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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

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10/07/2015

Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow Legal scholar and author ... joins Ford as a senior fellow, contributing to the foundation ’s work on democracy, rights, and justice. ... book, The New Jim...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace ... will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A...

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Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

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02/01/2016

Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center Through his foundation , the former CEO of Frontier Communications’ predecessor company is donating ...

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Sloan Foundation Supports Science on Screen Film Series

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04/28/2016

Sloan Foundation Supports Science on Screen Film Series The Bozeman ... own world-renowned paleontologist, retiring curator of paleontology at Bozeman’s Museum of the Rockies and recipient...

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Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile

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05/12/2016

Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile The ... to existing instruments in order to boost ongoing studies of the evolution of the universe, from its earliest moments to today...

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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Campaign to Achieve Workplace Equality

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05/16/2016

Rockefeller Foundation Announces Campaign to Achieve Workplace Equality ... by the Rockefeller Foundation . Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation , announced a...

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Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter

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08/08/2016

Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter Last week, ... a detailed and ambitious policy agenda, with a long list of “demands” that are attempts to match systemic problems ... their voice to the...

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... Scholars The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation , and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

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12/15/2016

Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has released a report that suggests a diminishing share of United States residents speak...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School

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01/18/2017

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School At a press ... by the SNF, and implemented by Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, in New York City. The SNF’s grant towards ... University’s...

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Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities

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04/10/2017

Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities When ... National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, one of the people at his side was Paul Mellon, son of Andrew Mellon,...

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Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary

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04/20/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary April 19, 2017, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Russell Sage Foundation by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Slocum ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Immigration Research

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05/12/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Invites LOIs for Immigration Research To help ... advance this mission, the foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its Russell Sage Foundation /...

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Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup

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08/01/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup The Rockefeller ... public. ETFs give investors the ability to buy a basket of stocks or other assets with a single trade. Many of the funds...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Consolidates Its Programs

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06/05/2018

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Consolidates Its Programs News that a foundation ... looking to sharpen its focus. So it was probably humane of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation not...

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100 Years on, Rockefeller Foundation Still Busy

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05/12/2013

An examination of the foundation ’s history and institutional approach as it ... celebrates its centennial. For the richest American family of their era, the goal was fittingly ambitious: "To...

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Brooklyn Insights Launched by Brooklyn Community Foundation

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03/13/2014

The Brooklyn Community Foundation has launched Brooklyn Insights , a project designed to bring hundreds of local residents, advocates, entrepreneurs and leaders ... Brooklyn Insights Launched by Brooklyn Community...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Awards $400K in Artist as Activist Grants

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03/12/2015

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the six recipients of its inaugural Artist as Activist fellowships. The two-year grants will put a total of $400,000 toward supporting artists and...

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Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa

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07/20/2015

Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity ... enhance incomes and increase the economic participation of women and youth. Youth account for 60 percent of all Africans...

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