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Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

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12/14/2015

... Erik will serve as Program Officer and he joins Andrus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’ s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. ... social issues including for young men of color...

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Century Foundation Quoted in Article on School Desegregation Lawsuit

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01/27/2016

... Lawsuit Alex Cruz-Guzman, who came to the United States from Mexico as a teenager, lives in a poor, minority ... in college—to desegregated St. Paul schools. But it’ s become more difficult to find such...

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Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships

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03/14/2016

... for College/Community Partnerships The Teagle Foundation’ s Board of Directors has approved over $2 million in grants ... and universities to introduce high school students from underserved communities to...

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Nathan Cummings Urges Firstenergy Shareholders to Vote for Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Lobbying Expenditures

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05/06/2016

... that you will be asked to vote on at the Company’ s May 17, 2016 annual meeting. We urge you to vote FOR ... risks to investors. Instead of diversifying away from coal, FE appears to be investing resources to...

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Marlow Kee Named Chief Financial Officer at Simons Foundation

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10/14/2016

... officer (CFO). As CFO, Kee will oversee the foundation’ s finance, facilities and human resources departments and ... at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Kee is a certified public accountant with a B.A...

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Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

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06/22/2017

... "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport" Atta-Mensah, a former public defender, recalls how she first got involved with CVH ... sit across the breakfast table and text the person across from us to pass us...

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Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Seeks Proposals for Investigator Awards

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07/10/2017

... a growing origins-of-life community together. Applications from all origins-related disciplines are encouraged. ... in domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions such as...

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‘Bro’ Adams Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

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07/11/2017

... our national life,” he said. “Bro has been a stalwart public servant, highly regarded educational leader, and ... said a press release announcing the appointment. Michael S . McPherson, outgoing president of...

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

... joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and ... and higher education. Mishory will also join TCF’ s leadership team as a senior policy advisor to...

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Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

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11/20/2017

... opportunities to deploy the full range of Heron’ s “toolbox” (including grants, program related ... earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business and Public Policy from Cal Poly, San...

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New App Plentiful, Funded By The Helmsley Charitable Trust, Streamlines How NYC Food Pantries Feed The Hungry

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12/04/2017

... times and easing the process for food providers. “It’ s faster,” Lucy Roque, 46, a mother of five kids, she as she emerged from the National Council of Jewish Women New York Section ... City Food Assistance...

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Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe

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03/09/2018

... Parkland, Florida, the young gunman attended his mother’ s funeral and was asked if he was upset. His response ... provides insight into the road that disconnected him from his humanity: “I’m just upset that...

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William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action

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04/13/2018

... were studying research itself: how to improve it, how it’ s incentivized, and most importantly, how to “increase ... two new grant programs drawing on its conclusions from that “meta” dive. Both its...

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Through Its Piper Fund Initiative, The Proteus Fund Works to Educate Communities About Judicial Independence

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06/21/2018

... independence and their negative impact, the general public is often unaware of how crucial an independent court ... on state supreme courts. Focus groups consisting of people from four states, who were not...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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JPMorgan Spreads its Urban Development Money to Paris

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11/05/2018

... to Paris JPMorgan Chase & Co ( JPM.N ), the biggest U. S . bank by assets, said on Sunday that it has selected ... with large social housing projects, the area is separated from wealthy Paris only by an...

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New York State Health Foundation-Funded Research Aims to Reduce Gun Violence in Rochester, New York

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11/06/2018

... gun violence in Rochester. With more than $194,000 from the New York State Health Foundation, RIT’ s Center for Public Safety Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts will ...

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New York Health Foundation

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William T. Grant Announce Winners of 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Competition

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04/05/2019

... Institutional Challenge Grant competition. This year’ s winners are the University of Toronto to work in ... of Colorado Boulder to work in partnership with the Denver Public Schools. The Institutional...

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Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR award Plant Humanities Fellowships Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/19/2019

... with the aim of engaging teachers, students, and the public . “The excitement of this initiative lies in its dual ... collections and participate in shaping the digital tool from the beginning and in dialogue...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation and Alloy Development Collaborate on Better Brooklyn Fund

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10/22/2019

... Fund When a new condo development opens in Brooklyn’ s Dumbo neighborhood in late 2020 or early 2021, residents ... the building, and the Brooklyn Community Foundation , a public foundation that will...

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