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Ford Foundation Board Making Rare Detroit Visit

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06/15/2015

... Making Rare Detroit Visit There are also plans for a "grand bargain" reunion during the three-day visit, a gathering of top leaders in national and local philanthropy ... collaborated to create...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

... the written word plus works of art and culture – from 1,600 institutions. “The Sloan and Knight ... have been such generous contributors to DPLA’s success, from our planning phase to the rapid build-out of our...

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women

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07/01/2015

... on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women From banking to the arts, technology to health care, New ... appointed to lead two of the Big 4 accounting firms. In a hypercompetitive city jam-...

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Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

... an inspiring group of well known naturalized citizens from all walks of life — the “Pride of America” — who ... Carnegie’s journey to America and read the latest news from our grantees and other partners...

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

... New York energy company has filed an application to drill a natural-gas well using a waterless method that will test the state’s fracking ban. The Snyder Farm Group, made up of five landowners from...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

... Schools in the Developing World GivePower Foundation— a charitable non-profit organization that addresses energy ... to schools in the developing world—is expanding. Through a $500,000 donation from...

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David Berg Foundation Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum

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09/02/2015

... Jewish Museum New York’s Jewish Museum has received a one-year grant of $275,000 from The David Berg Foundation to underwrite Free Saturdays ... visitors the Museum routinely tracks. Information derived...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds As U.S. immigrants and their descendants integrate into ... make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new report found their well-being...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina...

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Pfizer and UICC Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

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10/14/2015

... Cancer Control (UICC) announced the recipients from the Seeding Progress and Resources for the Cancer ... Metastatic Breast Cancer Challenge (SPARC MBC Challenge), a first-of-its-kind initiative to address the...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

... nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another. Mexico, which shares a nearly 2,000-mile border with the U.S., is the source of the largest wave of immigration in history...

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Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

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02/01/2016

... which the Columbia University affiliate will use to build a new teaching center in New York City. The Tow ... is donating the money alongside a $25 million gift from Cheryl Glicker Milstein...

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Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings

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02/11/2016

... Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings A new report details how an incubator created by the Filene Research Institute, with funding from Ford Foundation, generated $100 million in loans and ... for...

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... The offshore wind industry’s efforts to distance itself from Cape Wind continued this week as the University of Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... National Gallery The National Gallery of Art announced a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum two and a half times...

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Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College

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03/22/2016

Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L. A . Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College A ... Justice, with the college’s first endowed professor as its director. Phillip Atiba Goff...

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

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04/13/2016

... school network, said on Tuesday that it had received a $25 million gift, its largest ever, from the hedge fund billionaire Julian H. Robertson. Success ... to 100 schools, from 34, within the...

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Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

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04/21/2016

... initiative that aims to gather DNA and other information from 50,000 people with autism and their family members. ... communication disorder is unknown and believed to be a mix of environmental and genetic...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... beleaguered prisoner reentry effort is getting some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New Opportunity was ... called the Center for Community Alternatives, with funding from the Open Society...

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