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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

... or NAACP, and the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago -- and with a $300,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation -- the not-for-profit Impact ... ETF, with the ticker symbol "NACP," will invest in...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... Park Service The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to ... grant will fund one fellow to work under a leading expert in one of...

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... Carol Anderson said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown 039 ;s Mellon Lecture Series last week. The Mellon ... continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

... How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have A survey, produced by the Commonwealth Fund, included more than 23,000 people from 11 developed countries, and revealed that American seniors were sicker...

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

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12/13/2017

... King Jim and Marilyn Simons became major charitable donors in the nineteen-nineties, when they launched their foundation. They have funded a math center at Stony Brook, and a center for...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

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12/15/2017

... has awarded the Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect positive social change. MIA will launch ... of art made...

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Despite the Pall of National Politics, We Are Bending Toward the Light of Justice

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12/20/2017

... is hard not to dwell on the setbacks we’ve experienced in 2017 for some of the most vulnerable people in our ... years to happen. These announcements took place amidst a growing philanthropic...

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

... actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital Fund (UHF). The ... with assessing technical aspects of clinical quality on a...

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Surdna Foundation, Open Society Foundations and Ford Foundation Collaborate to Start Amplify Fund

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01/05/2018

... and Ford Foundation Collaborate to Start Amplify Fund In 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), a social justice-focused membership organization of community ... Amplify Fund’s emergent strategy takes its...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... our Flawed Health Care System NYSHealth outlines some ways in which philanthropy can best empower health care consumers: by treating patients a partners and pushing for information transparency. ... they can...

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Toshiba America Foundation Announces $110,000 for 11 Innovative Classroom STEM Projects

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01/16/2018

... America Foundation (TAF) today announced nearly $110,000 in grants for 11 innovative classroom STEM (Science, ... that were developed and maintained by students, including a “seed to table” initiative that...

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Philanthropy New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Its Two-Year Public Policy Fellowship

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01/25/2018

... to identify early-career professionals who will benefit from learning about and networking within the philanthropic ... It is designed to increase our organizational capacity in issue-based organizing and...

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President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

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01/26/2018

... of elite politicians, central bankers and financiers in Davos, Switzerland. Most of the panels at the summit are ... dominated by men. The stark gender imbalance has been a major topic of discussion at the...

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Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Former Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society

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02/01/2018

... of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society Paulina Helm-Hernandez, former co-director ... queer artist, trainer, political organizer, and strategist from Veracrúz, Mexico, who has...

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Schott Foundation Report Offers Framework Providing All Children Equal Opportunity To Succeed

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03/01/2018

... for Public Education released the Loving Cities Index , a multi-state report that aims to reverse historical local policies and practices rooted in racism and bias and replace them with policies that create...

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... This year, Salesforce is rolling out the next stage in its compassionate capitalism game plan. Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “social giving platform” that riffs off the company’s ... philanthropy among the...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

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03/09/2018

... Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security A recent study published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences ... has and what they would need to be food secure--using data...

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Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President

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03/22/2018

... foundation, whose grants support liberal education, with a strong emphasis on the teaching role of faculty members, ... on the Teagle board since 2009 and has mixed scholarship in the humanities with a...

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... customers, making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new ... But they also represent the boldest such move to emerge from the...

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Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... Development created by the United Nations to achieve a better world for all by 2030. That includes Goal 2: Zero ... eliminate food insecurity. Last year Pfizer colleagues from around the world, including Peru...

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