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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the Baltimore office of the...

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Ford Foundation Awards NABJ Grant Ahead Of Its 42nd Annual Convention And Career Fair

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08/09/2017

Days before kicking off its annual convention, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the Ford Foundation has granted $150,000 to the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation.

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

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08/09/2017

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research's next president respected anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford has assumed her leadership duties.

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Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas

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08/08/2017

Edward W. Hazen Foundation Intern Juan Cardoza-Oquendo says investing in community organizing in Texas now is a smart investment for the future of social justice nationwide.

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

The Legal Services Corporation published a comprehensive report and accompanying toolkit for its Statewide Website Evaluation Project, which assessed the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

As colleges and universities flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development, marketing and back-office management of the programs. A warning about the nature...

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...

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Long Island Community Foundation Names New Board Members

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08/07/2017

The Long Island Community Foundation recently named three new board members. “We are thrilled to welcome these three talented and iconic community leaders to our Board,” said David M. Okorn, LICF’s executive director.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: National Three-Year Evaluation of Municipal Financial Counseling Model Shows Financial Counseling Works as Public Program

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08/07/2017

The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund published An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People's Financial Stability As a Public Service, a three-year assessment of the initiative's initial replication in 5 cities. Financial...