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A Consequential Myth

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04/09/2019

Race is a fictive idea that holds real-life consequences. As a black man, who has a six-foot-and-three-inch-tall presence, I am intimately familiar with the tangibility of the myth. Although many anthropologist and geneticists have disproved any...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adds Olga Viso, Stephen Pitti, Cathy Davidson as Fellows

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04/03/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York has added three new fellows in residence: Cathy Davidson, a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center; Stephen Pitti, professor at Yale University; and Olga Viso, the former Walker Art Center director and now...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Nishka Chandrasoma as Vice President and General Counsel

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04/04/2019

The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Nishka Chandrasoma as its next vice president, secretary, and general counsel of the foundation.

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The ASPCA Gives 100,000 Animals Better Chance of Adoption Through National Relocation Program

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04/04/2019

Today the ASPCA's (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) national Animal Relocation Program marked a significant achievement by transporting its 100,000th animal.

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Tribeca Film Institute Announces 2019 Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grantees

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04/04/2019

The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the three TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2019 grantees, awarding them a total of $150,000.

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Rockefeller Foundation Partners with African Development Bank to Open Doors for Nigerian Women in ICT

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04/04/2019

The Bank, together with its partners - The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook announced the holding of the class in March on International Women's Day, as part of a concerted push to close the gender gap in the representation of women in...

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Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Finds Bonding Exercises Cut Discipline Disparity for Students of Color

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04/04/2019

Exercises that address middle school students’ worries about belonging can help black and Latino boys develop better relationships with teachers, according to new research.

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Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time

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03/31/2019

Archivists Bergis Jules and Edward Summers created DocNow to preserve social media posts, enabling activists to document the world’s most important social and political movements.

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Social Justice

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First-of-its-kind Study From the Century Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools?

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04/04/2019

With the enrollment flexibility and design choices available to them, charter schools have the potential to help reverse trends of school segregation—or to further isolate students by race and class.

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Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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04/04/2019

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors just named Greg Ratliff as its newest vice president. Greg will manage client engagements with a range of individual, family and corporate donors.

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United Hospital Fund Supports Evaluation That Shows Small Primary Care Practices Can Help Patients Access Mental Health Care

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04/04/2019

One in five New Yorkers suffer from mental health disorders, but most of these people do not have access to treatment, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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United Hospital Fund Names 2019 Patricia S. Levinson Fellow

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04/03/2019

United Hospital Fund announced today that it has selected Pooja Kothari, RN, MPH, program manager in UHF’s Quality Institute, as the 2019 Patricia S. Levinson fellow.

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NPCC Now Accepting Applications for the 2019 Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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04/02/2019

The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) is now accepting applications for the 2019 Nonprofit Excellence Awards, the only nonprofit excellence Awards program of its kind in New York State.

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Every New Yorker Deserves to Be Counted

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04/02/2019

NYS Census Equity Funders group sourced a video to advocate for every New Yorker in the upcoming 2020 Census.

Pursuit Bonds, Funded by Inherent Foundation, Helps Provide Workforce Training for Disadvantaged New Yorkers

Release Date:

03/15/2019

Jukay Hsu is an enthusiastic Amazon backer. He wanted the company to build a big new campus in New York and participated in wooing it. He met with Amazon executives and appeared in a video pitch, and his tech-training program for disadvantaged New...

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Euan Robertson Joins Simons Foundation As Chief Operating Officer

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04/01/2019

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that in April Euan Robertson joined its leadership team as the foundation’s first chief operating officer (COO).

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Matthew Krieger Elected Board Chair of Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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03/29/2019

Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, a national grant-making public charity, is pleased to announce that Matthew Krieger has been elected Board Chair.

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Supported By the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Barcelona FC Offers Free Football Training to Child Refugees in Lesvos

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04/02/2019

Hundreds of children have become members of the Barca Soccer FutbolNet programme since the programme’s implementation in July 2017, with the support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the NGO Movement on the Ground.

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