Brooklyn Community Foundation to Award $600,000 to Outstanding Local Organizations
Release Date:
03/31/2017
Eligible organizations are invited to apply online at www.SparkPrize.org starting Monday, April 10 through Friday, May 12.
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Release Date:
03/31/2017
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Release Date:
03/31/2017
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Release Date:
03/31/2017
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Release Date:
03/30/2017
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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative
Release Date:
03/30/2017
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Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Fight Bias Against Muslims
Release Date:
03/30/2017
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Release Date:
03/30/2017
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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants
Release Date:
03/30/2017
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Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties
Release Date:
03/29/2017
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Rockefeller Foundation Helps Speed Up Development of Minigrids in Africa
Release Date:
03/28/2017
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Release Date:
03/28/2017
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Release Date:
03/24/2017
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Release Date:
03/28/2017
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Release Date:
03/28/2017
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