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Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

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08/29/2017

... Park Arch (h/t Washington Square Park Blog). Their reasons are threefold: the group says it was not given the ...

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Iceberg That Broke Off Antarctica Was 4 Times the Size of Manhattan

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09/27/2017

... Ice Center confirmed to CBS News. The iceberg break, an event known as calving, involved a chunk measuring close to ...

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Is Seeking Applications For Its Conservation Grants Program

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11/01/2017

... it relates to European art of the pre-modern era. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate ... publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

The nonprofit GroundTruth Project is devoted to narrative storytelling around the world. Its new offshoot, Report for America, is designed to reignite local journalism in

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Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize

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01/25/2018

... efforts to use data to improve health.” Nominations are now being accepted through March 6, 2018. Learn more ...

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MTV Plans to Partner With Ford Foundation to Create a Mobile Voting Registration Unit

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08/20/2018

MTV plans to partner with the Ford Foundation to create a mobile unit where people can register to vote and encourage their friends to register to vote if they see they aren’t signed up. The network also plans to host events across the country on...

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Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time

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03/31/2019

Archivists Bergis Jules and Edward Summers created DocNow to preserve social media posts, enabling activists to document the world’s most important social and political movements.

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Connecticut Seventh-Grader Wins SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite ® Essay Competition

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04/26/2019

... Investwrite ® Essay Competition SIFMA Foundation programs are also preparing students like Kalwat for their financial ... money.” Kalwat concluded. Winning InvestWrite essays are chosen through rigorous...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Errol Louis as Board Chair

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04/04/2022

The Revson Foundation Board of Trustees has elected Errol Louis to serve as Chair of the Board effective March 1, 2022.

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Council on Foundations Appoints Kathleen P. Enright as President and CEO

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10/11/2018

... the Council collaboratively and with humility so that we are better positioned to both advance our mission and support ...

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11 Dec 2012

Wagner's Dream Screening and Q&A with Award-winning Filmmaker Susan Froemke and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 -

4:30pm to 9:00pm

National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, NYC

Join arts and media funders for a special reception, tour of the new National Opera Center and screening of Wagner's Dream , followed by a Q&A session. Wagner's Dream: Official Trailer Wagner's Dream is a sweeping documentary showing a behind-...

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Goldman Sachs, Buying Redemption

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10/26/2013

The New York Times' DealBook section examined the philanthropic giving of Goldman Sachs and its foundation, while PND reported on Goldman's new $250 million Social Impact Fund.

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Group of 11 Leading Philanthropies Announce Steps to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color

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06/05/2014

... men of color. The 11 foundations that issued the report are : the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Atlantic ...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker On His First Six Months

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06/09/2014

Six months into his job as president of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker spoke to Alliance Magazine about philanthropy’s role in solving social problems, institution building and his vision for the future of the foundation.

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Atlantic Philanthropies Offers Best Practices For Winding Down

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08/13/2014

At the same time the Atlantic Philanthropies is working on giving away all its money, it's taking in a great deal of knowledge that could be helpful to other foundations "considering or already implementing a limited-life strategy."

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We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change

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09/23/2014

... leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors are finding common ground, coming up with innovative ... if the world is truly serious about changing the path we are on, it would do well to recognize an...

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How Institutions Take Risks

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10/12/2014

The Atlantic interviews Rockefeller Foundation president, Judith Rodin, about the risks of impact investing, urban resilience and the importance of funding programs in Africa.

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research

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10/27/2014

... climate change disturbances in coral reef fisheries badly impacted by the 1997/98 El Niño, according to the Wildlife ...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces New Grantmaking Areas

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02/20/2015

... the challenges of human development and climate change are often considered in isolation from each other. At worst, these imperatives are seen as being in conflict, with environmental ... transition the planet...

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