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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem Disciplines

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01/18/2018

... and engineering at the graduate level. Funded by a $ 1 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the ... The program, which will also be funded by the Office of the Provost and the Graduate School,...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington as Executive Vice President

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01/19/2018

The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Hilary Pennington as its first executive vice president, a role in which she will oversee all of the foundation's programs in the US and globally.

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Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize

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01/25/2018

Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize The Milbank Memorial Fund has teamed up with AcademyHealth to establish a new annual award that recognizes state and local efforts to advance...

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Philip Li, President & CEO of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Joins the Board of Directors at GEO

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02/21/2018

GEO announced the addition of three new members to their board of directors.

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

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Supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dance/NYC Launches Immigrant Artists Initiative

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02/27/2018

... 21, 2018, presented with the New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and the Queens Theatre. .....

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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Mellon Foundation

NYCT's Patricia Swann and Kerry Mccarthy Write About the Power and Possibility of the ‘Black Panther’ Moment

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03/06/2018

... it can’t just come and go with the churn of the box office . We need to use this conversation to lift up diverse ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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OSF Report Finds That Women Are Vastly Outnumbered at Europe’s Top Policy Events

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03/08/2018

Europe’s top 23 policy events feature an average of three male speakers to every woman, according to an Open Society Foundations report published on Thursday.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Women & Girls

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21 Mar 2018

Advancing Economic Opportunity for Immigrants and Refuge - A Webinar Hosted by AFN & GCIR

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... Designed for All interested funders. Registration 1 :00 - 2:00 PM Program Members and Non-Member Funders: ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe

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03/09/2018

For policy to truly address gun violence, it must create loving systems where children and families get the supports they need. Otherwise, we’ll continue a culture of violence and hatred.

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Education

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Research Co-Sponsored by The JPB Foundation Examines Quality of Abortion Care

Release Date:

03/16/2018

... the vast majority of abortions can be provided safely in office -based settings. The committee that wrote the report ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Salesforce.org Join Other Techies to Help Aid Groups Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis

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03/16/2018

As the global refugee crisis persists, it’s become clear that old humanitarian aid models no longer hold up, forcing nonprofits and NGOs to look to tech to expand and overhaul the way they operate.

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International/Global Affairs

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Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All

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04/05/2018

In Ghana and elsewhere, Hilton is working on district-based programs to bring multiple disciplines together. The goal is simple: to “get the job done" and promote water-service delivery that can withstand time and regional political infighting and...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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A Look At The Building Bridges Program, Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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04/10/2018

Building Bridges is one of the arms of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, which in turn is part of the larger, New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that also funds global wellness for children as well as environmental and medical...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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William T. Grant Foundation Awards Three Year Grant to Cornell University to Study Opioid Use in Rural Upstate New York

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04/11/2018

... according to the Cornell University Media Relations Office . Findings from each study will be used to improve ...

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Education & Youth

William T. Grant Foundation

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Rachel Pardoe of The New York Community Trust is one of New York Non-Profit Media's 40 Under 40

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04/12/2018

The 2018 NYN Media 40 Under 40 awards honor a talented group of 20 and 30-somethings who are shaking up the New York nonprofit sector.

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The New York Community Trust

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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently

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04/13/2018

... is emblazoned on the wall right outside of Carson’s office , and says that its goal is to “partner with donors ...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease

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04/16/2018

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) a grant to support a Crohn's disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally

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04/19/2018

... School at The University of Texas, the City of Austin Office of Innovation, and Austin-Travis County EMS will be on ... in October, with four additional cities earning another $ 1 million each to further...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Statement on Allegations of Workplace Misconduct

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04/19/2018

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a values-driven organization, built on the contributions and the selfless efforts of our entire network. Of the core values at SVCF, accountability and transparency have helped our organization grow to where it...

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