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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... which required real physical and moral courage, or issues of fierce contention like war, that daylong walk was about as ...

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Century Foundation Releases New Report on Labor Market Recovery

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11/06/2014

Century Foundation Releases New Report on Labor Market Recovery ... report released today, TCF’s Mike Cassidy says that part of the problem may be that the unemployment rate is not actually a good measure ...

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Open Society Foundations Announces $50 Million Gift to ACLU

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11/07/2014

... significance for the ACLU, which is in the early stages of a fundraising campaign that will end in 2020, the gift ... and public education, with a goal to halve the number of Americans behind bars in six years...

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

... Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on a program to build the financial health of arts and cultural heritage organizations. NFF has received a $485,000 planning grant for the...

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New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention

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03/26/2015

New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the...

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Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino Millennials

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03/27/2015

Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino ... and believe it should be widely accessible. A survey of adults ages 18 to 35 released Friday by the Public Religion Research Institute found 54...

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Wallace Foundation President Will Miller Tackles Education Reform in NYTimes Editorial

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04/17/2015

Wallace Foundation President Will Miller Tackles Education Reform in ... principal needs to be much more focused on the quality of teaching in the classroom.... Wallace Foundation President Will...

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William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

William T. Grant Foundation -Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying New research suggests that the ... being maltreated by adults. To determine the effects of bullying on...

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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 ... Cancer to launch the largest study ever of...

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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 Educational Development ... workforce development and mentoring at their point of need, according to bank officials. “The social and .....

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Works to Build a Better South Bronx

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07/10/2015

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Works to Build a Better South Bronx Today, New ... a master plan to design, build, and fund a new network of connected open spaces that will improve quality of...

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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 ... This week, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice described his ... was arrested...

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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 ... symphony orchestra and...

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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 ... agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at Corinthian Colleges, a ... for-profit school that filed for...

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13 Apr 2016

Legal Series - Self-Dealing (Family Foundations & Family Offices)

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

This program is a part of a four-part Legal Programs Series from our 2016 PNY Core ... Practices and Common Pitfalls The self-dealing, conflict of interest and related party transaction rules for private ... are...

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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 ... and Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor of the technology news site Re/code. . . Open Society ...

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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 ... their degree at all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in College , from TCF senior fellow ...

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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 ... that it didn’t...

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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 ... that Mr. Robertson’s gift would help it achieve its goal of expanding to 100 schools, from 34, within the next 10 ... curriculum and pedagogy...

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