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Mellon Foundation Launches New Initiative to Support 1,500 Artists and Small Arts Organizations as COVID-19 Crisis Continues

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08/27/2020

Intercultural Leadership Institute Fund Seeded with $5 Million from Mellon to Distribute COVID Relief Grants to Artists and Cultural Organizations Flying Beneath the National Radar

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The Weight of Privilege in Crisis

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08/19/2020

The world has undergone a tectonic shift in the last six months and it's changing us.

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Appoints Margaret Waldock to Executive Director of Duke Farms

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08/19/2020

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation today announced the appointment, following a nationwide search, of Margaret Waldock as executive director of Duke Farms, a 2,740-acre center for environmental stewardship that enhances the environmental health of...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

The grant is the largest gift the Mellon Foundation has made to CUNY in its 45-year history of supporting the nation’s leading urban public university.

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The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - "The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations"

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08/13/2020

“The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations” identifies strategies employed by visual and performing arts organizations that successfully achieved organizational health prior to COVID-19

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We Cannot Let COVID-19 Be a Death Sentence For Refugees

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08/12/2020

For those working in the fields of protecting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, the last few years have been a persistent and mounting challenge.

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Salesforce Announces Work.com For Schools and $20 Million to Help Schools Reopen Safely and Support Student Learning Anywhere

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08/11/2020

Technology helps schools make smart decisions on when it’s safe to return to campus, monitor the health of students and teachers, and better support those who are learning remotely

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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards $5 Million to Evaluate Virtual Diabetes Specialty Clinic Model

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08/10/2020

The grant to the Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation will be used to evaluate the efficacy of a virtual specialty clinic model for improving clinical and psychosocial outcomes for people with diabetes.

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The Fund for the City of New York Announces Lisette Nieves as President

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08/10/2020

The Board of the Fund for the City of New York announced today that its long-time President, Mary McCormick, will step down on September 1 st , she will be succeeded by Lisette Nieves

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Emergency Grants to Prison Education Programs as COVID Crisis Continues

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08/06/2020

The grants will allow incarcerated students across the nation to continue learning while in-person instruction is paused as part of ongoing efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.