How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color
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01/12/2017
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01/12/2017
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01/12/2017
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01/12/2017
The Future Cities Accelerator announced 10 $100,000 grants to organizations devoted to improving the lives of the urban poor, with the hope that some will be successful enough to export to other cities.
Antoine Georges to Lead New Center for Computational Quantum Physics Supported by the Simons Foundation
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01/12/2017
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Herbert Sturz of Open Society Foundations Named A City & State Lifetime Award Winner
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01/12/2017
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Nupur Chaudhury Joins NYSHealth Foundation as Program Officer
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01/12/2017
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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Healthy Food & Community Change Initiative to Be Featured on Philanthropy Reality Show
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01/12/2017
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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project
Release Date:
01/12/2017
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Video: At Rockefeller, Actor Robin Wright on Negotiating Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’
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09/23/2016
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Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage
Release Date:
01/11/2017
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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative
Release Date:
01/11/2017
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Century Foundation Releases Report on Strengthening Protection of Patient Medical Data
Release Date:
01/11/2017
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Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures
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01/11/2017
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Novo Foundation Executives Publish Op-Ed Declaring Trump Era a Time to Double Down to End Injustice
Release Date:
01/10/2017
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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize
Release Date:
01/10/2017
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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
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01/10/2017
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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness
Release Date:
01/10/2017
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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation
Release Date:
01/10/2017
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