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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense ... program, now called the Liberty Defense Fund . According to the press release, the initiative would spend “more than $1...

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Lisa Green Hall Joins Nathan Cummings Foundation's Investment Committee

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04/24/2017

... Committee The Nathan Cummings Foundation is thrilled to announce the appointment of Lisa Green Hall to the Board’s Investment Committee as an independent ... in 2013, where she launched a new portfolio...

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ... The plan calls for more than $4.6 billion for the partners to continue providing...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... "Men of Action" Campaign In honor of all that fathers do to help raise and nurture their children with autism - SPARK launched its "Men of Action" campaign to highlight the lengths these...

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of these same firms to apply big data and analytics ...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists

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08/11/2017

... of new award for emerging filmmakers and status updates to the Transnational Cultural Remittances (TCR) and Diverse ... The Foundation's three-year commitment will allow NALAC to continue to...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... have a new source of information (and distraction) thanks to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Leon Levy Digital Archive, ... of a four-year project funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the...

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Collective Impact Without Borders

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08/29/2017

... impact—a structured, cross-sector approach to solving complex social problems—in 2011, we have deepened our understanding of what it takes to effectively implement collaborative processes between different...

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Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law

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09/05/2017

Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law For years, Republicans ... believes public opinion has swung their way, and they plan to spend the fall attacking President Trump...

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

... board trends, but its purview is far too broad for us to manage in the context of one article. Therefore, NPQ will ... this first being the headliner. We mean for these pieces to further both exploration and...

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Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice

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09/08/2017

Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice To support nonprofits that reflect the communities they ... will make one and two-year capacity-building grants of up to $25,000 for projects that seek ...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India As of 2017, 1.3 billion people around the world do not have access to electricity. Of those, 290 million men, women, and...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-...

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

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09/22/2017

... Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth In an effort to reduce youth unemployment in cities through first jobs, ... development, Citi announced an expansion of the Pathways ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

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09/22/2017

... commitments totaling $220 million in support of efforts to empower women and save the lives of thirty-eight million ... meeting, the commitments include a $200 million pledge to the World Bank's Global...

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Westchester Community Foundation Announces Institute for Strong Nonprofits

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09/26/2017

... the formation of the Institute for Strong Nonprofits, to support nonprofits in Westchester County through ... greater impact and sustainability. “We are thrilled to launch the CEO Learning Lab as a way...

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Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... that serve the less affluent sections of town in order to provide raises for city employees and to expand first responder services. The Wisconsin State ... that a group opposing Mayor Jason Gonzalez’s decision...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration? In addition to supporting artists in the many fields in which ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

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10/27/2017

Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund The JDRF T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy ... fund focused on developing life-changing approaches to the prevention and treatment of type 1 diabetes (...

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