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Your VISION for 2025 – A Report on Year One

... set forth ambitious goals in the areas of programming, public policy and institutional sustainability that would be ... choices, such as: Bamboo cabinetry that is made from 100% rapidly renewable bamboo A...

Ford Foundation Awards $2.7 Million to Artspace for Creative Placemaking

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01/14/2013

... Artspace Projects, Inc. has announced a $2.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation in support of efforts designed to ... Artspace Projects, Inc. has announced a $2.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation in...

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Modern Dance Groups to Get Hurricane Sandy Aid

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12/25/2012

... Sandy. Among the huge outpouring of relief for damages from Hurricane Sandy nearly two months after it hit, a modest ... dance in New York City. Starting in early January checks from $1,000 to $5,000 will go...

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Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Releases Final Report

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05/28/2013

The foundation’ s $340 million graduate-level fellowship initiative has, over ... twelve years, helped more than 4300 social justice leaders from 22 countries advance their education and bring new ... African...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Moving to Crown Heights this Summer

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04/09/2014

... to Crown Heights this summer. This August, Brooklyn’ s community foundation will have a memorable new address in the heart of the borough: 1000 Dean Street. Relocating from DUMBO to Crown Heights, Brooklyn...

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First Payment Made Toward Detroit's 'Grand Bargain'

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12/12/2014

First Payment Made Toward Detroit' s 'Grand Bargain' The first “grand bargain” payment ... retirement systems this week as part of the city’ s exit from bankruptcy. The Foundation...

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Simons Foundation Funds Groundbreaking Autism Research

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12/15/2014

... responses and related inflammation, an analysis of data from autopsied human brains reveals. The study, a ... and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, included data from 72 autism and control brains. It...

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Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties

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02/05/2015

... Over the past two decades, the Internet has evolved from an obscure Defense Department project to a global ... phenomenon. Now, say a group of foundation leaders, it’ s time to make sure it is a force for good...

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Mellon Foundation Gives Inaugural National History Teacher of the Year Award

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03/13/2015

... teacher in Michigan to receiver the prestigious honor from The HISTORY Channel and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. “It’ s unbelievable,” said Anderson, 43, of New Boston, who is ... and...

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Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

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03/13/2015

... bias’ they are raised with later on. We can fix it from the very beginning.” The Academy Award-Winning Actor, ... Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, said the data from her research shows “disturbing”...

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Rita Allen Foundation Passionate About Funding Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems

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08/26/2015

... Breakthrough Solutions to Significant Problems The view from the third-floor corner office at 92 Nassau St. is one of ... and bustle of one of the busiest main streets in town. From where she sits, at a...

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... American Art Museum is leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort to build a shared, and ... through Linked Open Data (or LOD), SAAM received a grant from the Andrew M. Mellon...

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

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04/05/2016

... Community College, the City University of New York’ s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned ... community college in more than four decades, will relocate...

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Doris Duke Teams Up With Chicago's Stomping Grounds Dance Festival

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04/29/2016

Doris Duke Teams Up With Chicago' s Stomping Grounds Dance Festival STOMPING GROUNDS is a ... groups. STOMPING GROUNDS is made possible by major support from the Chicago Free For All Fund atThe Chicago...

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Century Foundation Report Analyzes 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face

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05/18/2016

... 'Identity Threat' Some College Students Face A new report from the Century Foundation considers the issue of "identity ... in college. The report suggests that students face bias from some...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

... Identify Issues Facing Trans Community The journey from transitioning from male to female was a struggle for Kelly Leigh Metzgar. ...

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Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining

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08/01/2016

... The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician ...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

... experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers. Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow ... of teacher by subject matter—will be decided with input from teachers themselves...

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Commonwealth Fund Brief Explains ACA’s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing, Spending on Premiums

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09/13/2016

Commonwealth Fund Brief Explains ACA’ s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing, Spending on Premiums ... through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is protection from high out-of-pocket health spending. While Medicaid...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Supports Group to Register Dominican-American Political Power

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10/06/2016

... The non-profit group Dominicanos USA got initial funding from the Vicini family, wealthy Dominican sugar tycoons. But ... new funders in the last year, including other businesses from the Dominican Republic...

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