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New Grant from Mellon Foundation Launches Boston Classical Music Initiative

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09/27/2018

... the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Community Music Center of Boston, and the string education program Project ... fund the musical education of middle- and high- school -age classical musicians from...

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The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

... and LGBT funders such as the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice ; and the Black United Fund movement—joined ... meet annually under the aegis of the National Network of Change -Oriented Foundations. In 1981...

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Building and Strengthening Partnerships Across New Jersey: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants

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08/25/2022

... strategy of providing the space, time, and opportunity for each organization to strengthen and build their capacity ... future. As the Foundation continues our transformation to center racial equity and...

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MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

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10/20/2015

... of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael DiBerardinis, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Dr. William R. Hite, Jr., and The Trust for Public Land’s Jeff Danter, Senior Vice President and .....

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04 Apr 2012

GrantCraft is Back!

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8:45am to 10:30am

... recently became a joint program of the Foundation Center and the European Foundation Centre. Please join us for the release of GrantCraft’s newest guide, A Fresh Look at Scanning the...

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2024 PNY Membership Report to the Board

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New Report From the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Probes Tech Use Among Young Kids in Silicon Valley

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03/06/2018

... media because they worry that families do not have access at home. And mixed feelings about the benefits and harm of ... , from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Center for Early...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Basketball Legend Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life

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12/18/2019

... Niarchos Foundation and Basketball Legend Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life ATHENS – ... people ages 6 to 18 to gather daily, from the end of the school day until 9 p.m. The new...

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The Wallace Foundation Names Rotunda Floyd-Cooper, Ed.D., Director of Education Leadership

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03/01/2023

... delighted to have Rotunda Floyd-Cooper join the team at Wallace as director of education leadership,” said Will ... learning of educators and improve academic outcomes for students. Deeply committed to equity...

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Three Education Ideas for NYC’s New Mayor

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10/15/2013

... Listen up, De Blasio and Lhota. As New York City prepares for a changing of the guard pending the upcoming mayoral ... have made some impressive gains over the past decade. High school graduation rates have...

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20 Sep 2023

Community Food Funders Annual Gathering 2023

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5:00pm to 8:00pm

... food system. As part of the evening, we will hear from Columbia County Sanctuary Movement , the recipient of the ... CFF member, just entering the field of food systems change , or a curious bystander. How do...

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How Groundswell is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis

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03/30/2020

... back the curtain on so much that is wrong in our society. For the Groundswell community, what is behind the curtain is ... and could guide our way through the even larger crisis of climate change...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... the cracks, a range of institutions have set out to change the situation. Dozens of school districts, across 15 ... Philanthropies, the coalition is setting a specific goal for which it can...

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A Glass Half Full: Japan’s Disaster Response at One Year

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03/27/2012

By James Gannon Executive Director, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) One year after ... has been record-breaking. A recent media report estimated at least $6.25 billion (500...

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Getting Beyond Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/05/2013

... H. Hamilton Peter Buffett deserves lots of credit for his “Charitable-Industrial Complex” piece inviting us ... small changes solely “to support conditions for systemic change ,” what he calls...

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Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation

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12/19/2019

Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation ... African Americans still experience illness and infirmity at extremely high rates and have lower life expectancy...

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Relationships Matter: Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success

... relationship, what nonprofits say it takes for funders to foster such relationships, and the crucial ...

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Fear, Hope, and Hunger: Inside the Crisis at the Southern Border

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10/03/2019

... Border find themselves. I joined a delegation led by the Center for Democracy in the Americas and National Immigration Forum ... was joined by 15 other individuals from the philanthropic, law...

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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... to shift our grantmaking priorities to focus on combatting climate change and inequality, two seemingly intractable challenges ... it became clear that my vision and the Board’s vision for...

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