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MetLife Foundation Innovation Competition Recognizes Indian Entrepreneur

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05/03/2017

... Entrepreneur Swadhaar Saathi has been announced winner of the MetLife Foundation Inclusion Plus competition ... its money management application and collected a grant of $100,000. The Swadhaar Group is...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... million for the Greene Scholarship Challenge fund, a first- of -its-kind matching scholarship fund designed to encourage ... to learn and practice essential legal skills as part of their clinical education.....

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

... bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project that was selected to receive a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund. ...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development, marketing and back-office management of the programs...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of the risk of innovative projects from cities to investors. The ...

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Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

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08/30/2017

Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans ... Sixty days ago Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and...

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What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

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09/07/2017

... brought to the United States as children, dozens of universities declared their virtually unanimous opposition ... and higher-ed systems and associations issued a cascade of critical statements — a wave...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... efforts on mitigating campus sexual assault, a hallmark of the Obama years. BuzzFeed had also reported that the ... notice and comment. Advocates have viewed the issuance of that letter, which used the gender-...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... President Trump has proved to be the commander in chief of mixed messages. But even for him, the nighttime tweet on ...

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More Healthful Kids Meals? Panera CEO Dishes Out A Challenge

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09/27/2017

... nuggets. French fries. Pizza. Repeat. This repertoire of kids menu items may seem familiar to many families, but ... fast-casual chain aims to put a lot more options in front of its young customers. Beginning...

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How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit

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10/03/2017

... year, the charity world waits eagerly for the announcement of how much individual Americans gave to charity. And each ... doggedly climbs higher, faltering only occasionally. Four of the past five years, it...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday

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10/17/2017

... Match on Giving Tuesday Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the return of its #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday campaign, which aims to drive awareness and donations to a diverse cohort of...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced on June 5, 2018, that Heather Gerken, Dean of Yale Law School, has been elected to its Board of...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Continues Commitment to Great Barrier Reef Conservation Efforts

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07/17/2018

... organism, encompassing an area approximately the size of Italy and hosting some of the richest biodiversity on Earth. However, various ... from human activity—have led to a widespread decline of...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $29.3 Million to Hellenic Fire Service

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07/31/2018

... $29.3 Million to Hellenic Fire Service In the wake of catastrophic forest fires that raged for days just east of Athens, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has announced ... . The grant will cover the maintenance...

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Arcus Grantee, Dr. Kristina Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor

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10/23/2018

... Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor Dr. Kristina Olson of the Trans Youth Project, an Arcus grantee who was recently ... announced as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Dr. Olson is one of 25 leaders to receive the...

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Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications

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12/04/2018

... Through this process, we aim to identify a strategic mix of long-term grantees who can contribute to advancing our ...

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Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive

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07/25/2019

... African American Photographic Archive A consortium of four foundations — the Andrew W. Mellon , Ford , ... J. Paul Getty Trust — has announced the acquisition of an historic African-American photographic...

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University of San Diego Chosen for The Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Student Social Innovation Challenge

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09/19/2019

University of San Diego Chosen for The Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen ... SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of San Diego's Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge ... announced today...

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