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More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... now severely food insecure and about 400,000 children are at risk of malnutrition. . . More Than 1 Million People ...

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Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members ... advisory commissions on educational excellence for black, Hispanic, and Asian American...

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Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism The News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced $1.8 million in grants that...

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Communications/Media

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The Tow Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for -profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition ... Cuomo's desk, doesn’t weed out the significant number of for -profit...

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

Release Date:

02/22/2018

... of regulatory noncompliance: the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) and the American ...

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Why Bloomberg Philanthropies Focuses on Teacher Salaries as A Key Component to Education Reform

Release Date:

04/30/2018

... student achievement. When Bloomberg Philanthropies looks for school systems around the country to support, one of the ... teachers there made $31,000, with median pay at only $45,000...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Grants $1.25 million to Support Aging-in-Place Services

Release Date:

07/23/2018

... today announced a gift of $1.25 million to Habitat for Humanity to support aging-in-place services for low-income older adults. Habitat will implement a program designed by Johns Hopkins School...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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05 Oct 2021

Making Up For Lost Time: How Funders Can Support Tutoring Interventions That Accelerate Learning

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... of disrupted learning, many students are entering this school year with significant gaps in core skills and ... in a way that can reach the students with the most need for these interventions. This session...

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Children, Youth and Families

EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation Announces New Grants in Emerging Market Countries

Release Date:

01/13/2022

... internally. This fiscal year, EMpower has budgeted for significant growth in its global grantmaking to be able ... of the board approved grants that we are supporting: School of Hard Knocks (SoHK), South...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

International/Foreign Affairs

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07 May 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 7, 2015 -

5:00pm to 8:30pm

In the 1960's, ready or not, change was coming to America. A new revolutionary culture was ... not only feasbible, but imminent. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short...

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Film Screening

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

Release Date:

01/06/2016

... It hardly bears repeating that there has been massive change in the factors that affect US household finances in ... are not trivial. Recent data show that wages are stagnant for a wide swath of earners,...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

Release Date:

08/21/2018

Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative Today, the Peter G. Peterson ... and fiscal trends that will shape the nation at mid-century. In the coming decades, a...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Ford Foundation

Supported in Part by the Rita Allen Foundation, Researchers Discover New Protein Factor That Contributes to Cancer Cell Migration

Release Date:

11/01/2018

... expression patterns. These gene expression changes are key for quiescent cells to reenter the cell cycle and molecular changes in response to a wound are important for the role of fibroblasts in healing. When...

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Bank of America, Water.org Expand Partnership to Bring Safe Water to India and Brazil

Release Date:

11/02/2018

... with safe water and sanitation, accelerating positive change in their homes and communities. Water.org received a ... with safe water and sanitation, accelerating positive change in their homes and communities...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Leticia Peguero, Vice President of Programs

Release Date:

11/27/2018

... experience leading and managing programs and grantmaking at the intersections of social and racial justice and the ... in philanthropy in support of greater impact and positive change making in communities. As...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Listen to A. Nicole Campbell in Conversation with DeAnna Hoskins: "The Integral Role of Cultural Competence in Movements"

Release Date:

04/07/2022

... Competence in Movements”. DeAnna Hoskins has been at the helm of JLUSA since 2018. A nationally recognized ... public speaker, she has been committed to the movement for racial and social justice, working...

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Build Up Companies

12 Dec 2023

Service for Impact - Winter Meeting

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 -

9:30am to 11:00am

The Service for Impact working group, rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service, provides a unique opportunity for both corporate grantmakers and corporate volunteer ... in recent years and how these changes...

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15 Apr 2025

The Art of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Collaborative Models for Nonprofits - Hosted by PNGP

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Greater Philadelphia's Meeting the Moment series, join us for an informative discussion about the unique dynamics of ... Repositioning Fund, and John Macintosh, Managing Partner at Sea Change...

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Tools & Strategies

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Livestream

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Nonprofit Financials