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Tynesha McHarris will be joining the Brooklyn Community Foundation next week in a new position as Director of Community Leadership. Tynesha has been working with the Foundation since January on Brooklyn Insights, overseeing Neighborhood Dialogues...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

... with the tools, skills, and experiences they need for positions in museums, libraries, and other research settings ...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

Few peace and security groups are better positioned to help reduce tensions between Iran and the U.S. than the Ploughshares Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation

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07/07/2014

Laura Packer has been named executive director of the Howard Gilman Foundation, effective July 22.

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

... much in half a century, and that few women are depicted in positions of power on screen.... Rockefeller Foundation ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

The Brooklyn Accelerator will connect community-based nonprofits to new donors and board members.

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Backed Study Finds Ebola Virus Lives in Eye Long After Blood Clears

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05/08/2015

A few months after being declared Ebola-free, Ian Crozier, MD, developed uveitis in his left eye, and the caused by a reservoir of Ebola virus in that eye.

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Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore

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05/11/2015

The grant is part of the $1.5 million Summer Youth Initiative in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Family League of Baltimore.

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Leadership Changes Announced at Gap Foundation and Gap, Inc.

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05/15/2015

Bobbi Silten and Dan Henkle have new roles in the organization.

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Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules

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08/20/2015

The most pronounced underwriting losses stem from the Medicare Advantage line of business, which allows private health plans to administer the government insurance program for Americans over the age of 65.

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Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

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09/10/2015

Surdna seeks nonprofits that improve urban infrastructure systems that maximize positive impact while minimizing negative consequences.

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MetLife Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

Release Date:

09/23/2015

MetLife Foundation provided more than $27 million in financial inclusion grants in year two of its $200 million, five-year commitment.

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in philanthropy. One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that enables grantmakers to be most effective.

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Opinion: Health Reform Lives!

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11/23/2015

To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral...

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New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work

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12/10/2015

Eight new standards for supervisors of school principals, covering topics such as instructional leadership and meeting the needs of diverse learners, aim to guide supervisors as they help those principals improve their effectiveness in an evolving...

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Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows

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04/08/2016

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.

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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

Release Date:

04/28/2016

A $420 million Ford Foundation program that funded the advanced education of social justice leaders from marginalized groups led to significant positive change in communities and organizations around the world, a report from the Institute of...