Advancing Racial Equity in Arts and Culture, Part 1
Release Date:
08/28/2015
Salem Tsegaye explores how New York City Cultural Agenda Fund is advancing equity in the cultural sector.
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Release Date:
08/28/2015
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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments
Release Date:
08/28/2015
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Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport
Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Ms. Foundation Releases New Data on Women's Equality
Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding
Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative
Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Citi Foundation, America’s Promise Award $3 Million for Youth
Release Date:
08/27/2015
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Rita Allen Foundation Passionate About Funding Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems
Release Date:
08/26/2015
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The PIMCO Foundation Sends Employees to Peru to Build Sustainable Small Businesses with Coffee Farmers
Release Date:
08/26/2015
The project is part of PMCO's Emerging Enterprise Program (EEP) which encourages entrepreneurship and create opportunity in developed countries.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Focuses on Affordable Housing, Workforce Development and Community Development
Release Date:
08/26/2015
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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Opens Public Garden in The Battery
Release Date:
08/25/2015
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2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Awarded to Those Who Dedicate Private Wealth to the Public Good
Release Date:
08/25/2015
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2015
Winning Ingredients: What Philanthropy Can Learn from the Marriage Equality Movement
Monday, November 2, 2015 -
12:45pm to 4:00pm
Join us for a conversation with key philanthropic leaders and advocates from the field who have worked to achieve the freedom to marry.
Rockefeller's Rodin Should Run for President, According to NewsWorks
Release Date:
08/24/2015
NewsWorks editorial names four CEOs that should enter the political arena.
Simons Foundation Invites LOIs for Significant Mathematical, Theoretical Studies
Release Date:
08/24/2015
Grants of up to $2.5 million will be awarded in support of collaborative projects that address a mathematical or theoretical topic of fundamental scientific importance.
The Role of Philanthropy in Addressing the Greek Crisis
Release Date:
08/21/2015
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Co-President, Andreas C. Dracopoulos, explores the critical nature of the role the foundation has played in assisting during Greece's economic crisis.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids
Release Date:
08/21/2015
One in every five American children and adolescents are affected by psychiatric and learning disorders.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $7.3 Million to Dance Organizations
Release Date:
08/21/2015
The awards were part of the first round of grants through its Leadership Grants Program for Dance.