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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... has led the nation in the rate at which it sends women to prison. Roughly 151 of every 100,000 Oklahoma women are ... for legislative change, used a referendum last fall to make drug possession a misdemeanor...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have seen ... leaders building on the momentum of the Paris Agreement...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees American society is obsessed with a single route to success. We tell our children they must get high SAT ... get bachelor’s...

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Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database

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01/09/2018

Michigan State University UsesMellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database Michigan State ... from multiple universities, the website will allow people to search millions of pieces of slave data...

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Annie E. Casey, Conrad N. Hilton, Ford and JPB Foundations Join FHO to Pledge $4.9 Million in New Affordable Housing Initiative

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02/20/2018

... Conrad N. Hilton, Ford and JPB Foundations Join FHO to Pledge $4.9 Million in New Affordable Housing Initiative A new charitable initiative wants to help address the nation’s affordable housing crisis , .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Top 35 Innovative Urban Ideas as Finalists in 2018 Mayors Challenge

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02/21/2018

... a nationwide competition that encourages city leaders to uncover bold, inventive ideas that confront the toughest ... problems cities face. These 35 urban innovations rose to the top of a competitive pool of...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... F.B. Heron Foundation for the past three years, wants to take the ultimate impact investing step: to go "all in". That means moving the foundation's $300 ... post I wrote about going all in). I...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Supported Criminal Justice Mentorship Program Scales across Country

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05/02/2018

... of Probation funded 19 community-based organizations to hire mentors for people ages 16 to 24. These weren't just any mentors but formerly criminal ... terms of their probation. They were generally...

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

... Tyron, North Carolina, the home where Nina learned how to play the piano was named a National Treasure by the ... Trust today. Recently purchased by four black artists to maintain Simone’s legacy, this now-...

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Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats

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06/25/2018

Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. ... the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal...

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Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) RFP for Round 13 of the Partners for Places Grant Program

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07/19/2018

... Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) is pleased to announce the opening of Round 13 of the Partners for ... in local projects developed through these partnerships to promote a healthy environment, a...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $1.3 Million to Support Recovery and Resilience for Puerto Rico's Underserved Healthcare Centers

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08/02/2018

Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $1.3 Million to Support Recovery and Resilience for Puerto Rico's ... Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced new funding to The Solar Foundation and Direct Relief...

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Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away

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08/16/2018

... cancer. Joyce was born on August 27, 1950 in Medford, MA to the late Frank and Grace Bove. She leaves her beloved son, ... where she presided over hundreds of millions of dollars to non-profit organizations...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Grant to Critical Path Institute to Advance Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

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09/06/2018

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Grant to Critical Path Institute to Advance Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease In a continuing effort to spur advancements in treating and curing sickle...

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist

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09/13/2018

... Data Scientist for the Foundation. Mr. Khokhar comes to the Foundation after most recently serving as Senior Data ... where he established the World Bank’s Data Innovation Fund , which attracted more than 1,000...

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Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

... Graduate School a $1.675 million, five-year grant to support the University’s Open Graduate Education ... Mellon Foundation, the program enables doctoral students to simultaneously complete a master’s degree...

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Report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Finds Funder Collaboratives for Systems Change Gaining Momentum

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10/01/2018

... for Systems Change Gaining Momentum For funders seeking to create change at the systems level, collaborations can be ... focused on achieving the kind of scale needed to create systemic change, the report,...

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Adam Gamoran, President of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spoke at GW University About How Universities Can Conduct Better Research

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10/15/2018

... the importance of reshaping incentives within universities to support faculty research that responds to real-life challenges. “My stance is that we can take ... we reorient the research taking place in our...

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With Support From UJA-Federation Of New York, The Mayor’s Office For People With Disabilities Launches The First Cyber Security Training For People With Disabilities

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10/23/2018

... and Standard Chartered Bank. This program uses a train- to -place model that will prepare individuals with disabilities to secure employment in the cyber security industry. It ... Cisco certification program...

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McNulty Foundation & Aspen Institute Announce the 2018 McNulty Prize Winner, Mehrdad Baghai and High Resolves

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11/01/2018

... High Resolves , which delivers learning experiences to inoculate students against hatred and galvanize them to take action in their communities. Co-founded with his wife ... is bringing immersive, experiential...

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