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New NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation

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08/03/2017

... Conference Participation The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is pleased to launch a Request for ... (RFP): Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer...

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Health

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New Mellon Fellowship Program Explores Cultural Preservation through Long-Term Conservation of Navajo Textiles

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08/04/2017

... Cultural Preservation through Long-Term Conservation of Navajo Textiles The Heard Museum has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a fellowship program centered on care...

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Social Justice

Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... Social Innovation Award Recipient The Macquarie Group Foundation , the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has announced Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the recipient of the 2017 Macquarie Social...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... at least not anymore. While seven years ago 69 percent of black children and 58 percent of Latino children reported having little to no swimming ... according to research commissioned by the USA Swimming...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its ... is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

... raised in the week since Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on the Houston area. The Rebuild Texas Fund, ... Harvey Relief Fund through the Greater Houston Community Foundation that has raised more than...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

... vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits. While the news media is focusing on the latest...

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Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

... Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so through the work of NGOs. Michael Bloomberg’s taken some different angles so ... government, likely through lawsuits, over the gutting of environmental regulations. . ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early ... Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of...

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Science

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... Farms have collectively earned an impressive list of awards, starred restaurant reviews, media features and TV cooking show appearances. But the main goal of their two days in Vermont did not involve knives or...

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Food Systems

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... Program Stanford University Press is redefining the world of traditional academic publishing through an innovative ... The idea for the program, launched last year with the help of a $1.2 million grant from...

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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

... Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? The Walton Family Foundation recently pledged to invest more than $2 million to ... interesting about this new $2.2 million gift is the type of charter schools the funder...

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... to Vanderbilt University next year to discuss the future of preserving broadcast television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , Vanderbilt will host the two-day “Sustaining ... for the...

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Communications/Media

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by Comptroller Scott Stringer, Rep. ... a four-point plan that included building 15,000 units of affordable senior housing on...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing and Homelessness

07 Nov 2017

Protecting Our Precious Waters: New York City’s Impacts on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Estuary

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3:00pm to 4:30pm

What are New York City’s impacts on the health of its waterways and the Long Island Sound? How do combined ... and environmental justice dimensions? How is lack of progress on meeting infrastructure challenges...

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Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

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10/27/2017

... a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the conservation, mounting and study of Asian paintings. The Asian Paintings Conservation Center...

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Arts

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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

... philanthropist Agnes Gund, today announced the first round of grant recipients in the areas of criminal justice reform and the arts. With awards ranging ... Fund, created by Ms. Gund in partnership with the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... political climate. Bear with me for a tiny bit of important background. In our efforts to help funders effectively respond to changes in the context of their work, CEP regularly adds timely questions to our...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Equalizing the Power Dynamic in Philanthropy

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03/01/2018

... by Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation You may have seen a recent report released by The Ford Foundation that extolls the merits of participatory grantmaking...

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