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Sir Alok Sharma Joins The Rockefeller Foundation to Advance Global Development and Climate Action Goals

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05/22/2023

Sir Alok Sharma Joins The Rockefeller Foundation to Advance Global Development and Climate Action ... as Climate and Finance Fellow. In this role, he will support The Rockefeller ...

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29 Sep 2022

From Cautious to Courageous: How Foundations Can Step up Advocacy & Invest in Change (Session 1 of 2)

Thursday, September 29, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... grantees, there are often questions about how (and when) a foundation can fund non-public charities such as 501(c)(4) ... learn together? Why public and private foundations should support 501(c)(4)...

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The New York Women's Foundation Honors Saru Jayaraman, Dina Habib Powell and Laurie M. Tisch

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10/19/2016

The New York Women's Foundation Honors Saru Jayaraman, Dina Habib Powell and ... on October 13, 2016, which raised nearly $600,000 to support The Foundation ’s mission to achieve sustained...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Zegar Family Foundation Among Leading Philanthropic Organizations to Partner and Commit Over $223M to Reducing Methane Emissions

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10/11/2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Zegar Family Foundation Among Leading Philanthropic Organizations to ... HFCs. Now they are stepping with over four times as much support for governments to deliver on the Global Methane...

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New York Women’s Foundation Receives 2017 Leadership in Equity and Diversity Award from The Women’s Funding Network

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09/07/2017

New York Women’s Foundation Receives 2017 Leadership in Equity and Diversity ... (dis)ability, age, and sexual orientation when making grants . They are also mobilizing philanthropic resources to...

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Relationships Matter: Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success

... and the crucial role that program officers play in the equation. The report finds that in the eyes of nonprofits, the most powerful ways that ... how open they find funders to be to their ideas about the foundation ’s strategy. Findings of the study are based on ...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... confirmed that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources. “Students were surveyed in the fall, winter and spring of freshman year,” said Micere Keels, associate...

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Impact Investing in Education: An Overview of the Current Landscape

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01/2014

... Capital Partners , is part of the Open Society Education Support Program’s efforts to identify innovative financing ... of resources for education systems. Impact Investing in Education: An Overview of the Current Landscape ...

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Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected as a 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow

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10/07/2021

Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected as a 2021 ... fueled by the strength of historically undervalued communities , and working shoulder-to-shoulder with whole ... the next 18 months, fellows...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Latinx Artist Fellowship

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07/22/2021

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Latinx Artist Fellowship Latinx ... of Latin American or Caribbean descent who live and work in the US —have made significant and vital contributions to .....

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Spending a Week on Food Stamps Taught Me a Lesson That Could Aid All Grant Makers

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04/07/2013

An op-ed by Simon Greer, CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation . The number of Americans who are too financially ... number, but still the problem gets little attention in the news and elsewhere... Spending a Week...

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Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy

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06/29/2017

Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based ... approach to connecting American workers and businesses in a rapidly evolving labor market. While advances in ... Training...

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Sozosei Foundation Aims to Set a New Course for Decriminalizing and Treating Mental Illness in America

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10/07/2020

Sozosei Foundation Aims to Set a New Course for Decriminalizing and ... treating mental illness,” said Ms. Beck. “We seek to support and catalyze ideas and solutions to ensure access to ... and support...

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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, ... materials from significant archival collections, to ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz Announces Increase of 2017 Program Grants Budget

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03/15/2017

... Stephen Heintz Announces Increase of 2017 Program Grants Budget Recognizing the challenges to many of the ... climate, the board of trustees has approved an increase in the Fund’s grants...

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

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03/27/2015

Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $3 million to the Massachusetts ... San...

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Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

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04/27/2015

Citi Foundation , America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund ... Alliance have announced the launch of a $3 million fund in support of innovative, scalable programs that prepare .....

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Lauren Hadi Joins the Schott Foundation as Senior Vice President of Advancement

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12/16/2020

Lauren Hadi Joins the Schott Foundation as Senior Vice President of Advancement New York, ... dedicated to improving educational opportunities for underserved students. Prior to joining Schott, she spent .....

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Mellon Foundation and Digital Preservation Coalition Sponsor Formation of Task Force for Email Archives

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11/03/2016

Mellon Foundation and Digital Preservation Coalition Sponsor ... at Urbana-Champaign, and Kate Murray, IT specialist in the Technology Policy Directorate at the Library of ... by the sheer scale of the collections...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Launches Initiative to Protect Refugee Children in Greece

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03/29/2016

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Launches Initiative to Protect Refugee Children in ... has announced the launch of a grant initiative to support nongovernmental organizations working to protect .....

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