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Mellon Foundation Gives $500K to UC Merced for Humanities Undergrad Research

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07/19/2016

... graduate studies and scholarly careers, thanks to a new program that will serve 60 students over the next three years. The program , funded by a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. ...

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New York Community Trust Announces Semifinalists for 2016 Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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08/03/2016

... The New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program , in its 10th year, announced today 11 nonprofit ... New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards, a program created and run by the...

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The New York Community Trust

The Bronfman Fellowship Announces 31st Application Season

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11/03/2016

... now being accepted for the 31st year of this prestigious program . The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North ... the fellows’ junior and senior years of high school. The program educates and inspires...

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New York Community Trust Supports Fellowship to Build Diversity in Arts Management

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01/31/2017

... to Build Diversity in Arts Management "This fellowship program will enable BRIC and our partners to invest in the ... Council on the Arts' Regional Economic Development Council Program (REDC) for...

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries.

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Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families

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02/14/2017

... plans to launch Read to Kids Jordan in late 2017. The program will be made possible through a $1 million grant ... Parents and caregivers will be able to access this program from an internet browser on their...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

MetLife Foundation and Special Olympics Announce International Partnership

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04/28/2017

... Young Athletes is an inclusive sport and play program for children, ages 2 to 7 years old, with and without intellectual disabilities. The program develops participants’ basic sport skills, such as ...

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75,000 Apply for State College Scholarships, but Many Won’t Qualify

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08/28/2017

... won approval for his groundbreaking Excelsior Scholarship program to make college tuition-free for some students at New ... Instead, 75,000 people applied. And that means, in a program designed to help make...

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Did You Get Free SUNY Tuition? NY Reveals Figures

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10/02/2017

... Alyssa signed up for New York's free college tuition program , but found out she was ineligible. School counselors ... not allowed to participate in the Excelsior Scholarship program . "It’s totally...

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How Do I Master That Skill? LinkedIn, Markle Want To Help

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03/18/2016

... with employers; whether or not they’re accredited; the program ’s employment rate, cost, and duration; the skills the program will teach them; the jobs they’ll be qualified for when they complete the ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

... to support the University’s Open Graduate Education program . Launched in 2011 with prior support from the Mellon Foundation, the program enables doctoral students to simultaneously complete ... a different...

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New York Life Foundation Invests in Expanding Access to Summer and Afterschool Learning

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04/23/2019

... develop new solutions to support its national network of program partners, which aim to strengthen the academic and ... and social emotional skills," said Marlyn Torres, senior program officer, New York...

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Mike Bloomberg Sends Statement to the United Nations Following Unprecedented Outpouring of Support for Paris Agreement

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06/06/2017

... subnational actors. America’s Pledge will aggregate US climate action, building upon the Global Covenant of ... actors in achieving the transformations that will take us to a low emission, resilient world...

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Here's How to End the Culture of Sexual Harassment

Release Date:

01/16/2018

... have power. Too often today, they are being used to tear us down and apart, making us feel helpless and defenseless. Alternatively, words can build us up, strengthen us and...

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J.P. Morgan commits $20 million in support of Latino-led businesses

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03/29/2022

L’ATTITUDE Ventures, a venture fund focused on supporting U.S. Latino-owned startups, has received a $20 million commitment from J.P. Morgan

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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How Foundations Use Communications to Advance Their Public Policy Work

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05/2010

This study examines how foundations that wish to engage in public policy are using communications to expand the reach and impact of their work. It reveals that communications is at the very center of successful policy engagement for the foundations interviewed, which make use of ten distinctly different strategies to boost their policy engagement. Among the foundations included in the study are The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.