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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug ...

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Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U.S. Higher Education System

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06/03/2015

Markle Foundation President Calls for Revamp of U.S. Higher Education System As presidential candidates declare why they seek to be elected in 2016, they are promising jobs, growth, and a ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing

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06/10/2015

Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing Joining a labor union is one of the best financial decisions a worker can make to boost individual and family wealth—worth up...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and Educational Development Opportunities

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06/30/2015

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and ... role in connecting low-income individuals and families to financial education, job training, workforce development ... stable lives...

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box' This week, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice...

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The Mellon Foundation Backs Bard's Innovative Masters Program in Orchestral Performace Studies

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08/14/2015

The Mellon Foundation Backs Bard's Innovative Masters Program in ... is integrated into the interdisciplinary graduate study of music’s place in culture and history. The program is designed to...

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The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times

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10/13/2015

The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times When the Obama administration agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at Corinthian...

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Open Society Foundations Supports International Online Journalism Event

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02/24/2016

Open Society Foundation Supports International Online Journalism Event ... from around the world. Simultaneous translation to Spanish will be provided at the conference in conjunction ... and Kara Swisher, co-...

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College Most students attend college to learn skills and gain experience that will put them on a ...

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With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years

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04/08/2016

With Help from Mellon Foundation , the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years To kick off its 75th anniversary , the National Gallery of Art hosted a black-tie reception Wednesday night for 1,400 ...

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Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network

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04/13/2016

Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network Success Academy, ... that Mr. Robertson’s gift would help it achieve its goal of expanding to 100...

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Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders

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04/25/2016

Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders Darren Walker’s moves to steer the country’s second-largest grant maker toward a ...

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Dodge Foundation Provides Travel Stipends to Jersey Water Works Delegation

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05/26/2016

Dodge Foundation Provides Travel Stipends to Jersey Water Works Delegation Jersey Water Works is ... Atlanta June 8-10. The delegation, representative of many of the sectors...

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Clark Foundation Brothers Feuded, But Also Made Two Towns Arts Destinations

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06/20/2016

Clark Foundation Brothers Feuded, But Also Made Two Towns Arts ... they'll be tracing footprints left by members of same influential family: the Clarks. A wealthy, weighty clan who came to...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action

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06/24/2016

Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On ... upholding race as a factor in the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin came as a relief for ... confidently...

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Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book

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06/29/2016

Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets of New York City on the...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline ... fellow students while administrators stood by, according to a recent class-action lawsuit. “The data we have seen shows a clear...

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Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

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07/21/2016

Ford Foundation 's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy Philanthropy, in its current institutional .....

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row In 1989, a 29-year-old ... civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that...

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