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Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2017 Young Artist Residency Pilot Recipients

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06/02/2017

... week residency experience at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Crystal Henry Bronx, NY Devin Reynolds New Orleans, LA Audreamia Wardlow Yonkers, NY ... who they felt met the criteria of this pilot...

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Arts

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Simons Foundation, Stony Brook University Partner to Improve Diversity in STEM Fields

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05/11/2022

... STEM Fields Stony Brook University has announced a major new initiative funded by the Simons Foundation and its sister ... providing scholarships, housing and stipends to 50 new students each year. “We could...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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COVID-19: Sharing Information

... a webinar or virtual meeting to share? Add to the Regional Calendar . COVID-19: Sharing Information ...

World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund Supports Launch of Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative in Philadelphia

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01/15/2020

... by: Office of Workforce Development, Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians | Contact: Marjorie Morris ... 215-825-7770 PHILADELPHIA –Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’s...

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World Education Services / WES Mariam Assefa Fund

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Private Assets and Public Space: A Conversation with John Tyler, Steve Johnson, and William Dietel

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09/25/2009

... the community or mandating pursuit of broad-based social justice purposes. The reach of these proposals reflects the ... and arguably more important questions on the table here: What are private foundation...

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17 Sep 2015

How U.S. Funders Can Respond to the Current Global Refugee Crisis - Webinar

Thursday, September 17, 2015 -

4:00pm to 5:30pm

... and indirect impacts of this crisis on the United States What philanthropy is doing and what more can be done to respond—in the United States, in ... Heller, Director and Co-Founder, Iraqi Refugee Assistance...

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Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, Study Shows Alzheimer’s Patients Have Lower Perception of Pain

Release Date:

07/13/2016

... pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in ... that could have a serious impact and potentially lead to tissue or organ damage, said the...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Health

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NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement

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05/04/2017

... from the noxious facilities in their neighborhoods to lead in their drinking water. They are on the ... coping with climate change and other environmental burdens lead the way toward a more just, sustainable...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commentary: “Visibility” and Corporate Foundations

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10/22/2009

... we want to encourage a space where people can openly say what they want, an occasional commentator may feel ... A successful visibility plan does not track how many new donors the grantee was able to recruit...

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Century Foundation Scholar Releases Report on The Future of Statewide College Promise Programs

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03/07/2018

... common pathway for states to pursue urgently needed new —though frequently narrow—investments in higher ...

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Education

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Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... to marry nationally. Titled “Winning Ingredients: What Philanthropy Can Learn from the Marriage Equality ... victory on the issue this past June. (Highlights of the event included the premier of a short film...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding

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02/02/2016

... Clark Foundation (EMCF) and nine other donors announced a new investment inititative called Blue Meridian Partners, ... to marshal resources of this scale in areas such as global health and land conservation...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Robert Sterling Clark: Supporting Our Grantee Partners in the Era of COVID-19

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03/19/2020

... lives – more hand sanitizer, fewer in-person meetings, new memes. New phrases started to permeate our professional ... Advocate within the philanthropic community to convert project -based...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Kresge Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Launch $30 Million Detroit Revitalization Fund

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09/18/2013

With support from MetLife and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, among others, the fund will provide long-term fixed-rate loans to mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented projects that promote density, diversity, vibrancy and...

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... accompanying toolkit for its Statewide Website Evaluation Project . The project assessed the quality of centralized legal information ... legal documents. The Statewide Website Evaluation Project...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President

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09/05/2017

... Eric Adams released his recommendations for the embattled project . His input is a necessary step in the Uniform Land ... are in the midst of as part of a larger rezoning for the project . Unsurprisingly, Adams’...

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Housing and Homelessness

Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

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08/27/2012

... to address the disparity. At the start of the new millennium, it was clear to the senior leadership of the ... who were tenured research scientists in all of Israel. What was responsible for the gap—and...

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Do You Promote or Impede Real Change?

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08/21/2017

... parts of the world, including Brazil, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, throughout the Caribbean and those further ... this exciting and challenging path, I have also realized what many of my colleagues have...

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