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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $29.3 Million to Hellenic Fire Service

Release Date:

07/31/2018

... the wake of catastrophic forest fires that raged for days just east of Athens, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has ... and training programs. Since 1996, when the foundation was launched, SNF has supported the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Supported Researchers Will Be Integral Part of Latest Effort Within NEI’s Audacious Goals Initiative

Release Date:

11/06/2018

... be co-principal investigators on five innovative projects just announced by the National Eye Institute (NEI) as part of ...

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Major Data Release From Sloan Digital Sky Survey Includes Galaxy Maps, New Data Access and Visualization Tools, and a Huge 'Stellar Library'

Release Date:

01/29/2019

... wavelengths. In the past, astronomers typically acquired just one spectrum for each galaxy, but resolved spectroscopy ...

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Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Release Date:

04/04/2019

... Philanthropy Advisors Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors just named Greg Ratliff as its newest vice president. Greg ... Prior to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Greg was a member of leadership team at the...

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Survey Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Elderly Prone to Workplace Discrimination

Release Date:

05/23/2019

... while 43% of adults younger than 45 say the same. "I just think they're not really aware of it," says Wendy Sachs, .....

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New Race to Lead Survey Launches Today

Release Date:

07/17/2019

... pay in the sector and takes about 25 minutes to fill out. Just go to: bit.ly/RacetoLeadSurvey ! Survey participants can ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Surdna Foundation Appoints Sophy Yem as Program Officer, Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/01/2019

... justice and racial equity, and our efforts to promote just and sustainable communities in the United States. She is ...

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Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future of Philanthropy

Publication date:

04/2013

... orientation, priorities, strategies, decision- making , and activities. Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future ...

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

Release Date:

02/15/2013

... the 1970s school-busing crisis there, Orlando Bagwell was attacked by a mob and kicked into the street. He was rescued by a bus driver. Shortly thereafter Mr. Bagwell, a fledgling filmmaker, was...

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Social Justice

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CECP Announces 2013 Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy

Release Date:

02/26/2013

The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy awarded its Chairman's Award to IBM for the Smarter Cities Challenge, a three-year, $50 million competitive grant program to make cities around the world smarter and more livable.

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Good Charity, Bad Charity

Release Date:

08/10/2013

This op-ed by Princeton University professor Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites information from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Atlantic Philanthropies to Award €15 Million to Address Child Poverty

Release Date:

08/07/2013

The $19.78 million grant from Atlantic to the Irish state agency Pobal will be used to support children at risk of poverty within the mainstream education and child care systems.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Charitable-Industrial Complex

Release Date:

08/26/2013

... of his accumulated wealth back to society. In addition to making several large donations, he added generously to the ...

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NoVo Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2013 Jane Jacobs Medal

Release Date:

10/14/2013

The Medal is awarded annually to individuals whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City.

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Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature

Release Date:

09/12/2013

Bend the Arc was among the organizations mobilizing support in California ...

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Workforce Development

Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows

Release Date:

10/14/2013

Advocacy groups are pushing for changes in New York policy to attack what they say is a rising tide of hunger among the working poor, children and the elderly while combating obesity and boosting farming.

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Food Systems

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

Release Date:

10/30/2013

... Foundation and Corporation topped Minnesota’s grant making list for 2012, donating $147 million nationally, ...

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Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by assessing five core questions every grantmaker should be able to answer about how it makes grants.

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Grants Managers

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Commonwealth Fund Unveils New Website and Logo

Release Date:

05/27/2014

Commonwealth Fund's new site layout and more sophisticated search function make finding publications, charts, interactives, infographics, and videos on a broad array of health topics simple.

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform?

Release Date:

05/28/2014

[Atlantic Philanthropies] A few foundations stand out as heroes in the saga of health reform. Remember when Atlantic Philanthropies bravely committed $27 million to help win passage of the Affordable Care Act? Or when the Robert Wood Johnson...