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Ford, Carnegie, Bronfman and Others Support New Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good at Boston College

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10/21/2015

... and the Public Good to examine public policy issues in charitable giving, Boston College Law School announced today. The forum's inaugural event takes place on Friday, October 23, 2015, at the University...

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Simons Foundation Recognizes spectrUM as a National Model on STEM Engagement

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10/26/2015

... Foundation also recognized spectrUM as a national model in the “just add science” approach to embedding STEM engagement in community events. . . Simons Foundation Recognizes ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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18 Mar 2016

The Global Goals in New York City

Friday, March 18, 2016 -

9:00am to 2:00pm

... and SDG Philanthropy Platform to discuss how local work in New York City supports the Sustainable Development Goals ... new global goals encourage and enhance domestic programs in the United States? Why do...

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Marsh & McLennan, Tow Foundation Honored Alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda

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03/30/2016

... part of its Educating for Justice Gala on Monday, May 23. In addition, Peter J. Beshar, Vice President and General ... for its work on juvenile and criminal justice reform. The event will take place at 6:00 PM...

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Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches Conversation-for-Action Series, Insight Dialogues

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04/28/2016

... Foundation today announced Insight Dialogues, a live event and digital content series focused on sparking global ... is a way for people to view, learn from, and engage in important conversations in...

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Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises

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08/26/2016

... Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises In her new book, “Blood in the Water,” Heather Ann Thompson offers the most ... earlier. While the retaking of Attica was the bloodiest event...

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03 Aug 2017

FAN Brown Bag Lunch: The Work Life Juggle

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

In addition to quarterly meetings, the Foundation ... is a brown bag lunch series. Come and enjoy your lunch in the company of your peers. This event is only open to Philanthropy New York members...

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Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Seeks Proposals for Investigator Awards

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07/10/2017

... life at one or more laboratories or research institutions in any country. SCOL is committed to engaging the ideas and ... for investigators to interact with their colleagues in different disciplines and...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Names Meghan Jambor Interim Informed Communities Program Officer

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07/12/2017

... Tow-Knight Center at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. In this expanded role, Jambor will continue to direct ... connected and collaborative news and information ecosystem in New Jersey. As Dodge’s...

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Brooklyn’s Crown Heights Residents Direct $100,000 for Inclusive Public Spaces via Brooklyn Community Foundation

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07/13/2017

... Today, Brooklyn Community Foundation announces $100,000 in grants to five nonprofits that are expanding or advocating ... Repair the World NYC will be able to offer our storefront event space to Crown Heights...

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Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

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08/29/2017

... of Ai’s largest projects to date, with pieces going up in major locations like the Unisphere in Queens, Doris C. Freedman Plaza near Central Park, and more. But because nothing of this scale can happen...

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Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease

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08/29/2017

... Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease There are various avenues ... through which philanthropies develop a deep interest in a funding cause. Often, it is...

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The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists

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08/30/2017

... Supremacists Two weeks before the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 300 white supremacists ... Associates of three of the most influential organizations in this space, the Charles...

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Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/19/2017

... a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in immediate relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane ... flooding for both coastal and inland cities in Texas, which is now a federal state of...

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Iceberg That Broke Off Antarctica Was 4 Times the Size of Manhattan

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09/27/2017

... Ice Center confirmed to CBS News. The iceberg break, an event known as calving, involved a chunk measuring close to ... evidence has been pointing to even faster loss of ice in the future, NASA says. . ...

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Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program

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09/29/2017

... DeCosta, the principal of a traditional elementary school in Harlem, was looking for a way to boost her students’ ... and emotional skills. Her search led her to an unlikely event : a charter school assembly...

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Hilton Humanitarian Prize Calls Attention To Growing Need For Global Humanitarian Aid

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10/12/2017

... from their homes, 30 million people facing starvation in multiple famines, and over a dozen wars ongoing on ... continents. More quietly, millions of children still die in poor countries from preventable...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

... the dinner most journalists would die for — especially in light of recent events — and still he was seriously ... to provide young journalists with foreign experience. In Schreckinger’s case, that meant...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

... and autism. “These findings suggest that neural circuits in FXS may be fundamentally intact but improperly tuned, which results in inflexibility in gaining certain types of knowledge,” says...

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