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Aisha Moodie-Mills Joins Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Board of Directors

Release Date:

10/16/2019

Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Aisha Moodie-Mills to its Board of Directors, effective Friday, September 27, 2019.

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Brooklyn Org

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Partners to Supply Three Paterson, New Jersey Schools With Musical Instruments

Release Date:

10/15/2019

Three elementary schools in Paterson are getting musical instruments like ukuleles, recorders, and hand drums.

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New York Community Trust Awards Grants to 56 Organizations in All Five Boroughs

Release Date:

10/15/2019

City’s community foundation addresses maternal morbidity among African-American women in New York hospitals, helps start a museum program for families using food assistance, and much more.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The New York Community Trust

Heckscher Foundation for Children Funded New York's First 'To and Through' Data Tool That Shines a Light on College Readiness Gap

Release Date:

10/14/2019

New data tool shows college persistence and completion outcomes for many New York high school graduates.

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Avital Havusha Named New York State Health Foundation’s Vice President For Programs

Release Date:

10/11/2019

The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has named Avital Havusha its new Vice President for Programs, effective November 4th. Ms. Havusha currently serves as Managing Director, Performance Improvement at the Primary Care Development...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Grantee Dr. Gregg Semenza Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Release Date:

10/10/2019

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is pleased to announce that RPB Stein Innovation Awardee Gregg Semenza, MD, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Dr. Semenza and two co-...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Nine Winners of the Physician Scientist Fellowship

Release Date:

10/10/2019

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation grants $1.98 Million to nine subspecialty fellows in the inaugural year of the Physician Scientist Fellowship.

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Philanthropy's Social Compact In A Changing World

Release Date:

10/09/2019

Trust in philanthropy is eroding. Widening inequality is contributing to public fears and anxiety about the roles various types of institutions play in public life—be they philanthropy, government, business, or academia.

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Whiting Foundation Awards 2019 Creative Nonfiction Grants

Release Date:

10/08/2019

The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 is awarded to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction.

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The New York Women’s Foundation Honors DeAnna Hoskins, President & CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, and Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of The Equal Justice Initiative, at 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner

Release Date:

10/08/2019

The New York Women’s Foundation honored two of the nation’s leading champions of social justice on October 7 at its 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner at The Essex House on Central Park West.