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InternetNews November 4, 2009	Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation Moving Forward Microsoft's open source foundation still doesn't have a full-time leader or new projects, but advocates say things are progressing.
InternetNews September 28, 2010	CodePlex Foundation Rebrands as Outercurve Open source CodePlex Foundation, a Microsoft-sponsored initiative, re-brands as Outercurve in an effort to eliminate confusion with the software giant's forge of the same name. So what changed?
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AFP eWire April 12, 2004	U.S. Foundation Giving Declines Slightly in 2003 Grantmaking foundations in the United States gave slightly less in 2003 campared to the previous year.
AFP eWire July 31, 2006	California Community Foundations Merge, Form Fifth Largest in the United States Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Community Foundation are expected to merge at the beginning of 2007, creating the fifth-largest community foundation in the United States.
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Information Today May 13, 2010	Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, announced a new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia.
AFP eWire April 20, 2010	2009 Saw Record Decline in Foundation Giving The recent economic crisis caused the more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent -- by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center.
IndustryWeek November 17, 2010	Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year.
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2006	Communications Par Excellence Here are the Council on Foundations' Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications program, which recognizes and encourages effective communications by foundations and corporate giving programs: Skoll Foundation... etc.
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AFP eWire August 1, 2005	Operating Style Key Factor in Foundation Expenses A new study of the expense and compensation patterns of the 10,000 largest grantmaking foundations in the U.S. suggests not only that there are vast differences among these entities, but also operating style may be the most critical factor in determining and explaining such expenditures.
AFP eWire October 21, 2004	Community Foundations See Strong Gains in 2003 Two new surveys by the Columbus Foundation and the Council on Foundations show that the community foundation field had a strong year in 2003, primarily because of the steadily improving economy.
AFP eWire August 8, 2005	Foundation Giving Rises in 2004 A new study reports that giving by the United State's grantmaking foundations rose 7 percent to an estimated $32.4 billion in 2004, reversing the declines of the previous two years.
AFP eWire August 7, 2006	Foundation Giving Exceeds $33 Billion in 2005 Buoyed by the establishment of new foundations, a slowly growing economy and support for relief efforts for the Southeast Asia tsunami and Gulf Coast hurricanes, giving by U.S. foundations increased to an estimated $33.8 billion in 2005, according to a new report.
PC Magazine March 16, 2005 Cade Metz	Your Request Is Granted We go inside the soup-to-nuts Web site for running charitable foundations online.
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On Wall Street June 1, 2009	Page Eberstadt Snow Page Eberstadt Snow spent over 10 years with The Pew Charitable Trusts. She speaks about the difficulties currently faced by non-profits.
Chemistry World November 26, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Gates Foundation champions open access The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, US, has adopted a new policy that requires free, unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research that the foundation funds
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InternetNews March 17, 2006 Clint Boulton	Microsoft Unloads Data Warehouse Software Microsoft said it will release Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, its data warehouse and collaboration software, to manufacturing today.
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AFP eWire June 12, 2012	Growth in U.S. Foundation Giving Fails to Keep Pace With Inflation Giving by U.S. foundations showed a modest increase in 2011, totaling an estimated $46.9 billion and up 2.2 percent from the year before. After accounting for inflation, however, contributions by U.S. foundations were down slightly from 2010.
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Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2005 Bryson & Gast	Board Briefing: CEOs on the Board What are the advantages and limitations of CEOs on foundation boards? If the CEO is on the board, should he or she have full voting rights? How do your non-profit colleagues approach this decision?
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AFP eWire November 23, 2010	Foundations Likely to Increase Giving in 2011 It may take several years for giving to match the peak level recorded in 2008, according to estimates reported by the Foundation Center.
Information Today December 3, 2015	CHORUS Helps NSF Disseminate Its Research Results CHORUS signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation to help expand the agency's public access to its research results in accordance with its public access plan from early 2015.
AFP eWire June 26, 2006	Buffett to Give Wealth to Charity Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the world, will gradually give away 85% of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations.
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Investment Advisor April 2007	Group Think-April 2007 The SEC cuts fees charged to public companies... The NASD Investor Education Foundation launched a grant program... etc.
AFP eWire July 2, 2007	Case Foundation Seeks Public Input on Grant Ideas The Washington, D.C.-based Case Foundation is calling for the public to submit ideas on how to improve communities and will be awarding grants up to $35,000 for the best proposals.
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