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Survey Shows Afterschool Participation Grows but Unmet Demand Nears 20 Million Children

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07/07/2015

... Nears 20 Million Children “America After 3 PM,” a new survey commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, finds that participation in afterschool programs has increased dramatically, from 6.5...

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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

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07/10/2015

... Girls and young women of color have made important gains in education, health and economic security in recent years. There is cause to celebrate increased ... across the country they are more likely to be...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

... Education Website Is it news, or is it advocacy? In the case of the Seventy Four, a new news site focused on education, the answer appears to ... As it happens, Brown raised the funds for the Seventy Four...

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

... for Synergy) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will support a faculty project director, postdoctoral fellows, graduate ... to deliver public programming, to digitize materials...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

... cohort of participating cities will be selected based on a city 039 ;s demonstrated commitment to building resilience to ... November 24, and the winning cities will be announced in April...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Resident-Led Grantmaking Program in Crown Heights

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08/03/2015

... Foundation Launches Resident-Led Grantmaking Program in Crown Heights On Friday, the Foundation and its Crown Heights Advisory Council announced a request for proposals from nonprofits,...

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Into the Public Policy Deep End

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08/18/2015

... Thanks to our Fund for 2025 donors, Chrispin started in July as the first PNY Public Policy Fellow and will be ... with us for the next two years. She will be joined by a second fellow next summer, and we’ll...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

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08/19/2015

... Texts The University of Oklahoma is the recipient of a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the continued ... that people of varying levels of interest and expertise in...

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Bank of America Foundation President Seeks to Increase Youth Development Opportunities

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08/19/2015

... recognize their ability to drive social change and make a difference on issues from poverty to education to the environment. In fact, according to new data, young people are giving more ...

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Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors

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08/20/2015

... to contribute to it. One strategy they supported began in 2002, when Jeff Solomon, president of the Andrea and ... resources to bear on the Jewish world. After spending a few months surveying the landscape and...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $7.3 Million to Dance Organizations

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08/21/2015

... Organizations The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York City has announced the inaugural round of grants ... to organizations that have demonstrated excellence in and a sustained...

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Simons Foundation Invites LOIs for Significant Mathematical, Theoretical Studies

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08/24/2015

... invites Letters of Intent for the Simons Collaborations in MPS program. The aim of the program is to stimulate ... be little doubt that answering them would constitute a major scientific milestone. Projects...

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years Washington, D.C., became a magnet for philanthropy after 2007, when former mayor ... In 2010, the District brought in...

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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

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08/28/2015

A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter? On Saturday, people from around the world will commemorate the 10 years since ... many people will tout the city’s recovery, few people in...

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

... commitment to the most creative scholarship and teaching in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “We ... with innovative analyses of the most important big data in the study of the humanities.” “...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

... and social consequences for immigrants’ children.   In three papers coming out over the next two weeks, the ... to immigrant parents. The series was supported through a research grant from...

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Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy

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09/16/2015

Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy A century has ... and the spirit of family philanthropy still results in the creation of powerful foundations and other...

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New York State Health Foundation Sponsors Report on All-Payer Database & Consumer Transparency

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09/17/2015

... regulations and policies for an all-payer database (APD) in New York State. It also offers recommendations for State ... APD, which would bring together encounter and payment data from Medicare, Medicaid, and...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... Economic Justice “Raising the minimum wage isn 039 ;t just a matter of economics, it’s a matter of civil rights," ... wage has trapped millions of hard working New Yorkers in...

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