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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City

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06/10/2016

... grant making organizations. After graduating, Walker moved to New York City a few years later in part, he said, because of the arts and his exposure to them growing up. Now, as head of the foundation since...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary

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09/06/2016

... film follows the original Broadway cast from the theater to historic locations like Mount Vernon and includes ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Strengthening Protection of Patient Medical Data

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01/11/2017

... physician records, and other information related to medical treatment... Century Foundation Releases Report ...

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Former Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Joins Markle Foundation

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02/15/2017

... job training for Americans, it said. McDonough is coming to Markle as a senior principal, where he will help broaden ... including governments and public institutions, aiming to “ transform...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Mobile Content Guides at New York Botantical Gardens Spring Exhibit

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03/28/2017

... possible by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will deliver content to handheld devices that is dynamically customized to the user’s location, transforming how visitors are ...

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PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

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04/18/2017

PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem One of the PIMCO Foundation’s ... United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and ... our approach...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing The city is seeking proposals to transform the site of the former Greenpoint Hospital — ...

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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000

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08/31/2017

... treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own cells to fight cancer, a milestone that is expected to transform treatment in the coming years. The new therapy ...

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

... development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to scale up climate-smart agriculture, improve forestry and transform the productivity of water use. In an interview with ... (Initiative for the...

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of ... Jay Xu, of the gift, which brings the pan-Asian museum up to the $61-million mark for fund-raising. “Both Akiko and...

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New Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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02/21/2018

... and Ford Foundations There’s a lot of work being done to help people who have served time in prison, to build a life when they get out, to find guidance and ... returning citizens to...

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Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism

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02/23/2018

... on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism Racial disparities in philanthropic giving are fundamentally about whom we trust to lead us to change, whom we think...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire

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05/12/2019

... Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Senior Program ... landscape, and exerted the intellectual leadership to implement it, always working...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces New David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center

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06/05/2019

... Rockefeller Creative Arts Center The Pocantico Center to Adapt Historic Orangerie for Cultural and Sustainability ... on the historic Rockefeller family estate and bequeathed to the nonprofit National Trust...

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ASPCA Awards $8.9 Million to Animal Welfare Organizations in First Half of 2013

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07/29/2013

Altogether, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made 847 grants to 636 organizations in 49 states ... in this article.) NEW YORK—The ASPCA® (The American Society...

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Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience

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10/22/2015

... Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience "Today’s announcement from the ... welcome step that will benefit both fund beneficiaries and society at large. A growing...

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