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Philanthropic Action for America’s Mental Health System
Long before COVID-19 became a pandemic, America’s mental health system was failing to meet the need
s of people requiring care.
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The Value of Building an Interdisciplinary Scientific Workforce — A Call to Philanthropy
The challenges that science strives to solve are increasingly complex, and making progress toward t
hem requires constant innovation and the expertise of multiple fields of study.
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Next Generation Prevention - A Giving Smarter Guide
Precision health focuses on improving overall health and preventing disease, rather than treating d
isease.
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Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerating Research Progress
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignant brain tumor involving glial cells of the b
rain. At the time of this report, nearly 15,000 people were diagnosed with GBM each year in the United States and Europe.
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Childhood Brain Cancer: A Giving Smarter Guide
Pediatric brain cancer accounts for 16 percent of all new childhood cancer diagnoses, making it one
of the most common cancer diagnoses in children and adolescents. It is also the leading cause of cancer death within this age group.
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podcast episode
Ep. 89: Impact, with GPIF’s Hiro Mizuno
“For us to have a sustainable portfolio, we have to have a sustainable capital market. And for us
to have a sustainable capital market, we need to have a sustainable society.
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Ep. 88: Ownership, with Liberty Media’s Greg Maffei
“We developed a green team and a red team. The red team's job was to play defense, and first think
mostly about liquidity and our downside. And the green team was supposed to think about where could we take advantage of this?”
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Ep. 86: Compassion, with Cesar Purisima
“More people will move to poverty as a result of the pandemic. And the estimate is at least half a
billion to a billion people....I think that might push back a little bit the shift to a greener economy.
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Ep. 85: Sustainable, with Unilever’s Alan Jope
“The biggest tailwind is going to be the voice of young people demanding that the grownups do not
ignore warnings about pandemics, about climate change, about gross inequality.
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Ep. 84: Culture, with Mastercard’s Ajay Banga
“Culture doesn’t just come because you wave a magic wand. It comes through hard work; it comes thr
ough sharing; it comes through cross‐fertilization of people and ideas....The culture we built, we don't want to lose that during this process.
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Ep. 83: Breaking Through, with Ursula M. Burns
“Let's start talking about this. How are we going to diversify our boards? How are we going to div
ersify our management teams? How are we going to diversify our entry-level pipeline?
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Ep. 82: The Day After, with UC Berkeley’s Carol T. Christ
“Though the pandemic is taking so much of our energy right now in addressing it, there will be a d
ay after.
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