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Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls ... for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced a $1 million pledge from the MasterCard Center for Inclusive ... Project...

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Jewish Board Inherits $75 Million in Deals from FEGS

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06/03/2015

Jewish Board Inherits $75 Million in Deals from FEGS Another Jewish social service agency has ... Employment Guidance Services, which shocked many in the nonprofit and Jewish community when it...

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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older ... People Want We already know what older people want. A study from the National Conference of State Legislatures ... time and again...

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists Astronomers announced this ... the sharpest results yet on the properties of dark energy. A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have .....

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation ... industry it helped create, took its first direct stake in a...

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field Another ... hot funding area of late, as we 039 ;ve covered often. In one recent gift I...

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09 Feb 2017

Becoming a Successful Board Chair: Tips and Advice from Your Peers - Webinar

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

... Board chairs play an important and indispensable role in family foundations. This position is not just honorary and ... preparation, time, and specific skill sets. Join NCFP for a candid conversation as we...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation ... deserving law school students...

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

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08/30/2017

Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an...

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Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018

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07/11/2018

Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018 Diana ... to retire from the Fund at the end of 2018. Diana has been a very active member of the philanthropic...

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LISC Announces $10 Million From Citi Foundation for Bridges Program

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02/27/2019

LISC Announces $10 Million From Citi Foundation for Bridges Program The Local Initiatives Support Corporation has announced a $10 million commitment from the Citi Foundation to expand ... and...

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MIT Receives $8 Million From Simons Foundation for Quantum Research

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06/04/2019

MIT Receives $8 Million From Simons Foundation for Quantum Research The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a four-year, $8 million grant from the Simons Foundation in...

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Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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07/31/2019

Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Eugene M. Tobin, ... program officer for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, will retire from The Andrew W. Mellon...

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With Support from Atlantic and Hartford, Researchers Develop Novel 3-D Imaging Tool

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04/06/2016

With Support from Atlantic and Hartford, Researchers Develop Novel 3-D Imaging Tool In a paper published in The American Journal of ...

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Egyptian Court Rules for NGO, Allowing it to Receive ‘Foreign’ Funds from Rockefeller

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04/20/2016

... Rules for NGO, Allowing it to Receive ‘Foreign’ Funds from Rockefeller An Egyptian administrative court ruled on ... organisations have the right to receive foreign funding, a verdict which could be important...

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Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation

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08/19/2016

Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation Cincinnati 039 ;s Minority Business ... two years. With that award, the foundation has awarded a total of $700,000 to...

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With Support from Citi Foundation, Report Highlights Innovative Education Development

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11/30/2016

With Support from Citi Foundation, Report Highlights Innovative Education ... based on three criteria: whether or not the innovation had a fresh approach, whether it was exportable and could be ... and had enough...

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Gifts From Buffett Include $150 Million For NoVo Foundation

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07/15/2014

Gifts From Buffett Include $150 Million For NoVo Foundation ... of the Giving Pledge, which he and Bill Gates introduced in 2010 to encourage the world 039 ;s wealthiest individuals to .....

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

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10/19/2014

Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change "Easy" is a word rarely used to describe street protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New...

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