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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... Walker, president of the Ford Foundation and keeper of its $12-billion-plus endowment, who announced last month that ... will focus much of its grant making on inequality, aiming to use...

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The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography

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09/29/2015

... In 1963, the Ford Foundation used the power of its grants to help create eight ballet companies across the U.S. Most of ... Additionally, men also head the choreography. According to a recent...

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The Wallace Foundation

Carnegie Corporation Awards $39.5 Million in Grants

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10/02/2015

... international program include $500,000 over two years to the Center for a New American Security to assess the impact of disruptive technologies on the ... over two years to the Century...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy

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05/11/2016

... At the same time, many governments are struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending for popular ... programs. That’s prompted some presidential candidates to argue it’s time to...

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Economic Security

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships ... diverse, talented young workers who cannot possibly afford to work for free. It got media types talking ... why it’s...

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Communications/Media

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PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

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11/17/2016

... two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work. Since its inception, LTW has served thousands of ...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

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01/27/2017

... themselves, even under siege and surrounded on all sides, to hold out for as long as a year. Instead, faced with an ... assault by the forces of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian and Iranian allies...

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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

... strategies in reaching a diverse audiences and using art to build positive, relevant, and inspiring forces in the ... cross-demographic view on audience engagement. Many of its findings can be applied ...

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Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25

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06/20/2017

Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25 The stretch of bone-dry, cracked land ... like much. But until recently, it was a spring, according to rancher L.J. Turner of Wright, Wyo. “It...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities

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07/31/2017

Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities The ... news to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sure, much of its work...

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Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive

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08/24/2017

... life-changing products by having the poor pay for them. To attract customers, they usually start with mild marketing ... events and passive distribution. When these attempts fail to get the job done—as they...

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “I am so tired of ... for a role because of their race, and are then expected to have the required competencies but don’t.” These are .....

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... painted Aztec symbols, for example, and a piece devoted to women’s rights on the barrier that hides a vacant lot. ... about gentrification, which the artists worry is coming to their neighborhood. The mural...

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Community Development

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year, the New York Public Library released plans for a total renovation of its Mid-Manhattan branch, the workhorse circulating library...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors Rhea Wong never felt comfortable using elevator pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success ... the...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre wavy rectangle 200 feet off ... of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where the Lusitania used to dock. The trust enlisted the...

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Community Development

New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law

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10/05/2017

... state’s high school graduation rate may take a hit due to an under-the-radar provision in the new federal education ... The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, requires states to count only “standard”...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration? In addition to supporting artists in the many fields in which ... field of "artist as activist" philanthropy, launching its Artist as Activist program...

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The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions

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11/01/2017

... What Works Cities (WWC), a $42 million program to foster data analytics in cities, has added Athens, ... Colorado; Gainesville, Florida; and Palmdale, California to its growing list of...

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