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Pinkerton Foundation Adds $3.8 Million To John Jay Fellowship Initiative

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01/25/2018

... Fellowship Initiative The Pinkerton Foundation announced a grant of $3.8 million to John Jay College of Criminal ... over five years, the Initiative’s goal is to provide a total of 177,000 hours of service by...

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Justice Reform

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The Wallace Foundation Releases New Guide to Help School Districts Recruit Students for Voluntary Summer Learning Programs

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03/06/2018

... especially for children from low-income families. But once a program becomes available, will students attend? A new recruitment guide on how to market summer learning to ... the voluntary programs. Although...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Scientists to Create a "Gut Cell Atlas" with Funding from the Helsmley Charitable Trust

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10/25/2019

Scientists to Create a "Gut Cell Atlas" with Funding from the Helsmley Charitable ... Trust announced $13 million in new grants to create a Gut Cell Atlas , cataloguing the many cell types in the .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Three Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

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04/12/2022

... Michigan, Ann Arbor; Florida State University and Florida A &M University; and Georgia State University. These ... debt. The William T. Grant Foundation will also supplement a grant to the University of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Sepi Sepasi Joins Mellon as Chief Financial Officer

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05/05/2022

... as Chief Financial Officer, effective July 5, 2022. With a career strongly informed by a commitment to the centrality of higher education, Sepi ... leading foundations, I am moved by its mission to build...

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Close the Divide Between Education and Work

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01/21/2016

... Before joining JPMorgan Chase, I spent 7 years running a nonprofit that developed models of collaboration between ... JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills at Work initiative, a $250 million commitment to addressing the...

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Insights

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Workforce Development

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Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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07/05/2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Rockefeller President Judith Rodin to discuss the role of diversity in the arts, economic inclusion, and other topics on the second edition of Insight Dialogues.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Arts

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... big new leeway to states in calling the shots. That's a big change from the No Child Left Behind Act, which ESSA .....

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NYSHealth Invests in Veterans' Health

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02/01/2017

... than at the VA. NYSHealth is committed to working with a broad set of partners to meet our common goal: ensuring ... care and choices about where they get that care. In a new video, NYSHealth staff and...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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National Geographic Launches Special On Gender Revolution

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02/08/2017

... thanks to shifting cultural attitudes and social media as a platform for debate. In response to this phenomenon, National Geographic has launched a two-hour special called Gender Revolution: A...

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Gender Justice

Mellon Foundation Features Harlem Studio Museum Director on How Art Helps Us Understand Diversity

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02/23/2017

... Director on How Art Helps Us Understand Diversity At a time when society is swiftly being transformed, Our ... Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society investigates how...

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Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11

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05/07/2014

... director of Muslim Advocates, explains her trajectory as a little girl growing up in a small town in Upstate New York, freely practicing her religion and sharing her culture, to an adult in a...

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PhilTalks

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Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

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04/20/2017

... to reach as wide of an audience as possible, they said. A partnership between Zero Point Zero and The Rockefeller Foundation helped make that a reality. "With Tony's shows, they're really...

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Food Systems

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Theatre of the Oppressed NYC's Katy Rubin and Devyn Mañibo on the Importance of Fun in Community Engagement

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06/22/2017

In this tag-team PHIL Talk, Katy Rubin and Devyn Mañibo discuss the importance of fun in engaging communities in social justice work, and the power of "spect-acting" in humanizing policy proposals to elected officials.

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PhilTalks

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Open Society Foundations: Central Asia at History’s Crossroads

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07/17/2017

... The region is considered to be burdened by the weight of a history defined by subjugation from its Great Power ... abroad and repression from its domestic rulers at home. A frequent assumption is that if...

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Philanthropy’s Best

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

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10/17/2017

... in the world are food insecure. The world can’t sustain a nourishing food system if the world doesn’t eat more of ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville" Brownsville, Brooklyn, is one of six ... from the rest of New York City, Brownsville is a high-poverty neighborhood that has endeavored to overcome...

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