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BNY Mellon Partners With Girls' Leadership Initiative on Stem Boot Camp

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08/02/2018

... In partnership with the Carnegie Science Center, the two organizations have created a science, technology, ... careers,” said Daisey Holmes , co-head of global philanthropy at BNY Mellon, in a prepared...

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Ford Foundation’s Build Initiative is Hitting Its Stride

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08/14/2018

... given mostly small, short-term, project-based grants. Now two years in, Ford’s BUILD initiative is hitting its ... Packard, and a career in policy before that. “Organized philanthropy in the United States is...

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15 Mar 2022

In the Time of COVID - Building Relationships with Grantees Virtually

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

It has been two years since the pandemic hit and our world changed. Our ... Fund Vanessa Rivera , Associate Director, Intentional Philanthropy Jenny Negron (Moderator), Program Officer, ...

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UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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01/28/2021

... in Los Angeles. The collection will include new oral histories documenting Angelenos’ experiences with ... largest concentrations of racial justice scholars. “This new collaboration between Million Dollar...

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Grace Farms Launches Design for Freedom Movement to Remove Forced Labor from the Built Environment

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02/11/2021

... Read at The Fast Company (1/20/21) October 26, 2020, NEW CANAAN, Conn. ꟷ Sharon Prince, Founder and Chief ... participate in the Design for Freedom movement through a two -part webinar series presented in...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

... country’s reopening. Yet even as Schreckineger and his fellows were sharing a meal with freedom ... and Charlie made me promise that I would give journalism two more years,” Shreckinger, the political...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Lourdes Lopez to Board of Trustees

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03/12/2014

... everyone.” Lopez is also the director of Morphoses, a New York -based dance company she co-founded in 2007. Prior to her ... anchors. She then joined the corps de ballet of the New ...

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Hess Corp., J&J Among 2015's Top Best Corporate Citizens

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10/26/2015

Hess Corp., J&J Among 2015's Top Best Corporate Citizens NEW YORK - Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine announced the ... which were also revealed at the annual COMMIT!Forum in New...

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Johnson & Johnson

Thomas Lax and Sanjit Sethi Elected to Jerome Foundation Board of Directors

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06/08/2020

... and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art Thomas Lax ( New York , NY), and President of the Minneapolis College of Art ... Professor of Practice in Art History, Linda Earle ( New ...

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12 May 2022

TAP is Back: The Historic Restoration of Financial Aid for Students Pursuing College in Prison

Thursday, May 12, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

On April 8, 2022, New York State restored Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) funding ... of college in prison, celebrate TAP restoration in New York State and what it took to get...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

Release Date:

08/15/2017

... benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, ... beets. They are relatively rare in nature, compared to the two other major groups of plant...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant

Release Date:

06/11/2019

... Nature Conservancy has issued a Request for Proposals for two additional rounds of grant funding for projects with the ... five grants in the fall of 2018 and plans to complete two additional rounds of...

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Open Society Foundation Partners with Charles Koch Foundation to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank

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07/04/2019

... Koch Foundation to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank Two mega-philanthropists at opposite ends of the political ... think tank that [lays] the foundation for a new foreign policy centered on diplomatic...

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Women 4 Health Care: Helping Uninsured Women Get Covered

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10/01/2013

... to 44) had no health insurance last year, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute. Fortunately, ... way for many uninsured women, including 960,000 here in New York State...

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Sharnita C. Johnson Has Been Named Arts Program Director at Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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12/12/2014

... the arts, including serving in program officer roles at two prominent foundations in Michigan. Since 2012, Johnson ... and support communities engaged in creative placemaking in New Jersey. Dodge currently...

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Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... court that granted marriage equality to LGBTQ Americans two years ago, the news out of Washington these days isn't so ... to gains at the federal level, these funders were focusing new attention and...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States

Release Date:

12/14/2017

... Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, ... age 19 also fell in most...

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Aetna Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation Earn CyberGrants Ovation Awards

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06/27/2018

... Ovation Awards at the 2018 CyberGrants User Conference in New Orleans. The Aetna Foundation and Newman’s Own ... create innovative programming and solutions that break new ground in the industry and for other...

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JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges

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03/19/2019

... public institutions at scale" rather than rolling out " new , untested public programs," while JPMorgan's pledge appears to contain a mix of investments in new and existing programs...