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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources ... that help students improve their proficiency in math, a linchpin academic subject...

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) board of directors elected new officers and welcomed five new esteemed members during its board meeting.

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

... Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent teachers. ... programs and trying to strengthen existing ones. A new report from the Center for American...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... The Key To Fixing Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong with our system, ... with lots of agendas, but the key issues boil down to a familiar few: We have a...

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Food Systems

New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity

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10/13/2017

... Raynor, Jessica Mowles, and Deepti Sood from TCC Group. A rapidly changing, global sociopolitical environment ... assessment of 54 foundations that participated in taking a new tool, developed for funders by...

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18 Dec 2017

YLBC Info Session Webinar 2

Monday, December 18, 2017 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... underrepresented in the philanthropic sector. YLBC creates a space for participants to build relationships across a diverse community of professionals, work on personal and ... practice leadership skills...

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12 Dec 2017

YLBC Info Session Webinar 1

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 -

9:00am to 10:00am

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Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

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11/20/2017

... the Heron Foundation announced today. Bezerra offers a breadth of experience that spans the philanthropic and ... identifying and developing relationships across a spectrum of investors, syndicating capital...

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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

... Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished...

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Animal Welfare

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Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

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12/18/2017

... will lead the news industry’s revolution. This will be a year of reckoning, the year a new wave of diverse news leaders shapes American journalism ... sexual conduct. The tumult will contribute to a...

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Gender Justice

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Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

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01/11/2018

... the field of impact investing. The five grants complete a special Centennial year initiative and complement the ... and financial returns. “When the Foundation first made a commitment to focus on a...

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Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program

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01/24/2018

... in 35 states. “Our Museums on Us program aims to make a direct impact by rewarding our cardholders with a valuable benefit, while also supporting cultural institutions across the country that play a...

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Arts

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02 May 2018

New York City Schools: Is Integration Necessary?

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... on Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy (CEIP) for a brown bag lunch session to discuss school segregation. ... efforts to address school segregation. Rather than have a set agenda, CEIP’s brown bag lunch...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Children, Youth and Families

New Study Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Identifies Nature's Strongholds

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04/23/2018

... Charitable Foundation Identifies Nature's Strongholds A new study by The Nature Conservancy has identified ... resilient landscapes will continue to serve as habitat to a wide variety of plants and...

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Coral Bleaching Is at the Center of New Research Funded by The Zegar Family Foundation

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05/22/2018

Coral Bleaching Is at the Center of a New Research Funded the Zegar Family Foundation With a brilliance so stunning and species diversity so vast, coral reefs are perhaps the ocean’s most ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Julie Sandorf, President of The Charles H. Revson Foundation on Supporting New York’s Libraries

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05/30/2018

... on Supporting New York’s Libraries Several weeks ago, on a frigid, unspring -like Saturday, I visited my local ... old, middle-aged, black, brown, white—what I saw was a coming together of the ...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

... the world. “We launched the Radical Hope Fund as a radical experiment—can a time of increasing repression and darkness also serve as a springboard for deep collaboration and transformative ...

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