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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

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11/09/2018

The lab of Salk Professor Reuben Shaw showed that late-stage cancers can trigger AMPK’s cellular recycling signal to cannibalize pieces of the cell, supplying large lung tumors with the nutrients they need to grow.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health & Human Services

Science

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

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11/08/2018

Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a prominent voice on democratic institutions and civil society development, will receive philanthropy’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, and deliver an address on the...

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The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

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11/08/2018

Pfizer Foundation is helping to empower women in Benin through the delivery of integrated family planning information and services and childhood immunizations.

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Inside the Joan Mitchell Foundation: How a Visual Arts Funder Is Evolving

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11/08/2018

The artist Joan Mitchell passed away in 1992. Recently, her Blueberry set an auction record for $16.625 million at Christie’s New York, while her work at Art Basel collectively sold for approximately $35.5 million. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Museum of...

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Warhol Foundation Condemns CAH Grant Requirement As a Flagrant Attack on Free Speech

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11/08/2018

Joel Wachs, President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, today condemned a recent DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (CAH) grant requirement as a flagrant attack on free speech.

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Arts, Culture, & Media

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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13 Dec 2018

Whose Democracy?: Midterm Field Notes to Guide Funders Through 2020 and Beyond

Thursday, December 13, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:30am

America’s significant demographic shifts – increased racial and ethnic diversity, a larger aging population, and an altered urban racial composition – present an opportunity to close longstanding representation and electoral gaps in our democracy...

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: “14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress”

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11/07/2018

TCF recently published 14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress, a report which outlines dozens of impactful actions that Congress could take to reduce inequality and expand opportunity.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Jocelyn Frye as New Board Chair

Release Date:

11/07/2018

Obama administration alum and Senior Fellow at American Progress to head Foundation’s Board.

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25 Apr 2019

Empathy in an Era of Social Division and Toxic Politics - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

A healthy society depends on its citizens having the urge and ability to care for others. Today, however, political and social animosity has nearly paralyzed federal government and limits our society’s ability to solve pressing domestic issues. Can...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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06 Feb 2019

The Fight for a Fair Vote - A Food for Thought Conversation

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Join Philanthropy New York for Food for Thought , a conversation series hosted by the Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy for PNY members to discuss “equity” as a tool to buttress their philanthropic practice and as...

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11 Dec 2018

In Mixed Company: People of Color in White Spaces - A Food for Thought Conversation

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Traditional media and social media alike have been flooded with stories of people of color being targeted as they live, work, study, and otherwise navigate “white spaces.” Are these encounters a mere growing pain as society becomes more equitable...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

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11/07/2018

Researchers have discovered that the bacteria in the water in a large exhibit at Georgia Aquarium are similar to those that exist naturally in the ocean.

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Environment & Sustainability

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Science

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative

Release Date:

11/06/2018

Ten researchers who have been supported by RPB will be co-principal investigators on five innovative projects just announced by the National Eye Institute (NEI) as part of its Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) for Regenerative Medicine.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health & Human Services

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New York State Health Foundation-Funded Research Aims to Reduce Gun Violence in Rochester, New York

Release Date:

11/06/2018

With more than $194,000 from the New York State Health Foundation, RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts will form a program — Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization — to determine whether a victim of street...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health & Human Services

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04 Dec 2018

Seeding Power: Leadership for Justice-Based Movements in Food and Farming

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Over the past two decades, food has emerged as a central strategy and focus of nonprofits worldwide concerned with environmentalism and climate change, public health and hunger, community and economic development, human rights, and racial and social...

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Food Systems

13 Nov 2018

Ask the Author with David Williams, Opportunity Insights - A Webinar Hosted by AFN

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 -

12:00pm to 12:30pm

In 2018, a landmark study by researchers at Harvard and the Center for Administrative Records Research & Applications found that racial disparities in income and other outcomes are visible and persistent.

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Education & Youth

15 Nov 2018

Immigration Policy after the Midterms: What Can Funders Expect? - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, November 15, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Immigration was front and center in the lead-up to the midterms, including contentious debates on birthright citizenship, the migrant caravan, and protections for asylum seekers

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

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Education & Youth

Arcus to Unveil Social Justice Request for Concepts on Dec. 3

Release Date:

11/05/2018

On December 3, Arcus will unveil a Request for Concepts, a streamlined application for international and U.S.-based organizations to submit a concept to support LGBTQ social justice work.

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JPMorgan Spreads its Urban Development Money to Paris

Release Date:

11/05/2018

The bank will contribute $30 million over five years to programs to teach job skills and expand small businesses in Seine-Saint-Denis and other places with high unemployment and poverty, JPMorgan said in a statement provided to Reuters.

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