies, individuals are also changing how they give, according to interviews and conversations we've had.
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The following year, Bloomberg Philanthropies launched an Arts Innovation and Management program that awards a combined $30 million in operating support to hundreds of cultural organizations across the country.
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The foundation would also accept donations only from U.S. citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, U.S. companies or corporate charities.
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Paris To Pittsburgh, which aired on National Geographic on December 12 and is produced by Bloomberg Philanthropies, showcases the difficult, even life-threatening impact of climate change across the country.
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Moguls, big minds and heads of state will join Michael R. Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies for the third annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum, at New York's Plaza Hotel on Sept.
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Now, the WHO, along with the Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Gates Foundation-funded health nonprofit Resolve to Save Lives (an initiative of Vital Strategies), has set out to change that.
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Former President Bill Clinton, who has said he wants other organizations to join him in the CGI mission, will speak at Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Business Forum in an unofficial handoff.
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The donation by Riyadh-based Alwaleed Philanthropies comes amid rising concern about the highly contagious disease, a leading cause of death among children, with recent outbreaks in Italy and Romania.
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As the founder of OceanX, Dalio is working with Cameron and a group of media, science and philanthropic partners such as BBC Studios, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the National Geographic Society.
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"The businesses, the nonprofits, the philanthropies, and the next-door neighbors get together to help [military families] do what we need to do," Roth-Douquet said, highlighting the team effort.
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New name, new strategic emphasis — enlisting state and local governments and philanthropies — but the same promise: a home for all down-and-out veterans in all 50 states by 2015.
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Both journalism organizations that investigated the company were financed, at least in part, by Rockefeller philanthropies, though the organizations say that their donors have no control over what they write.
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A known environmentalist, with his wife Catherine, he is also the founder of Zennström Philanthropies, a nonprofit that supports organisations combatting climate change and promoting human rights and social entrepreneurship.
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There are roughly 3.6 million middle school and high school students in the U.S. who are vaping, accounting for one-third of all e-cigarette users, according to Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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"We have re-evaluated accepting donations from the Sackler family's philanthropies and are not taking gifts from them" at present, said Scott Schell, a spokesman for Columbia, declining to elaborate.
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Mr. Grasso of Cornell pointed to philanthropies that focus on a town or an area, like the Allyn Foundation in Syracuse, N.Y., and the John R. Oishei Foundation in Buffalo.
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He has invested funds in combating flavored e-cigarettes from his charitable foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, whose former headquarters in a building he still owns is serving as his campaign headquarters.
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Princess Lamia bint Majed Al Saud, secretary general of Alwaleed Philanthropies, said the need to stamp out the disease is particularly pressing amid current humanitarian crises that increase risks of disease.
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Exxon Mobil has also pulled the Rockefeller philanthropies into its legal battles against the attorneys general investigating it, sending the groups a subpoena demanding documents and communications related to their activism.
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Financing for the 40,000-square-foot project has come from the state ($3 million) and the city ($25 million for facade improvements), with several million dollars from private foundations and philanthropies.
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I mean, I like Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg donates million to support grassroots organizing in swing states Bloomberg Philanthropies pledges M to fight coronavirus globally Biden would be nowhere without black voters.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies announced on Monday that the city of Los Angeles had won a $1 million grant as part of a competition intended to encourage cities to try creative new policies.
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How it works: Individuals like Charles Koch, Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates use their philanthropies to advocate for societal changes and interventions that they would like to see enacted by governments.
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The initiative, called "Resolve to Save Lives," is funded by a $225 million investment from three major donors: Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The initiative, called "Resolve to Save Lives," is funded by a $225 million investment from three major donors: Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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In public, he would air ads trumpeting the more than $100 million he donated to various philanthropies the year before, including Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Shutting down all these coal plants helped drive down U.S. emissions, and Bloomberg Philanthropies estimates 40 percent of the plant closures wouldn't have come to pass without the Beyond Coal campaign.
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Promise Arizona, whose programs are funded by the liberal Center for Community Change and by the Atlantic Philanthropies, among other foundations interested in immigrants' rights, has a paid staff of six.
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Affiliated with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, CNS is funded by private philanthropies as well as several governments, and also has offices in Washington, DC, and in Vienna, Austria.
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For centuries, business titans have risen in acts of ruthlessness, then washed their reputations in shows of charity, endowing monuments like libraries (Carnegie), museums (Getty), universities (Rockefeller) and plain-old philanthropies (Ford).
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It's "not the lack of what we could do, but the lack of what we're doing" that's causing America to fall behind, per James Anderson, Head of Government Innovation for Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Instead of state funds, Eisenson's salary was paid by New York University's State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, which was established 2628 months ago with a $28503 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Backed by a coalition of philanthropies and civic leaders, the teachers' union and some charter school operators, the mayor got a Republican senator from western Michigan to sponsor legislation, including the commission.
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The program has nearly reached $500 million toward a new goal of $550 million in fundraising, with money coming from a variety of wealthy Chinese, American and European families, corporations and philanthropies.
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Last month the Presidents' Council on Impact Investing, a group of impact investors and philanthropies convened by the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, issued a call to action for government and other stakeholders.
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With funding from private foundation Atlantic Philanthropies, today it is part of a global network of human rights organisations working with the Muslim communities and focusing on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The billionaire philanthropist's foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, said its Beyond Carbon initiative would lobby to close about 773 coal-fired power plants by 2030 and make the country fully reliant on clean energy.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg donates million to support grassroots organizing in swing states Bloomberg Philanthropies pledges M to fight coronavirus globally Biden would be nowhere without black voters.
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She works in the chief executive's office at Bloomberg Philanthropies, helping to manage the day-to-day operations of the charitable giving of Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York.
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The program is a collaboration between King County Elections; the county's conservation district; mobile-voting nonprofit Tusk Philanthropies; the National Cybersecurity Center; and Democracy Live, a technology firm that develops electronic balloting.
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Among the New York philanthropies with dynastic names and assets in the billions, one local charity with a nine-figure endowment has been doing its work almost invisibly — for half a century.
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The former Republican is an influential force in cities through his Bloomberg Philanthropies' American Cities Initiative, which lends financial support and expertise to address urban challenges like climate change and public transportation.
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Before the start of the election season, Bloomberg invited Pelosi to New York to speak with the board of directors of his philanthropic office, Bloomberg Philanthropies, according to a source close to Pelosi.
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Shortly after the midterms, he privately met with House Speaker Designate Nancy Pelosi in New York to discuss the outcome of the midterms and introduce her to the board members of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Rather, Voatz had conducted more than 30 pilots previously, including two in West Virginia last year that attracted the financial backing of Tusk Philanthropies, the philanthropic operation of investor and strategist Bradley Tusk.
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Now, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute has released the Global Atlas of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) in Cities that shows where all self-driving car development projects are being tested around the world.
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Since 2006, Bloomberg Philanthropies, an umbrella organization of Bloomberg's charities which includes the nonprofit Bloomberg Family Foundation, has donated billions to political interests and causes such as education, the environment and public health.
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News of the request, meanwhile, unleashed storms of protest from demographers, former census directors, and stakeholders — shopping-center operators, philanthropies, even A.C. Nielsen, the marketing research colossus — that depend on accurate census results.
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In 2016, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies to advance people and grass-roots organizations in areas that include trustworthy journalism and information security, voter protection, women in technology and veterans and military families.
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The initiative aims to accelerate research efforts and break down barriers to progress by enhancing data access and facilitating collaborations with researchers, doctors, philanthropies, patients and patient advocates, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
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Like other mayors in the Bloomberg orbit, Mr. Williams has been involved with numerous programs sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies, on everything from tackling an obesity epidemic to a love-your-block neighborhood program.
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"We wanted to reach cities that we thought had a really strong mix in the way they were serving up arts and culture," said Kate Levin, who oversees arts programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Private foundations are required by law to disburse at least 5 percent of their assets a year, a requirement meant to make sure that these taxpayer-subsidized philanthropies actually took part in charity.
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"We think the risk-reward ratio, the value of the data we collect, far exceeds the risk," said Spencer Reeder, a spokesman and director of climate and energy at Paul G. Allen Philanthropies.
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And he's the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, which includes Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, Kronos Archives, Ivory Gaming and Tusk Montgomery Philanthropies, which is working to bring mobile voting to U.S. elections.
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The Trust Project, a technology-backed news initiative made up of dozens of global news companies, announced Thursday that it raised an additional $2.25 million from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Facebook and the Democracy Fund.
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There's been interest among both donors linked to the tech industry as well as more traditional philanthropies — something Goldman chalks up to Harris' ability to speak to people in and out of Silicon Valley.
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An event on Tuesday night organized by EJF Philanthropies, a hedge fund-linked charity that funds conservation efforts, was held at the home of private equity billionaire Brian Sheth and featured a live cheetah.
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Catalyst investors include endowment funds for the University of Michigan, McGill University and the University of Toronto, public-employee pension funds in Montana and New Jersey, and major philanthropies such as the Rockefeller Foundation.
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With this in mind, Mozilla (my company), Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures and Craig Newmark Philanthropies are leading the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, a $3.5 million initiative to integrate ethics into undergraduate computer science curricula.
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The city of Austin is piloting a new blockchain platform to improve identity services for its homeless population, as part of a competitive grant awarded by the Mayor's Challenge program sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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After Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, Bloomberg announced his organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, would put together $15 million to pay the United States' contribution under the Paris climate pact.
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Using the same tactics as 'Big Tobacco,' Juul may have intentionally targeted teens The Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative is launching even as federal health and consumer protection agencies take a closer look at the products.
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But in the past 18 months, Chan has added a new job to her resume: She's also in charge of what will likely be one of the most well-funded philanthropies in human history.
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The Times's examination found billions of dollars in donations, under the Bloomberg Philanthropies umbrella, that had not been previously disclosed or itemized — corporate giving by his company, Bloomberg L.P., and from his personal checkbook.
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Tuesday, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the foundation run by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced the launch of a new $160 million initiative to curb e-cigarette use among young people in the United States.
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Logistics experts brought in by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a charitable group founded by the former New York mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, recommended a more aggressive power-restoration plan, based on their experience after Hurricane Sandy.
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On the latest episode of Recode Decode, the founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies talks with Kara Swisher about his foundation's recent donation of $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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Led by Bloomberg Philanthropies, it aims to identify the 50 highest priority coral reefs that have the best chance of surviving climate change, as a way of protecting coral reefs from climate change-induced extinction.
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The intelligence wing of India's home ministry last year drafted a note on Bloomberg Philanthropies, raising concerns that the foundation was running a campaign to "target" Indian tobacco businesses and "aggressively" lobby against the sector.
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Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who is CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies, called the move "an important step forward for public health" and said it should embolden other cities and states to follow suit.
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The studio is in the Bloomberg Center, named to acknowledge a $100 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, matching New York City's contribution toward the total cost for phase one, which is estimated at $800 million.
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Since then, the United States and its European allies have relied on an array of public and private entities, including nongovernmental organizations, academia, philanthropies, and the drug industry to respond to outbreaks of dangerous pathogens.
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China's debt is 256 percent of its G.D.P. An earlier version of this briefing also incorrectly said Bloomberg Philanthropies is investing $43 million in more than 20 small and midsize cultural organizations in seven cities.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and 23 other foundations as well as individual donors have created a $78 million Covid-19 rescue fund for New York City nonprofits.
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Over 100 mayors have endorsed Bloomberg since he launched his campaign, a fact the Times attributed to former members of Bloomberg Philanthropies who have since transitioned to his campaign pointedly reaching out to former beneficiaries.
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The former mayor of New York City has publicly announced that he hopes to give away his entire fortune before he dies — the majority of which will be donated to his philanthropic initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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He has focused much of his time on Bloomberg Philanthropies, an organization that encompasses all of Bloomberg's charitable giving and focuses on five main areas: public health, the environment, education, government innovation, and arts and culture.
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As Zika evolves and spreads, there remains an urgent need for $45 million in flexible funding from philanthropies and the private sector to help CDC protect people, especially women of reproductive age in high-risk areas.
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The trial was sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, two drug companies that supplied the drugs — Eli Lilly and Roche, with a subsidiary, Genentech — the National Institutes of Health and philanthropies, including the Alzheimer's Association.
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"(Disclosure: Bloomberg Philanthropies has contributed to Planet Word, the museum my wife is building in Washington, to promote reading and literacy.)" Friedman is married to Ann Friedman, daughter of late billionaire real estate tycoon Matthew Bucksbaum.
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With welcome leadership from the Obama administration, philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, brave elected officials and an army of advocates, this common-sense idea, killed in the 1994 Crime Act, is now once again within reach.
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After three years, Arkenstone was very slightly profitable on $5 million in revenue and 501c3 status, a strange beast in the eyes of the IRS, which associated 501c3 status with hospitals and philanthropies in those days.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies will team up with environmental U.S. non-profit the Sierra Club to focus on state-level action aimed at closing coal plants and halting a "rush to build new (natural) gas plants," it said.
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The funding she received from Beyond Carbon, Bloomberg Philanthropies' climate-change campaign, helped her push through a slew of campaign ads for the final three weeks of her election, which she said contributed to her victory.
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That discrepancy is showcased in an open letter that Michael Bloomberg publishes every year to explain the direction of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which gives away hundreds of millions of dollars annually, much of it to promote health.
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Local climate policies that are already on the books in the US are poised to cut down greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels), according to a December report from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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An early and shrewd investor in tech start-ups, he transferred his fortune to an outfit called Atlantic Philanthropies in 1984, and has since given almost all $8 billion of it away — mostly in total secrecy.
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Later this year, backed by $9.5 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies and JPMorgan Chase, Colorado will begin offering hands-on training, starting in high school, in financial services, information technology and health care as well as manufacturing.
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Consultants "are able to talk the language that's understood by corporate philanthropies and the private sector — they are comfortable with that way of thinking but many of them aren't anywhere close to the ground," he said.
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Scientists with the University of Washington in conjunction with Paul G. Allen Philanthropies are sending robots to Antarctica for as long as a year in what will be the longest mission ever undertaken in the region.
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"Once we saw just how much big soda was spending [on soda taxes], Mike [Bloomberg] knew that he needed to up his investment to have a chance of competing," Howard Wolfson of Bloomberg Philanthropies told me.
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"Over the next year, I will lead a dedicated, combined effort by governments, private industry, researchers, physicians, patients, and philanthropies to target investment, coordinate across silos, and increase access to information for everyone in the cancer community."
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In 85033, Bloomberg Philanthropies selected Ithaca as one of 35 Champion Cities from a field of 350 cities, denoting its Municipal Drug Strategy as an innovative, data-driven, scalable and high-impact approach to the overdose crisis.
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Because of his extensive network, long record in politics and business, and significant philanthropic efforts over the years, including his own Bloomberg philanthropies, he'll also have an experienced and well-paid set of campaign advisers and surrogates.
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Ms. Hunt's philanthropies included many organizations in Dallas, where she lived all her life: the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
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He is president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global nonprofit initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and part of the global nonprofit Vital Strategies.
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All of those funds flow not just from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Mr. Bloomberg's super PAC, Independence USA, but through an array of advocacy groups that rely on him for donations in the tens of millions of dollars.
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Two of these in West Virginia attracted the financial backing of Tusk Philanthropies, the philanthropic operation of investor, operator and strategist Bradley Tusk, who was featured last year in The New Yorker for his involvement in both efforts.
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DCA is also engaging in a number of initiatives, from supporting pipeline programs created by the City University of New York and private philanthropies to funding the Cultural Institutions Group to support projects that directly promote diversity efforts.
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Though the brothers Charles and David Koch are best known for their work supporting Republicans, they also fund a network of philanthropies that support efforts to, among other things, questionclimate change and encourage conservative thinking on college campuses.
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"He's just a very effective executive and manager who's got a strong set of beliefs and value," Walter Isaacson, a senior advisor at Perella Weinberg and a longtime board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies, told CNBC in an interview.
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But vaccines meant to protect only poor people in faraway countries usually must wait for donor governments and philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, even though we know these plagues cross borders.
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He is president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global nonprofit initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a part of the global nonprofit Vital Strategies.
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He was also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Philanthropies and a founder of ReServe, which has connected more than 2,600 adults 55 and older with full-time jobs in government and nonprofit private agencies in 12 states.
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This will be the first election in the country in which all those who are eligible will be able to vote online, according to Tusk Philanthropies, an entity founded by the venture capitalist and political strategist Bradley Tusk.
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Mr. Guterres needs to use every bit of skill and good will to compel and cajole member nations and philanthropies to make the cholera campaign succeed — and with it, to settle the United Nations' moral debt to Haiti.
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The societal units protecting workers best are our healthy communities — where local businesses, philanthropies, the public school system and universities, and local government come together to support a permanent education-to-work-to-life-long-skill-building pipeline.
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There were scientists and skeptics, doctors and farmers, businesses and philanthropies, all recognizing that when we're talking about editing genomes, everyone with genes (or who grows genes, or eats genes, or treats genes) has skin in the game.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organization to come under scrutiny.
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But a less noticeable beneficiary are a pair of charities that were gifted Canada Goose shares from Bain Capital partners and employees: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (1.9m shares) and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (454,000 shares).
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The city of Tulsa has received $1 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies to fund public art commemorating Black Wall Street, Pérez Art Museum Miami has received a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and more.
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Plus a debate on "The Future of Cities" with Marc Morial of the National Urban League; Jim Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies; and Peter Scher, chair of the Washington region and Head of Corporate Responsibility for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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But the government can afford to finance only 15 percent of that, according to a recent report by my organization, the Paulson Institute, along with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Green Finance Committee of China Society for Banking and Finance.
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The event marked the debate debut of former New York City mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg donates million to support grassroots organizing in swing states Bloomberg Philanthropies pledges M to fight coronavirus globally Biden would be nowhere without black voters.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A group of philanthropies working with Facebook Inc to study the social network's impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had failed to make data available to researchers as pledged.
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Other families have distanced themselves from their beginnings in fossil fuels, including the Rockefellers, who have divested their philanthropies of fossil fuel investments and taken on Exxon Mobil, the company that much of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil became.
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A progressive Democrat who hosted Mr. Bloomberg but did not endorse him, Mr. Lumumba also attended the Harvard program and received from Bloomberg Philanthropies a $1 million grant to his city as a winner of the Public Art Challenge.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies expanded its Arts Innovation and Management program to seven new cities: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Denver, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. Printed Matter will launch a second store inside the new home of the Swiss Institute on June 21.
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Ben Labolt, a partner at the company, was a top communications advisor to Bloomberg Philanthropies, an organization that funnels some of the former mayor's wealth and resources to address issues such as the environment, public education and health, among others.
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Still, Janet Camarena, the director of transparency initiatives at the Foundation Center, a nonprofit that analyzes philanthropies, says both of the foundations can be seen as celebrity charities that solicit donations through the large network and name recognition of their founders.
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"These big philanthropies are changing the city and the region by bringing people in, and so being another magnet for talent," said Margaret O'Mara, an associate professor of history at the University of Washington who studies modern capitalism and urban affairs.
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"I think it's good that there are different philanthropies and different organizations that can put competing ideas out about how to do research or science," he said, adding, "I fundamentally believe in that competition that you want different ideas out there."
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A new peer-reviewed analysis of hundreds of millions of dollars in climate and energy-related funding from a number of major philanthropies from 8503-2015 shows they devoted few resources to pushing carbon capture and none to nuclear power.
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On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies and self-described nerd, talks about his foundation's recent donation of $2500 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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The summit, whose sponsors include Google, Facebook, the United Nations and Bloomberg Philanthropies, is planned for September 12 to 14 in California, less than 60 days before the U.S. mid-term elections where climate is expected to be an issue.
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In a twist, the trust that manages money for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest public health philanthropies, is the biggest outside investor in Coca-Cola Femsa, which is the largest Coke bottler outside the United States.
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In a recent interview at the New York headquarters of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mr. Wolfson and other staff members described their House election strategy, which involved spending on digital advertising beginning in September and spending "big" and "late" on television advertising.
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Voucher advocates like DeVos embraced any evidence of learning gains for students using vouchers to switch to private schools, and a number of think tanks and large philanthropies like the Walton Family Foundation also lined up to support this education reform.
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He is currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global non-profit initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and part of the global non-profit Vital Strategies.
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The relocation — from the building that historically housed Bloomberg Philanthropies — comes as the billionaire self-funder and former New York mayor's campaign pushes past 300 staffers at his headquarters and more than 200 more now active in the states, officials confirmed.
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But if I thought that it was going to be run in a way responsive to Wall Street, I would instead do something else, and have the money distributed to these philanthropies, and not have it all tied to Berkshire.
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The Death Penalty Information Center, which is based in Washington, is funded by individual donors and the Roderick MacArthur Justice Center, the Open Society Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Death Penalty Project, a Proteus Action League initiative and M. Quinn Delaney.
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Bloomberg's staff has grown so quickly that the team has had to move offices, said an aide to the former mayor, from the Bloomberg Philanthropies building in New York to the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street.
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In the 20 years since they established their foundation, the Gateses and their other rich peer, Warren Buffett, have made it bigger in assets than the older, legacy philanthropies that are icons, those named after people like Ford, Rockefeller, or Carnegie.
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In the formative years of government- and subscriber-funded public television and radio, Mr. Singer was said to have been instrumental in galvanizing federal officials, philanthropies and academics to seed the public airwaves with quality programming and to finance future development.
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"Finland has come very far ... and now they're going to the next level, with innovation," said Kelly Henning, director of the public health program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, an organization working to promote impactful tobacco control policies, founded by the former New York mayor.
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After World War I, during the 1920s and extending into the depths of the Great Depression, a reform movement once again rose, combining philanthropies and progressive policymakers at all levels of government, arguing that the country needed a national health care program.
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"Retiring enough coal to displace the pollution from 89 million cars is more than a major campaign milestone; it is an astonishing victory for public health and climate action," Antha Williams, leader of the Bloomberg Philanthropies environmental program, said in a statement.
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Tony Romm, Recode Priscilla Chan is running one of the most ambitious philanthropies in the world Meet Priscilla Chan, a doctor, an educator, a philanthropist and the lesser-known half of a Silicon Valley power couple tasked with giving away $70 billion.
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Earlier this month, Bloomberg Philanthropies chose three international research centers to lead a new $20 million global tobacco watchdog group called Stop (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products), with partners in the United Kingdom, Thailand and France, that will partly focus on social marketing.
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Driving the news: Senior Director of Microsoft Philanthropies Jane Broom told Axios in an interview this week that "the probability is high" that the software giant will invest more in housing in its backyard, following an initial $500 million pledge announced in January.
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A signature component of the proposed Bloomberg initiative will be a "Mayors Challenge," through which city executives will be invited to compete for six- and seven-figure grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies, awarded to mayors who draw up compelling proposals for policy experimentation.
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Catalyst investors – generally locked in for the duration of a fund's lifespan – include endowments for the University of Michigan, McGill University and the University of Toronto, public-employee pension funds in Montana and New Jersey, and major philanthropies such as the Rockefeller Foundation.
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"Multilateral organizations, national governments, the private sector and philanthropies must work together to slow the pace of the outbreak, help countries protect their most vulnerable citizens and accelerate the development of the tools to bring this epidemic under control," Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said.
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Definers pressed reporters to explore the financial connections between Mr. Soros's family or philanthropies and groups that were members of Freedom from Facebook, such as Color of Change, an online racial justice organization, as well as a progressive group founded by Mr. Soros's son.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden on Tuesday announced the start of a new public health initiative funded by private philanthropies to fight heart disease and stroke and shore up infectious disease capabilities around the world.
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"It's pretty clear the White House has fumbled on pulling out of the Paris agreement and the rest of the country has picked up the ball and is running down the field," said Daniel Firger, who is leading the America's Pledge effort for Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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According to Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director of the Solutions Project, the idea for the fund came from co-founder Mark Ruffalo after an Environmental Grantmakers Association session where activists impressed the urgency for philanthropies to support leaders on the frontline of making change.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A small Indian non-profit funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies will not be allowed to carry out tobacco-control work in New Delhi after it failed to disclose its funding, according to a city government official and a memo seen by Reuters.
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Recently, the company has tried to rehab its image by taking on more diversity initiatives such as selecting a female CEO, though apparently there weren't any women interested in the job, and donating to female-empowerment philanthropies like Girls Who Code has brought some backlash.
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Julie Wise, the director of elections in King County, said the election would be "a key step in moving toward electronic access" for voters across the region, in a statement released on Wednesday from Tusk Philanthropies, the nonprofit partnering with the county's board of elections.
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Conceived by Barbara Nelson, an architect in Troy, and Adam Frelin, a professor at the University at Albany, and supported by the cities' mayors and many community groups, the $1.2 million project was one of four winners of the national Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
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Since leaving city hall, Bloomberg, who is worth an estimated $52 billion, has dedicated his time to Bloomberg Philanthropies, an organization that encompasses all of Bloomberg's charitable giving and focuses on five main arenas: public health, the environment, education, government innovation, and arts and culture.
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Its CEO, Andy Sharpless, says its fundraising jumped partly because of its campaign to stop the Trump administration's plans to expand offshore oil drilling, and also because of big donations by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Wyss Foundation to expand ocean conservation efforts around the world.
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In a field of philanthropies and educational institutions that profess to value inclusion and equality, innovative people and ideas, the data suggest emotional behavior by people who are making decisions to hire only people who look like themselves or whom they've known for a long time.
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More than three-quarters of cities invested in mobilizing autonomous vehicles anticipate using them to solve "last-mile" transit gaps, such as transporting people between rail stations and employment centers or shuttles circulating within larger corporate campuses, according to a Bloomberg Philanthropies survey of cities out today.
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Also on Wednesday, the Rhodes Trust announced a partnership worth £75 million, or about $108 million, with the Atlantic Philanthropies, a time-limited foundation established by Charles F. Feeney, who made his billions in duty-free stores and has vowed to give away nearly all his money.
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Of note, one key difference between US self-made billionaires and the rest of the world is that they tend to cash out or pass much of their wealth to philanthropies, said Steven Crosby, senior managing director of global private banking and wealth management at PwC.
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Speaking with Recode's Teddy Schleifer at the 2019 Code Conference, Shah said that to do the most good, private philanthropies like Rockefeller should be working hand-in-hand with politicians who are "conscientious, more informed, and more evidence- and data-based" than today's trendy right-wing populists.
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Before then, in 22009, he had been recruited to be chairman of the Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy, a private body that was organized in response to populist attacks on philanthropies as parsimonious institutions that are mainly interested in self-perpetuation while enjoying favored tax status.
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The move by the foundation follows similar big-dollar donations pledged by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies earlier this month that were aimed at supporting global response efforts to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected and killed thousands across the globe.
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Bloomberg kept his plans under wraps this week, when he hosted a swanky reunion party for former city employees in the Manhattan offices of Bloomberg Philanthropies — the charity from which he funds national and global efforts to reduce smoking, combat climate change and increase college enrollment.
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The Global Atlas of Autonomous Vehicles in Cities, a joint effort between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute, shows which city governments are testing AVs, and more importantly, it shows how few cities are preparing for the onslaught of self-driving cars that is expected in the next decade.
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He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane University, the Overseers of Harvard University, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Society of American Historians, the Carnegie Institution for Science and My Brother's Keeper Alliance.
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But localism can also display itself in greater elasticity among private philanthropy, public policy and the financial sector: As Mr. Katz and Mr. Nowak document in their book, private businesses and philanthropies have worked alongside city governments to achieve important reforms in places like Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Chattanooga, Tenn.
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After President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced it would put together $15 million to "support the operations" of the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change, the arm of the UN that coordinates the Paris accord.
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David Jr. says that while he's sad to see it go, he and the rest of the Rockefellers take comfort in knowing the proceeds will fund good causes, from the Museum of Modern Art and the Council on Foreign Relations to Rockefeller University and the various Rockefeller philanthropies.
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Now, in a coincidental twist of timing, Wikipedia's parent, the Wikimedia Foundation, is announcing a donation aimed at helping the group better cope with situations just like this: Craig Newmark Philanthropies, founded by the Craigslist founder, is giving $2.5 million to Wikimedia to help it improve its security.
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For context, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world's preeminent philanthropies and the one CZI will most likely be compared to in the years to come, had an endowment of nearly $40 billion in 2015, not including another $37 billion it had already given away.
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It is time that the leaders of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom keep their promise and partner with low-income countries, development banks, philanthropies, and private sector leaders to launch a Global Health Security Challenge Fund to make good on direct investments in preparedness.
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It may explain why, in partnering with the city of Denver and the National Cybersecurity Center, a non-profit organization that was originally created as an office within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security 11 years ago, Tusk Philanthropies again invited Voatz as a partner in Denver's mobile voting endeavor.
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Wealth Matters The two imposing brownstones on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that are home to Bloomberg Philanthropies give off the aura of a modern-day Medici palace, a fitting setting for Michael R. Bloomberg, media mogul, former mayor of New York and one of the top philanthropists in America.
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The couple broadened their commitment to medical education and research in 2018, when they established Jonas Philanthropies, not only to advance the nursing profession but also to help returning veterans, treat low vision and blindness and address the impact of toxic chemicals, contaminants and pollutants on prenatal and child health. Mrs.
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Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; mayor of New York City, 23-13 One of the biggest challenges in education today is an ideological disagreement over whether we should focus on getting every student accepted to a four-year college, or whether we should place far more emphasis on career preparation.
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Since the start of his campaign, more than 50 employees of Bloomberg Philanthropies have moved across town to his Times Square campaign headquarters as paid staff members, including the foundation's chief executive, Patricia E. Harris, a former New York deputy mayor, and James Anderson, previously the foundation's head of government innovation.
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Dr. Hill left to become managing director at Ithaka S+R, an educational nonprofit that is among several organizations participating in an effort that Bloomberg Philanthropies announced in December called the American Talent Initiative, which is aimed at increasing the number of low- and moderate-income students enrolled at top colleges.
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Mexico's tax was a crucial step because it was "a point of proof that it can be done and have an impact" on consumption, said Kelly Henning, who leads public health programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies, the former New York City mayor's charity which helped fund the campaign that pushed for the Mexican tax.
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Richard Attias is the founder and executive chairman of Richard Attias & Associates (RAA), a global advisory firm and minority subsidiary of WPP that develops communications strategies and live public events for governments, corporations, and institutions including Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Public Investment Fund, the Misk Foundation, the International Olympic Committee, and the World Bank.
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With these questions in mind, there are a few recommendations policymakers, businesses, and advocates can keep in mind to increase the resilience of fire- and storm-vulnerable regions while also prioritizing equity: Philanthropies are already playing a big role in thinking about how the goals of resiliency and equity can work together.
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"Road safety is an issue that does not receive anywhere near the attention it deserves -- and it really is one of our great opportunities to save lives around the world," Michael R Bloomberg, Founder and CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries, said in a statement.
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Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, is donating $240 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to create a fund that would help low-income and moderate-income students attend without having to worry about the cost, his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, announced on Sunday.
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Richard Attias is the founder and executive chairman of Richard Attias & Associates, a global advisory firm and minority subsidiary of WPP that develops communications strategies and live public events for governments, corporations, and institutions including the Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Public Investment Fund, the Misk Foundation, the International Olympic Committee, and the World Bank.
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This week, the heads of 250 major national foundations — the Barr Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Surdna Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Bush Foundation, Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, Ford Foundation, and McKnight Foundation — signed a joint statement in opposition to the proposed funding cuts.
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This partnership – which has invested more than $100 million to date in communities that span the country from Kivalina, AK to Boston, MA, from Bastrop, TX to Minot, ND – has allowed us an even closer look at what is possible only when private philanthropies have strong and robust partners in the federal government.
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This fund would pool and leverage resources from existing financing institutions, such as the World Bank, bilateral development agencies such as USAID and the United Kingdom Department for International Development, and international philanthropies to "match" commitments from governments – to invest their capital in implementing their national health security action plans, linking payments to measurable progress.
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A coalition of philanthropies led by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, and Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist, was expected to announce on Wednesday that they will cover the approximately $200,000 costs of a pavilion to showcase efforts of American states, cities and businesses in meeting the goals of the Paris agreement.
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This month, the Washington State district that covers Seattle will host the first-ever election in which all voters will be able to use a web portal on their phones (or computers) provided by the company Democracy Live (which has received support from the same philanthropy — Tusk Philanthropies — that is supporting the Voatz app).
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The Seattle Times reported Wednesday that the election beginning Wednesday for the King Conservation District Board of Supervisors will be handled entirely by an online portal set up by state organizers in conjunction with Tusk Philanthropies, which told the Times that the election is the first ever in the U.S. to be entirely handled online.
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The Seattle Times reported Wednesday that the election beginning Wednesday for the King Conservation District Board of Supervisors will be handled entirely by an online portal set up by state organizers in conjunction with Tusk Philanthropies, which told the Times that the election is the first ever in the U.S. to be entirely handled online.
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More than 1 percent of the building's overall budget of $130 million (funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the city) was invested in new artworks by Mr. Ritchie, Michael Riedel, Matthew Day Jackson and Alison Elizabeth Taylor, as well as in the restoration and relocation of a historic 50-foot-long mural by Ilya Bolotowsky.
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That's the vision our organizations share, and it's why Rare and Oceana are working with Bloomberg Philanthropies' Vibrant Oceans Initiative on its three priority interventions: establishing science-based management of industrial fishing fleets, inspiring adoption of sustainable small-scale fishery management practices, and creating market incentives for regional governments to take advantage of products from local fishermen.
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"We're grateful for the significant support we have received from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and our campaign has unquestionably benefited from a strong focus on data-driven metrics of success at the same time as we fight for a just transition for coal workers and communities," said Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, in a statement.
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The way we lift American workers is not by building higher walls, but rather stronger communities — where business, philanthropies, the local school system and local government forge adaptive coalitions to enable every worker to engage in lifelong learning and every company to access global markets and every town to attract the smart risk-takers who start companies.
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Held at the Prada Foundation headquarters — one of the more compelling private artistic philanthropies — and on a set constructed for the occasion and that evoked a corrida (some called it a de Chirico painting, an inevitable default whenever there is a colonnade) the show made the case for Milan's position as a thriving laboratory for experimental industrial design.
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He made commercially lucrative deals with despots and dictators, inspired fevered international conspiracy theories with his work for the Trilateral Commission, helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy when President Gerald Ford told it to drop dead (sort of), and gave away untold millions of dollars in support of the arts, medical research, historic preservation and other philanthropies.
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Go deeper: What Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy says about Michael Bloomberg Ranking countries by how much of their GDP is held by philanthropies "Giving Circles," which pool money for a cause, are on the rise For space billionaires, their companies are their gift Donor-advised funds: A tax break now, money for charity later Silicon Valley's brand of philanthropy
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Although many American politicians like to sing the praises of Theodore Roosevelt as the author of such a policy during his ill-fated run for the presidency in 1912, there were many state officials, health-related philanthropies and other progressive thinkers during the first decades of the 20th century who advocated adopting protective health plans such as those in Germany and Britain.
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The city prevailed in a lawsuit challenging the flavored tobacco ordinance, which other municipalities use as a model for their efforts to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products, according to Ilana Knopf, director of the Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center, which receives funding from New York State to work on tobacco initiatives but not from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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The Markup co-founders Angwin, Larson and executive director Sue Gardner (the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation), are backed by a $20 million donation from Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies; $2 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; and additional support from the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, according to a statement.
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"Everyone has a right to breathe clean air, and the Beyond Coal Campaign will continue to be a leading force in helping the country move away from dirty polluting coal to a clean energy economy that protects our health and helps tackle climate change," said Antha Williams, the head of Environmental Programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has given $85033 million to the Sierra Club's anti-coal campaign.
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With the $160 million commitment, Bloomberg Philanthropies and its partners will look to achieve five main goals: the removal of flavored e-cigarettes from the market; ensure that e-cigarette products are reviewed by the FDA before they reach the market; stop companies from marketing to kids; halt online sales until a satisfactory method of age verification can be developed; and track underage e-cigarette usage.
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These properties have led philanthropies like the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation to underwrite research on cover crops, while Monsanto, together with the Walton Family Foundation, recently put up the money to support the Soil Health Partnership, a five-year project of the National Corn Growers Association to identify, test and measure the impact of cover cropping and other practices to improve soil health.
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An initiative to combat fake news raised $2000 million from Craiglist's founder and Facebook The Trust Project, which helps platforms identity high-quality news, raised money and is becoming a full-fledged nonprofit, Sara Fischer reports: The Trust Project, a technology-backed news initiative made up of dozens of global news companies, announced Thursday that it raised an additional $20203 million from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Facebook and the Democracy Fund.
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Thus, in Bloomberg World -- a vast interconnected matrix of loyalists who work at Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg Associates, or any other number of affiliated entities -- there is a strong and resounding interest in making sure Mike Bloomberg stays relevant -- and there is no better a formula for the ex-mayor staying front-and-center in the national discourse than for the media to be incessantly speculating about his presidential aspirations.
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Looming over the solemn gathering were the brazen anti-Semitic slurs and chants that echoed hundreds of miles away this weekend, when neo-Nazis and other white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, "How can this be in this country, in this city, so near to the graves of patriots who fought for freedom and liberty in this place?" said Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, referring to the vandalism.
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In "As It Was: A Memoir" (Prospecta Press, $27.50), Mr. Pennoyer, still a practicing lawyer at 90 and a veteran of public service and private philanthropies, engagingly reveals a storybook city that most New Yorkers never saw and those who did have largely forgotten, from the hungry scavenging through mountains of garbage in the Queens Meadowlands before Robert Moses leveled them for the 1939 World's Fair to a sheltered upbringing right after the Lindbergh baby kidnapping when a fellow student, Gloria Vanderbilt, was delivered to grade school in a Rolls-Royce with a guard riding shotgun.
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James E. Canales President and Trustee Barr Foundation Boston, MA Patricia E. Harris Chief Executive Officer Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, NY Phillip W. Henderson President Surdna Foundation New York, NY Diane Kaplan President and CEO Rasmuson Foundation Anchorage, AK Earl Lewis President The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York, NY Shawn D. McCaney Executive Director William Penn Foundation Philadelphia, PA Rip Rapson President and CEO The Kresge Foundation Troy, MI Jennifer Ford Reedy President The Bush Foundation St. Paul, MN Douglas Bitonti Stewart Executive Director Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Southfield, MI Darren Walker President Ford Foundation New York, NY Kate Wolford President The McKnight Foundation Minneapolis, MN
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Bloomberg declared his actions Wednesday as a "war on coal," embracing a term Republicans use to attack clean-energy advocates, saying that the Trump administration and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE are wrong to say that the war is being fought mainly in Washington, D.C. "These are the groups that are fighting the war on coal, and it's happening all across America, and they are winning," Bloomberg said of the groups receiving funds from his Bloomberg Philanthropies organization.
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BIRTHDAYS: Dr. Jud Feldman (hat tip: grandson Charley) ... Tim Pataki, special assistant to the President, is 32 ... Brent Colburn, VP of comms at The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and a DoD and Obama 2012 alum, is 43 ... Meridith Webster, global head of public affairs at Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg LP and an Obama WH alum (h/ts Ben Chang) ... Politico's Dana Rubinstein, Josefa Velasquez and Katya Moukhina … Lynda Tran, 270 Strategies founding partner and CBS News contributor (h/t Drew Godinich) ... Caitlyn Morrison, account coordinator at Waxman Strategies and recent LA transplant, is 23 (h/t Stephanie Benedict) ... Brian Austin, consultant at Kaiser Associates (h/t wife Emily Stephenson, who just started at Politico) ... Emily Steel, a TV and media reporter at the NYT and a WSJ and FT alum ... Carl Kasell, formerly of NPR (whose voice is on HIS answering machine?) … Rep.
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