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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Begins a New Chapter

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... is to listen. She’s been meeting with staff members, board members, donors and community leaders. “I’ve been ... interim CEO Greg Avis and the Community Foundation’s board for righting the ship before she even...

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Gerstner Philanthropies Makes New $15 Million Commitment to Create the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute

Release Date:

02/20/2019

... by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., former CEO and chairman of the board of IBM Corporation, and current chairman of the board of directors of the Broad Institute, to create the ...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation Appoints Martha King as Senior Program Officer and Meredith Korn as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

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06/17/2020

... Martha was the executive director of the New York City Board of Correction. Prior to that, she was a policy advisor ... in the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Network and on the Board of Directors of the...

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Mary Grecco Named Vice President of Finance and Administration at the Foundation for Child Development

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05/04/2023

... firm. “I am delighted to join Vivian, the staff, and the Board as FCD nears its 125 th anniversary working to build ... all I can to be a resource to my colleagues and the Board .” Mary received her Bachelor of...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on NYC Universal Pre-K

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05/13/2015

... Lessons from New York City’s Universal Pre-K Expansion: How a Focus on Diversity Could Make It Even Better is a study in two parts. The first provides background on how universal pre-K programs fit into the...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... -- must protect its DNA at all costs, but precisely how a cell distinguishes between damage to its own DNA and ... at the Salk Institute have discovered critical details of how a cell's response system...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

Release Date:

09/16/2015

... their voices are often absent from conversations about how best to move forward. Insights from these communities are ... to rebuild; they advance collective knowledge about how marginalized groups experience...

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Ford Foundation Taps Elizabeth Alexander as Director of the Creativity and Free Expression Program

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10/07/2015

... inequality, Elizabeth will guide efforts to examine how cultural narratives impact and shape social movements, and how media and the arts can contribute to a fairer and more ...

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Meet The Woman Driving Sustainability And Corporate Responsibility At Tiffany & Co.

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01/26/2016

... a reason for it. We spoke with Kamadoli Costa to find out how she ended up with two jobs, and how the synergy between the Foundation and the company has ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado

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04/29/2016

... The document builds off wildfire and flood plans to show how hazards are interlinked—and how they impact businesses and low-income people. The ...

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Century Foundation Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students

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06/02/2016

... A new report from the Century Foundation examines how to improve outcomes for students who begin college ... "When College Students Start Behind" offers a redesign of how community colleges should...

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Simons Foundation Contributes to Research Outlining Cellular Communication Processes

Release Date:

08/30/2016

... of intercellular communication that helps explain how biological systems and actions – ranging from a beating ... remarkably. The findings are an important basic advance in how cell sensory systems function...

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A Closer Look at NY Fund for Women and Girls, Co-Founded by NoVo and New York Women’s Foundation

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02/09/2017

... the nation and is worth watching closely, especially for how it makes grants. The effort was co-founded by the NoVo ... the NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color support, and how does it operate? A Closer Look...

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Rockefeller Foundation Starts News Site to Spur Resilience Work

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02/15/2017

... natural and man-made disasters have the power to decimate how traditional society was designed to function , the ...

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

... medical research that has the potential to revolutionize how we age and how we heal... Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic ...

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Food Systems

Health

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘ How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was ... started by a question….Knowing what questions to ask and how to ask them is sometimes more...

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Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... Back? When I think about social and racial equity and how it shows up — and how it doesn’t — in philanthropy and the nonprofit ...

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Tides Announces Janiece Evans-Page as New Chief Executive Officer

Release Date:

10/23/2020

... Executive Officer SAN FRANCISCO — The Tides Network Board of Directors is proud to announce Janiece Evans-Page as ... Officer. Following an extensive search process, the Board concluded that Evans-Page’s...

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THE CITY, a New Non-Profit Digital News Outlet Readies for Launch with Support from The Revson Foundation

Release Date:

09/26/2018

... in January. “We’re really hoping to not only do some good here, but also to kind of reconnect people to civil ... already reduced staff. The Village Voice shut down for good last month. The news sites...

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12 Sep 2018

Pathways to Progress: Empowering Youth through Integrated Job Training & Financial Capability - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... Asset Funders Network in this one-hour webinar to examine how integrating job training with financial capability ... both career success and financial security. Explore How philanthropy can support the...