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Sandy support from institutions underwhelms

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10/25/2013

... foundations and corporations gave $297 million for victims of Super storm Sandy as of earlier this month, according to report by Philanthropy New York, a nonprofit comprised of...

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MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion

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10/28/2013

... the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the ... States. The MetLife Foundation has announced the...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

... first hired at the John A. Hartford Foundation, I gave one of the then-Senior Program Officers a giant cup filled with new red pens. It seemed to me at the time that the program staff spent a lot of...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

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04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the University of ... on March 31, 2014. The institute, established in 2012 by a grant from the Simons...

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Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens

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06/01/2014

... Queens The Pinkerton Foundation has announced the launch of a neighborhood literacy initiative in South Jamaica, ... scores historically have been poor, the pilot program aims to help more than three thousand...

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Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

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06/13/2014

... solutions over the past 20 years, especially its efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution. According to Inside...

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens The newly formed New York Botanical Garden's Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... Younger has set for herself as the new chief executive of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to "diversify our grant making and what philanthropy looks like." She also .....

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

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07/17/2014

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to ... years. Foundation president Kerry Sullivan described the grant as part of a larger effort to...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

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09/09/2014

Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists Barbara Picower has ... new foundation has since doubled in size, according to a person familiar with its activities, and...

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NYCT, NoVo on Short List of Foundations who Activiely Fund Domestic Violence Prevention Programs

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09/29/2014

NYCT, NoVo on the Short List of Foundations who Activiely Fund Domestic Violence ... Congress has distributed more than $5-billion in grants to combat domestic violence and its root causes. The ... focused largely...

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

... with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on a program to build the financial health of arts and cultural heritage organizations. NFF has received a $485,000 planning grant for the first year...

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has ... reproductive rights. But it's particularly attuned to the sexual and reproductive challenges facing young...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... has bankrolled a remarkably deep dig into the inequities of the second Gilded Age, with research grants going to scholars across the country who've looked at today's ... has played a crucial, if...

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Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science

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04/22/2015

Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science ... studying dying languages, nuclear weapons, the effects of “dark money” on politics and the history of ... of...

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $400,000 in Emergency Response Funding for 10 Baltimore Nonprofits

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05/14/2015

... Foundation today announced $400,000 in emergency grants to 10 Baltimore nonprofits – current Weinberg grantees – ... unrest and violence in Baltimore City. “Based on all of the information that we have...

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Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment

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05/18/2015

... particularly those supporting environmental programs, was to be ethically and financially consistent. "Our investments were undermining every grant dollar we made," said Geraldine Watson, vice...

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United Hospital Fund Backs Initiative to Address Depression Among CUNY Students

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05/22/2015

United Hospital Fund Backs Initiative to Address Depression Among CUNY Students The grant will address untreated depression among CUNY students ... and information at three Bronx campuses. CUNY School of...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells. The grant...

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