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Alliance for Catholic Education

  • 1993
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Annenberg Challenge

  • 1993
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Improving Public Understanding of Technology

  • 1993
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Transforming His City’s Worst Neighborhood (Atlanta)

  • 1993
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Adopting a Whole Neighborhood (Tangelo Park)

  • 1993
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Saving Bosnians and Serbs

  • 1993
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Saving the Joffrey Ballet

  • 1993
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Prostate Cancer Foundation

  • 1993
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Scuttling HillaryCare with Faxed Memos

  • 1993
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Bolstering Lutheran Tradition

  • 1992
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Tikvah Fund

  • 1992
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A National Park for Vermont

  • 1992
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Rowan University

  • 1992
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Math and Science for All

  • 1992
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JSTOR Makes Good Research Accessible

  • 1992
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Bill Gates Helps Mass-produce DNA Arrays

  • 1992
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Disney Wilderness Preserve

  • 1991
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$1 Billion Annenberg Art Collection Donated to the Metropolitan Museum

  • 1991
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Aaron Diamond Foundation Unmasks HIV’s Weak Spots

  • 1991
  • Medicine & Health

Mind-Body Links Uncovered by Templeton

  • 1991
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Fort Worth Zoo

  • 1991
  • Public-Policy Reform

The Energy Foundation

  • 1991
  • Public-Policy Reform

Backscratching Philanthropy Sows Havoc

  • 1991
  • Public-Policy Reform

Institute for Justice

  • 1991
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Campaigning Against Tobacco

  • 1991
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Sisters of Life

  • 1991
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Youth Entrepreneurs (Kansas and Missouri)

  • 1991
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Central European University

  • 1991
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Painting a Target on Autism

  • 1991
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Pat Rooney and Educational Choice

  • 1991
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Walton Family Foundation’s Support for Charter Schools

  • 1991
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Training Brains for Business

  • 1991
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Beating Homelessness in Chicago

  • 1991
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Legal Aid for Entrepreneurs

  • 1990
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Teach For America

  • 1990
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Advancing the Science of Business-building

  • 1990
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MANNA from Heaven

  • 1990
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Synthesizing Religion and Democratic Capitalism

  • 1990
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Milken Archive of Jewish Music

  • 1990
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Carnegie Hall is Rescued, and Reoriented

  • 1990
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Fisher Houses Created for Families of Hospitalized Military

  • 1990
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Taking on the Top Cause of Preventable Death

  • 1990
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Civil War Land Purchases

  • 1990
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Andorra Forest

  • 1989
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Reviving the Bison by Eating It

  • 1989
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Atlanta Botanical Garden Fuqua Centers

  • 1989
  • Medicine & Health

Leading a Charge Against Psychiatric Disorders

  • 1989
  • Public-Policy Reform

Reinventing Development Economics

  • 1989
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New Approach to Race Discrimination

  • 1989
  • Education

Posse Foundation

  • 1989
  • Prosperity

Funding a Harlem Rebound

  • 1989
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Homes for Philly’s Homeless

  • 1989
  • Overseas

Reinventing Development Economics

  • 1989
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A Cool Billion After Armenia’s Earthquake

  • 1988
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Fighting Poverty With Data

  • 1988
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A Think Tank for Family Reinforcement

  • 1988
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Pew Warms to Climate Change

  • 1988
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StepUp Ministry Encourages Work

  • 1988
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Ralph Beeson’s Orthodox Philanthropy

  • 1988
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American Land Conservation Program

  • 1987
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Moses Asch and American Folk Music

  • 1987
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National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • 1987
  • Arts & Culture

A New Generation Discovers Jazz at Lincoln Center

  • 1987
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Using Economic Incentives to Sustain Predators

  • 1987
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Matching Local Health-care Solutions (49 states)

  • 1987
  • Overseas

Donating Drugs to Stop Dreadful Diseases

  • 1987
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Partners in Health

  • 1987
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Young Americans Center for Financial Education

Financial Literacy for Young Americans (Colorado)
  • 1987
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Kohlers Fly to the Aid of Endangered Swans and Cranes

  • 1987
  • Prosperity

Supporting Local Health-care Solutions

  • 1987
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Guiding Poor Kids to Business

  • 1986
  • Religion

Sponsoring Low-income Children in Catholic Schools

  • 1986
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Bradley Foundation Puts School Choice on the Map

  • 1986
  • Medicine & Health

Development of the Automated DNA Sequencer

  • 1986
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Health Surveys and Patient-centered Care

  • 1986
  • Medicine & Health

Guinea Worm Eradication

  • 1986
  • Public-Policy Reform

Organizing School Choice

  • 1986
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Creating State Think Tanks

  • 1986
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ACLU LGBT Project

  • 1986
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Sparking Welfare Reform

  • 1986
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From State to Local (Minnesota)

  • 1986
  • Overseas

Mobilizing African Aid

  • 1986
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Business and Philanthropy Transform Exurbia (Orange County)

  • 1985
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Eradicating Polio

  • 1985
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Training the Homeless to Do for Themselves

  • 1985
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Helping Immigrant Families Flourish

  • 1985
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Keck Observatory

  • 1985
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Minting New Democrats

  • 1985
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LDS Charities

  • 1984
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Koch Brothers Take Up Advocacy

  • 1984
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Religion in Public Life

  • 1984
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A Foundation Behind the Iron Curtain

  • 1984
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Leadership Network Helps Build Megachurches

  • 1984
  • Overseas

Archaeology Goes Donor-funded

  • 1984
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Opening Former Communist Societies

  • 1984
  • Arts & Culture

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

  • 1984
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Monterey Bay Aquarium

  • 1984
  • Education

Hillsdale College Shifts to Private Funding

  • 1984
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Job Training for Hard Cases

  • 1983
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Turning Addicts Into Workers

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