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MetLife Foundation, Sesame Workshop Launch Financial Knowledge Program

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11/22/2013

PND reported that the MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop have announced a five-year, $20 million partnership to improve financial knowledge and strategies among low- and moderate-income families around the world.

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Advisory Board Picked to Help Move Community Schools Plan Forward

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07/17/2014

As part of his promise launch 100 community schools by 2018--including the first 40 in partnership with the United Way of New York City--Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a 50-member advisory board to help implement the plan.

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United Way of New York City

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

The Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group presented seven strategies to advance women in science, engineering and medicine.

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Simons Foundation Initiative Provides Support for Early Career Scientists

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03/25/2015

... Support for Early Career Scientists They will award up to 70 grants every 2.5 years to promising scientists ...

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Stein Innovation Award totaling $300,000 for research into molecular activity ...

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

In the Niger Delta, gender inequality is compounded by the competition for oil, which often leads to violence.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

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Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

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04/27/2015

... collaborations across sectors. To that end, the fund will award grants of up to $250,000 in support of local nonprofit ...

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Workforce Development

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

The South makes up 49 percent of all new HIV diagnoses.

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Health

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."

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Environment and Climate Change

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

The funding will lead biology and genetics research for education programs.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Facilitates Clinical Research with $8.7 Million in Grants

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07/14/2015

The foundation has awarded $8.7 million to 18 physician-scientists to reserve 75 percent of their time for independent research.

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Philanthropists, Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison

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07/29/2015

Move comes as criminal-justice policies place more emphasis on preparing inmates for life beyond bars.

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Wallace Foundation Releases Reports on Successful Audience-Building Efforts

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08/14/2015

The case studies are the eighth and ninth in the 10-part Wallace Studies in Building Arts Audiences series.

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Arts

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... anything they wish. Think of it as a MacArthur "genius award " for nonprofits — courtesy of the Ford, Hewlett, .....

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Ford Foundation Appoints David Barth as Director of Youth Opportunity and Learning

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10/19/2015

... He was the recipient of the Harold Shapiro Public Service Award and the Murray Snider Public Interest Fellowship. In ... the only foreign recipient of the tri-annual Silver Light Award for altruism for his...

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Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows

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04/08/2016

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.

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