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Open Society Foundations Announce Inaugural Soros Arts Fellows

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05/09/2018

... The Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the first recipients of the Soros Arts Fellowship, a new ... delighted to name these eight remarkable artists as our first cohort of fellows.” The 2018...

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New York State Health Foundation Publishes Study on Doctor-Drugmaker Relationship

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06/13/2018

... by the private New York State Health Foundation, is the first statewide look at the financial entanglements between ... analysis found a clear divergence. Doctors who got their first payments in 2014 increased...

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Ford Foundation’s Build Initiative is Hitting Its Stride

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08/14/2018

... be done until similar grantmaking is the status quo, first for the entire foundation, and then maybe even in the ... there will always be a need for project grants, in her first week on the job she said that...

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United Way of New York City Names Gina Goodenow as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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08/15/2018

... President and Chief Financial Officer—the organization's first female to take on this role in its 80-year history. ... recently working as Controller of the March of Dimes—the first female in that role as...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Prize Recipient

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08/22/2018

... partner, Jessica Posner Odede, by opening Kibera’s first free school for girls. Today, SHOFCO is a grassroots ... providing a pathway out of poverty to over 220,000 people. First , SHOFCO provides critical...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

... Synthesis (NCEAS) at UC Santa Barbara have published the first comprehensive analysis of how climate change could ... future of global food security. It provides an essential first step toward helping ocean...

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Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring

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10/03/2018

... adaptation to ecological conditions." The study, the first genetic analysis of a transition from indirect to ... scientist. Many animals develop indirectly, growing first into a larva that must feed...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Jocelyn Frye as New Board Chair

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11/07/2018

... to intentionally and inclusively reshape the nation’s first women’s foundation. Her history of thought leadership ... years in the Obama White House, spearheading former First Lady Michelle Obama’s childhood...

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Warhol Foundation Board Lifts 8-Year Funding Ban on the Smithsonian

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01/15/2019

... next week. The Oscar Howe Project will include the first major retrospective, touring exhibition, and ... paintings, many of which will be on view publicly for the first time. Oscar Howe (1915-1983), a member...

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Research Funded by Leon Levy Foundation Finds Climate Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds

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03/06/2019

... such as the Black-and-white Warbler, are likely to first experience novel climates on their tropical wintering ... temperate zone (above the nation’s midsection). — First 50 years of the next century. This is...

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MAC And Benefit Announce Support For Planned Parenthood

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03/12/2019

... the 25th anniversary of VIVA GLAM, one of the industry’s first 100% giving models that is dedicated to fighting ... endeavor. MAC believes ending stigma is one of the first steps to eradicating HIV/AIDS and...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces Two New Board Members

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05/08/2019

... from Columbia University. Ten years later, he was the first Black African to become a partner at a major New York ... a grandson of Chairman Emeritus Barron Hilton, and the first of the fourth-generation...

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MAC Has Raised Half A Billion Dollars For HIV/AIDS and Isn't Done Yet

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05/25/2019

... fresh out of the Fashion Institute of Technology when he first got a very coveted job working for MAC Cosmetics. In ... the legendary Limelight Disco. But, shortly after his very first months as a bona-fide...

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Jaimie Mayer Named Board Chair of Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/17/2019

... NCF Founder Nathan Cummings and granddaughter of NCF’s first board chair, Beatrice “Buddy” Cummings Mayer, ... NCF’s core values from an early age. This is the first time a fourth-generation Cummings family...

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Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Announces Third Class of Mayors to Go Back to School

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07/15/2019

... class are women with three serving as their city’s first female mayor Thirty nine percent (16) of mayors in this year’s class are in their first year of office Of the U.S. mayors, more than one third ...

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Michigan State University Awarded Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Less Commonly Taught Languages

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07/23/2019

... not sustainably teachable at individual institutions. The first Mellon grant laid the foundation for the project. The research team is now taking the successes of that first grant and expanding it over the...

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National Center for Family Philanthropy Names New President and CEO, Nicholas Tedesco

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09/17/2019

... 2,500 giving families since founding NCFP. NCFP is the first organization to formally offer services for family ... database of family philanthropy resources and was the first to initiate statistically...

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