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Research to Prevent Blindness Grantee Dr. Gregg Semenza Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Release Date:

10/10/2019

... Gregg Semenza Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine Newswise — NEW YORK, NY, October 10, 2019 —Research to Prevent ... Gregg Semenza, MD, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named a winner...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Elizabeth Cahill Joins the Surdna Foundation as Director of Communications and Engagement

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02/21/2020

Elizabeth Cahill Joins the Surdna Foundation as Director of Communications and Engagement The Surdna Foundation has ... its impact, and support engagement with the Andrus Family Philanthropy Program. “I’m thrilled...

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Amy Berman, of the Hartford Foundation, to Be Honored with Grantmakers In Health's Terrance Keenan Award

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12/14/2015

Amy Berman, of the Hartford Foundation to Be Honored with Grantmakers In ... (GIH) 2016 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy . The award pays tribute to health grantmakers ... at the Hartford...

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Dominick Impemba and Susan Kish Join the Foundation Center Board of Trustees

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05/01/2013

The Foundation Center , the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, elected Dominick Impemba and Susan ... American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

PhilTV: Funder Advocacy Is Powerful in Conversation on NP Sector Sustainability

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05/24/2016

... program was live-streamed and recorded on April 26. New York City — With the high-profile collapse of FEGS last year, New York's nonprofit sector has been ... executive director ...

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The Clark Foundation

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, ... and awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants in support of the community-based program. \...

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

Release Date:

03/27/2015

... totaling nearly $3 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego, and University of Illinois, ... minority graduate students in STEM fields. Under...

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Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore

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05/11/2015

... grants to thirty-one Baltimore nonprofits as part of a joint $1.5 million Summer Youth Initiative that brings together three of Baltimore's largest charitable funders. In partnership .....

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City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday the launch of a program to bring high-speed Internet access to so-called ... IBZ will bring high-speed commercial broadband networks to three industrial business...

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Children, Youth and Families

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

Release Date:

07/20/2015

... in Rural China The MetLife Foundation has announced a three -year, $1.8 million grant to Opportunity International ... for forty-two hundred small businesses in rural areas of China; create or sustain more than...

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American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs

Release Date:

10/05/2015

... Programs American Express and the National Association of Secondary School Principals today announced the five winners of the Principals Path to Leadership grant, a giving program ... to increase their...

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American Express

Nathan Cummings Foundation Launches 2017 Fellowship Program

Release Date:

11/04/2016

... that it is accepting applications for the fourth cycle of the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship, which provides three individuals with up to $150,000 each to pursue a ... risks. All proposed projects must...

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Patrick Gaspard, Open Society Foundations and Maria Torres Springer, Ford Foundation Named to NYC Fair Recovery Taskforce

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04/26/2020

... Ford Foundation, Named to NYC Fair Recovery Taskforce NEW YORK —Today, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced steps the ... only about a virus; it’s about the fallout from hundreds of thousands of...

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UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

01/28/2021

... are launching an ambitious initiative to create one of the nation’s most diverse collections of materials ... Age of Mass Incarceration” is being funded in part by a three -...

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22 Apr 2022

Exploring the Impact of Environmental and Social Justice Youth Programming

Friday, April 22, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:00am

As the world continues to wrestle with the impacts of climate change and over-reliance on fossil fuels, ... programming with young people. This panel will feature three BIPOC leaders of STEAM...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Social Justice

Edna McConnell Clark Scales Up Support for Communities in Schools

Release Date:

05/21/2018

... investment from a sun-setting supporter to kick-off its new strategic plan. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation ... announced a four-year, $17 million grant in support of the plan, which involves scaling up...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

20 Apr 2022

Navigating Uncertain Terrain – Trends and Strategies in the Expanding World of Global Grantmaking

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers Network presents this ... will provide updates on the ever-evolving world of international philanthropy laws, giving trends and...

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Tools & Strategies

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Livestream

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Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Aetna Names Garth Graham, M.D., M.P.H. President of the Aetna Foundation

Release Date:

09/02/2013

... has appointed Garth Graham, M.D., M.P.H. as President of the Aetna Foundation . A national expert on health ... we will continue to play a pivotal role in using philanthropy to get to the root causes ...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives NEW YORK, August 13, 2020 — The Andrew W. Mellon ... has awarded a $10 million gift to the City University of New York to drive change across...

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Mellon Foundation

16 Jul 2014

Healthcare Reform Update: Are Your Populations Getting Covered?

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... from this program? You can view the presentations here . New York’s health exchange, New York State of Health, has been lauded by The New York Times as a model ... need more...