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Adam Falk Named Next President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Release Date:

06/29/2017

... investments in academic facilities, most significantly a new central library for the humanities and social sciences ... been an extraordinarily successful president, launching new initiatives such as the Deep...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Scientists to Create a "Gut Cell Atlas" with Funding from the Helsmley Charitable Trust

Release Date:

10/25/2019

... B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced $13 million in new grants to create a Gut Cell Atlas , cataloguing the many ... single-cell resolution and in spatial contexts – offer a new frontier for understanding...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Launches with Seed Funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations

Release Date:

09/13/2021

... the launch of the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a new $5 million fund that will support and strengthen the ... with a mission to inspire, empower, and equip a new cadre of leaders with skills and tools...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ford Foundation

Arcus Foundation Releases Social Justice Program Strategy Evaluation Report: 2021

Release Date:

01/23/2023

... both opportunity and necessity for grantees to try new strategies and launch new initiatives that might not have been conceived of in ...

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LGBTQ

Social Justice

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Arcus Foundation

Carl F. Nathan Joins Rita Allen Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

02/06/2023

... Advisory Committee since 2006, helping to support a new generation of leaders in discovery science. “Carl is a ... Making progress toward this goal requires building new knowledge and collaborations across...

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Rita Allen Foundation

19 Sep 2023

State Voting Rights Acts: A Racial Equity Framework for Protecting Community Interests in Redistricting, Representation and Access to the Ballot

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Promote the Vote Michigan Doris Dumas , President, Greater New Haven NAACP Adam Lioz , Senior Policy Counsel, Legal Defense Fund Henal Patel , Law & Policy Director, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice...

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Census 2020

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

To Combat Islamophobia, Start Where You Are

Release Date:

03/23/2016

... Start Where You Are by Maria Mottola, Executive Director, New York Foundation I woke up yesterday morning to the news of ... a responsibility to respond as well. From our positions in philanthropy...

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Insights

A Message from the Funders Census Initiative

Release Date:

04/01/2020

... for education, mobilization, celebration, and reflection. Philanthropy has organized and invested in unprecedented ways ... Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup, and the United Philanthropy Forum to prepare...

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Member News

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Census 2020

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Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

The New York Community Trust

The Bauman Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation

Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

Release Date:

12/09/2015

... agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest repositories of donated ... neurological research by aligning the procedures that the two repositories use to collect,...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

Release Date:

09/28/2016

... 100,000 or more different proteins. Yet, amazingly, only two percent of the human genome actually encodes proteins. ... is transcribed into RNA that does not code for proteins. Two big questions facing...

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Member News

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Immigration Agents Target Brooklyn Criminal Court, Lawyers Say

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... 120 Schermerhorn St. and attorneys spotted them nabbing two men around the corner on Smith Street just after 9:45 ... a.m., said attorney Nathaniel Damren , who witnessed the two men being led away. "I...

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Immigration

Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... percent) of future retirees in that age group and almost two -thirds (63 percent) of those who retired in the past 10 years share that concern. These are just two of the key findings of a recent poll conducted...

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Economic Security

The Future of ‘Zipcode as Destiny': Three Scenarios

Release Date:

01/14/2016

... place-based education and as the basis for entirely new forms of education, such as massive, open online courses ... increasingly complementing place-based work and spurring new forms of work, such as virtual...