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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities

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08/05/2013

... partnership with Cornell University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University will fund University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring for minority ... University...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk

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07/30/2013

... 1 in 4 Americans believe they live in an area extremely at risk in the next five years of being hit with a disaster. A superstorm. A mile-wide ... natural disasters, all in the past year, illustrate a ...

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A Nonprofit Lender Revives the Hopes of Subprime Borrowers

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02/25/2014

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America has received $10 billion in funding from Bank of ... loans on its own terms over the next decade, reports The New York Times. WASHINGTON — About...

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The Citi Foundation Launches Pathways to Progress to Improve Career Readiness for 100,000 Youth

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03/31/2014

... to Progress to improve career Readiness for 100,000 youth. New York – The Citi Foundation today announced Pathways to ...

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... for people buying coverage on their own grew an average of 10 percent or more a year during the three years before ... Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund...

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It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

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06/09/2014

... Street Journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund , says that the United States needs "creative new solutions to protect the avalanche of...

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Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards

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06/30/2014

... Awards Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris ... Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism."...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... Top Mathematics Medal Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie Corporation...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91

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08/27/2014

Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91 Philanthropist and civic leader Virginia Sloane died ... social service programs and cultural...

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Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts

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10/02/2014

... will design projects to build audiences through a variety of ways, including new programs as well as nontraditional venues. The ...

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Arts

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People with Health Insurance Still Can't Afford All the Care They Need

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11/14/2014

... the Care They Need As open enrollment season starts, a new survey is providing an important reminder that you need to look just beyond the cost of a health plan's monthly premium to figure out your .....

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

... schools for at least five years, were chosen by a panel of scientists, mathematicians and educators. The Fund for the City of New York and the Alfred P...

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Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising

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03/20/2015

Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising A new study by Philly Political Media Watch finds that during ... 45:1. The study — paid for, in part, by the Democracy Fund...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

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08/21/2015

... five American children and adolescents -- or 17.1 million of the 74.5 million children under the age of 18, according ... treatment. The Healthy Brain Network (HBN) is a brand- new initiative...

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Citi Foundation, America’s Promise Award $3 Million for Youth

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08/27/2015

... have announced grants totaling $3 million in support of innovative, scalable programs that connect youth to ... $250,000 each were awarded through the Youth Opportunity Fund , part of the Citi...

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

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01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive ... to help us deliver maximum impact.” Its support of iFoster, for example, a web platform that helps foster ... organized, shows how the...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry Federal prisons release nearly 50,000 ... some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New Opportunity was announced by an organization...

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Justice Reform

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

... sexual behavior and reducing HIV risk, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study. Since 2004, the U.S. President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has...

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Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere

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05/24/2016

... its efforts entirely on inequality. This shift introduces new funding opportunities for nonprofits that work to combat poverty, the marginalization of women and minorities, and similar issues. But it also ...

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