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Hilton and American Express to Donate Up to 1 Million Rooms to Frontline Medical Professionals During COVID-19 Crisis

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04/06/2020

... Express (NYSE:AXP) today announced that the companies, in partnership with Hilton’s ownership community, will ... seen so many examples of medical professionals working in the most challenging circumstances,...

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces COVID-19 Response Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee Workers in the U.S.

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05/11/2020

... Response Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee Workers in the U.S. Earlier this month, the World Education Services ... and janitorial service workers. They also rank high in industries hardest hit by the...

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Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century Foundation

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07/22/2020

... Report from The Century Foundation America is in the midst of a profound political reckoning. Against the ... K–12 public education system. By underinvesting in our public schools, we rob millions of American...

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The Century Foundation

How Can Philanthropy Elevate Entrepreneurialism Through Crisis?

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07/22/2020

... By: Sharon Prince, Founder and CEO, Grace Farms Foundation In order for foundations to harness our collective capacity ... and even take calculated risks. On a zoom call in mid-March, when local officials...

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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

... is the largest gift the Mellon Foundation has made to CUNY in its 45-year history of supporting the nation’s leading ... university. The funds will advance CUNY’s programs in Black, race, and ethnic studies...

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Mellon Foundation

McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Awarded to Emerging Organizations Challenging Entrenched Inequities

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10/14/2020

... McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund. The Fund is awarding $75,000 in total this year to five exceptional organizations that ... individuals to advance an anti-racist and equitable vision in the US, to incubating a...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Puerto Rico Youth Fellows

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01/13/2021

... promote human rights, and help underserved communities in Puerto Rico. The fellowship program, now in its second ... J. Laracuente Vázquez (pronouns: he, him, his) will lead Taller Lumpen, a...

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Open Society Foundations

We are In a Time of New Suns

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10/19/2022

We are In a Time of New Suns By: Taryn Higashi, Executive Director, ... published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy in August of 2022. The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s ... vibrant, welcoming...

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Unbound Philanthropy

For Jobseekers: What is a foundation?

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04/2014

... or other charitable purposes. Foundations vary widely in size and scope, from large, national corporate giving ... be used interchangeably, and grantmaking refers to the practice and process of awarding grants. A nonprofit ... organizations to make grants from the donor’s fund. In practice , most community foundations make grants from advised ...

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Ford Foundation

Technical Assistance and Strong Relationships: Key to Quality Capacity Building

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09/15/2014

... management and programmatic capacity of its grantees. In the 80’s, the Foundation recognized that community-based ... of our grantees. As a former educator, I strongly believe in the importance of learning...

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Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

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09/17/2014

... simply and insightfully to drive enterprise value creation in a complex and noisy global economic environment. Recently ... approach to investing front and center. Investing in enterprises—focusing on the past...

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05 Nov 2014

Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy’s Role?

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2:30pm to 5:00pm

... View resources and the live recording here . Leaders in nonprofits, government and philanthropy are united on the ... to revise their nonprofit contracting practices in a manner that would increase funding to...

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17 Mar 2015

The Promise of Community Schools in NYC

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8:30am to 1:30pm

... center on: the cross-sector promise of community schools in supporting communities, the vision and principles that drive community school practice , and the role of philanthropy as a positive, ... Restoring...

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John A. Hartford Foundation and Commonwealth Fund Support Journalism Fellowships That Recognize Top 'Age Beat' Reporters

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10/20/2015

... reporters for the next cohort of the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, now in its sixth year. They represent a wide range of general ... Scientific Meeting -- scheduled for November 18 to 22 in...

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Walter Panzirer, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Trustee Shares Rural Healthcare Program's Telehealth Support During COVID-19

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11/17/2020

... quality of life, but it creates significant challenges in the delivery of healthcare services. Folks in remote locations face a shrunken supply of primary-care ... but COVID has prompted insurers to adjust...

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Arcus Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

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10/15/2021

... Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind Conservation of endangered apes and their forest ... the Indigenous Peoples and local communities who also live in and depend on these...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Animal Welfare

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Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

... newly developed curricula that both instruct students in methods of humanities practice and clearly demonstrate those methods’ relevance ... to see and experience the applicability of humanities in...

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