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Morgan Stanley and Kresge Foundation Supported Fund Doubles Commitment to Disadvantaged Areas with $100M for Affordable Housing, Health Care

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11/04/2015

... to 40,000 people while also supporting more than 400 new apartments that are affordable to low-income families.. ... staggering problems," said Emily Chen, LISC's program director for the Healthy...

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Kress and Mellon Support First Academic Art Museum and Library Summit

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12/09/2015

... Academic Art Museum and Library Summit The University of Miami will host the inaugural Academic Art Museum and ... Summit next January, bringing together fourteen pairs of library and museum directors from...

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Marlow Kee Named Chief Financial Officer at Simons Foundation

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10/14/2016

... that Marlow Kee joined its leadership team in September as chief financial officer (CFO). As CFO, Kee will oversee ... departments and will help develop strategies to support new research...

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Six Subway Stops, Worlds Apart

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05/15/2015

by James R. Knickman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation It’s just six subway stops ... life spans. How can we start to close these gaps? As a first step, we need to bring...

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New York Health Foundation

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $72 Million to Teams Led by Humanities Scholars to Ensure “Just Futures” and Expand National Cultural Narratives

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01/13/2021

... “Just Futures” and Expand National Cultural Narratives New York , NY – January 13, 2021 — The Andrew W. Mellon ... Michigan): “Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a...

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Elliott S. Fisher Joins Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Board

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03/01/2012

... Fisher is a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth ... Care Policy and Clinical Practice. Perhaps best-known as a Principal Investigator on the...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Corinne H. Rieder honored by American Geriatrics Society with the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award

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05/20/2014

... Public Service Award Corinne H. Rieder, EdD, executive director and treasurer of the John A. Hartford Foundation, was honored at last ... health care providers; and developing and disseminating new...

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017 The Sierra Club and Michael ... deadly coal is a thing of the past," Sierra Club Executive Director...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... National Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ... and communities across the country,” said NEFA executive director Cathy...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

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06/11/2015

... The research will focus on the changes tumors undergo as they become resistant to drugs—the biggest hurdle to ... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer treatment has...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, launched in late 2011 as a special 10-year initiative of the foundation to empower, ... Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new...

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

... research and training model, awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and co-directed by the Arts and ... in the Humanities (MITH), will support a faculty project director , postdoctoral fellows,...

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... some big education names, such Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African ... in this report, and is advising states, including New...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions Workers ... ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington...

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Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers

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04/04/2016

... managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to ... the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This year’s round of grantmaking will extend the...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

... R. Dodge Foundation has not only adopted the red knot bird as a poetic symbol of the modern plight of migrants and ... like a natural fit for us,” explained Martin Farawell, director...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population – are covered by at least one ... life- and cost-saving interventions, according to the new WHO report on the global tobacco...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, led by its Executive Director , Kathleen Lynch, and its projects will be carried ... Table...

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Food Systems

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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm.

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09/26/2017

... embraced one another in greeting. Bartenders poured wine as a D.J. spun tunes and a machine spouted popcorn. This ... big sister and art world celebrity — was the museum’s director and formidable steward,...

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