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The Wallace Foundation Releases New Guide to Help School Districts Recruit Students for Voluntary Summer Learning Programs

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03/06/2018

... summer learning programs, especially for children from low-income families. But once a program becomes available, will students attend? A new ... and others can use to interest children and...

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Community-based Wildlife Carcass Surveillance Is Key for Early Detection of Ebola Virus, Study Supported By Arcus Foundation Finds

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08/28/2019

... Finds Human Ebola epidemics, like the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are known to start from a contact with wildlife infected with Ebola virus. In the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Monument to Commemorate Destroyed African American Land in Central Park Funded by Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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10/20/2019

Monument to Commemorate Destroyed African American Land in Central Park Funded by Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, ... Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund In Central Park, about a mile from...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Social Justice

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19

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03/10/2020

... and Mastercard today committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 ... settings. The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will play a catalytic role by accelerating and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 27 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

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05/12/2020

... who were announced today. Each will receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for high-caliber scholarly research ... prioritize the originality and potential impact of a proposal, as well as a...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Amy F. Dinofrio as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

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04/11/2022

... named vice president and chief human resources officer. In this role, Dinofrio will be a key member of RWJF’s leadership team, responsible for ... Dinofrio received her Master of Business Administration...

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NoVo Foundation Announces $90M Investment in Girls & Young Women of Color Across the U.S.

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03/23/2016

NoVo Foundation Announces $90M Investment in Girls &Young Women of Color Across the U.S. The NoVo ... in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, today announced a seven-year, $90 million...

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Gender Justice

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Student-Adult Ratio Is Crucial to Getting H.S. Kids Caught Up

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12/16/2015

... the last few years, both locally and nationally, more than a quarter of NYC students do not leave high school with a ... students who enter high school with low academic skills in basic...

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A New Way to Sustain the Campaign: Foundation Center and Open Society Foundations Launch BMAFunders.org

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03/28/2013

... Foundations Campaign for Black Male Achievement , launched in 2008 to address the economic, political, social and educational exclusion of black men and boys from American society. When I consider the upcoming...

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Pinkerton Expands Science Mentoring for High School Scholars

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07/20/2015

... at least 2,000 talented New York City high school students from disadvantaged neighborhoods. The initiative—to be ... AMNH model at fourteen other science-related institutions in the city. To date, 385...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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More Informality, Please.

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03/16/2016

... Edition. Philanthropy loves its panel discussions. A panel is a great format for presenting information from experts and allowing our members to interact with those ... also love when we...

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PNY News

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PNY Members Are Taking Action on Justice Summit Learning

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06/20/2018

... the past several years especially, New York City has been a national leader in examining its justice system and taking concrete steps to ... The Lippman Commission report produced a...

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PNY News

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Justice Reform

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Do More with What You Have

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06/26/2019

... to the college that he will attend next year. Yet in the wake of the college admission scandal, the mixed ... I are playing by all the rules, he is the beneficiary of a horribly broken system. The higher...

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The Lavelle Fund for the Blind Announces an Executive Director Transition

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11/07/2019

... his tenure as the Fund’s founding Executive Director in 2000 and has overseen the growth of the Fund’s assets from $79 million to more than $125 million. To date, the Fund has distributed a...

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Health

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Let's Get Explicit About Power

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09/24/2020

... for Philanthropy New York. As DEI discussions increase in philanthropy, there remains one area where discussion ... legitimacy)? Structures and processes also create power. From the macro level of who sets up...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report - Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today

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12/02/2021

... Releases Report - Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its ninth month, a rising death toll and pronounced racial and socioeconomic ... of Americans...

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Social Justice

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Close the Divide Between Education and Work

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01/21/2016

... Before joining JPMorgan Chase, I spent 7 years running a nonprofit that developed models of collaboration between ... the thinking was that going directly into the workforce from high school was an option of...

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