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Target, General Mills, McKnight foundations top list of Minnesota grantmakers

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10/30/2013

... including $26 million for charities and nonprofits in Minnesota, a new study found. Second place went to the ... which donated $104 million, including $19 million in Minnesota. The McKnight Foundation rounded...

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Andy Warhol Foundation to Exhibit Unseen Work, Increase Focus on Grantmaking

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01/04/2015

... Focus on Grantmaking Get ready for a Warhol wave in 2015, and not just at auction. About 40 exhibitions of ...

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Right Wing Website Questions Ford Foundation Motives on Advocating for Net Neutrality

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01/16/2015

... is connected to its multi-million dollar investments in major tech companies. “There is no connection between ...

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NYCT Announces the Retirement of Program Director Len McNally

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02/10/2015

... Program Director for Health and People with Special Needs. In his tenure at The Trust, Len made close to 2,100 grants totaling more than $112 million in areas covering bio-medical research,...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Explores Open Access to Published Research

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04/01/2015

... community continue to provide access to research results in an open access future,” said MacKenzie Smith, UCD ...

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Ford Foundation Hires Michelle Obama’s Aide

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04/17/2015

... on May 4. Ms. Jarvis began working with the Obamas in 2005, when she joined the office of then-Sen. Barack Obama ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Helps Expand Cornell's Prison Education Program

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10/06/2015

... Facility is set to expand its reach at prisons in Elmira and Romulus. A $1 million, three-year grant from ... collegiate programs at Five Points Correctional Facility in 2016 and at Elmira Correctional...

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Using All of a Foundation’s Assets for Mission (F. B. Heron Foundation)

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01/07/2016

... for Mission (F. B. Heron Foundation) For foundations in the future to be effective, they need to use all of their ... Clara Miller, president of the F.B. Heron Foundation. In this episode of the Business of...

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort to build a shared, and searchable, online ... and scholarship about American art. One of the first in the nation to make its entire...

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Carnegie President Credited In Co-Creation of Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity

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04/29/2016

Carnegie President Credited In Co-Creation of Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity On behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, the Aurora Prize for Awakening .....

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Weinberg Foundation Names New Trustee

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05/16/2016

... foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States, providing about $100 million in grants each year to nonprofits that provide services to ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Russell Sage-Supported Study Explores Effects of Education Level On Genetic Make-Up of US Population

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05/31/2016

... study, headed by NYU sociologist Dalton Conley, appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ... was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation as well as by grants from the National Institute...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Report Examines Human Rights Program in Ireland

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06/24/2016

... Philanthropies Report Examines Human Rights Program in Ireland Despite initial resistance, Atlantic ... Philanthropies' efforts to advance human rights in Ireland have had a lasting impact on protections...

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Alison Bernstein, Longtime Ford Foundation Official, Dies at 69

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07/12/2016

... on June 30 of endometrial cancer at her home in East Hampton, N.Y., at 69, writes The New York Times. ... Bernstein started as a program officer with the foundation in 1983 and went on to become a vice...

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Rockefeller and Lincoln Center Bring Jazz to Young People

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08/01/2016

... and Jazz at Lincoln Center are teaming up to put jazz in the ears of thousands of urban school children across the ... Cities Tour” is expected to reach 9,000 students in 60 schools in five...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education

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09/13/2016

... this funder is hugely important given its large footprint in higher ed grantmaking. If you're hustling for one of its many campus grants , which routinely reach into the seven figures, you better have a...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

... permanence, and consistency across these services. In February 2017, ASAPbio received a $1 million grant ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

Employee resource groups — voluntary workplace networks organized around identities (race, gender, sexual orientation) or interests (animal welfare, education) — can be great conduits between companies with philanthropic dollars to spend and...

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