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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

... boost a student's chances of enrolling in college, but it may also cost less per graduate. These small schools ... outside funding, including from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the Carnegie...

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Education

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation will announce a $200 million offshoot next month, ... and his son Michael Peterson, the president of the foundation , are seeking to further slow...

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War"

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02/12/2015

... for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and the Bob Woodruff Foundation today announced an expansion of their partnership ... among others. The partnership will fund 20 Bob Woodruff Foundation -Jonas Nursing...

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Veterans

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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

... Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has a keen interest in empowering women by expanding reproductive rights. But it 's particularly attuned to the sexual and reproductive ... the...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... against inequality will take center stage at the Ford Foundation under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the ... financial, racial, gender, and other inequities, but it will give lots more money in a way...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said NoVo Foundation Executive Director Pamela Shifman, who assumed ... was directed toward work in the Global South, which the foundation plans to continue,...

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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library

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10/26/2015

... Manuscript Collections (RMC). A $4 million grant from the foundation – one of the largest gifts to the library in its ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... in the process. But to many tenants and homeowners, it feels like a violent shove out of the way, especially for ... There Goes the Neighborhood has been provided by the Ford Foundation , Andrew W. Mellon...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum ... sources over the next five years. If the match is met, the foundation will kick in...

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... (NACo) are working with Aetna’s independent charitable foundation on the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge , ... healthier. To prompt communities to take part, the Aetna Foundation is putting money on...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation . Today, the foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with ...

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... States Artists Campaign The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million ... Ibargüen, President & CEO of the Miami-based Knight Foundation , announced the campaign...

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How Ford, Rockefeller Supported "Street Orgs" in the 1970s

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06/03/2016

... Vice Lords were actually given $275,000 by the Rockefeller Foundation for their organizing work, and the Ford Foundation granted them $130,000, part of which was used for ...

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Would John D. Rockefeller Opt for an LLC? A Conversation With Judith Rodin

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06/23/2016

... an LLC? A Conversation With Judith Rodin The Rockefeller Foundation may be one of the most venerable names in ... chieftains worldwide. She broke new ground for the foundation by supporting efforts to buttress...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... A. McCann, in a report published for the Russell Sage Foundation . Jones-Correa and McCann used a new survey, ... are contained the new edition of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences...

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With Surdna and Open Society Support, Equitable Economic Development Fellowship Launches

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06/29/2016

... the fellowship, which is generously funded by the Surdna Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, economic ...

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Community Development

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Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

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09/21/2016

A program of the Open Society Foundations, Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United...

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Three PNY Members Join GCIR Board

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01/30/2017

... Program Officer, Youth Opportunity and Learning, Ford Foundation Shawn Morehead , Program Director, Promising ...

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The New York Community Trust