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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship that helps the nation better understand and address its legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination.

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Social Justice

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NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’

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03/06/2017

From legal assistance to racial justice training, the benefactors behind the new Liberty Fund are taking a front-line position in the battle to preserve civil rights and basic freedoms.

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The New York Community Trust

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Supported by Greenwall Foundation, Study Finds Two-Thirds Of Americans See Docs Who Got Paid By Drug Companies

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03/07/2017

A majority of patients in the United States visited a doctor who received payments from drug companies, but most have no clue about it, according to a new Drexel University study.

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Health

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

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Science

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Newman's Own Foundation Names Dr. Lynn Pasquerella to Advisory Board

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04/11/2017

Newman's Own announced that Dr. Lynn Pasquerella has been appointed to the Newman's Own Advisory Board. Pasquerella is currently President of the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), where she has served since July 2016.

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed on...

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Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

A dispute over who should lead an elementary school that serves almost exclusively Native American children has been resolved, just in time for the start of classes next week.

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A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle

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09/14/2017

More than 80 percent of the world’s sleeping sickness cases today occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parasitic disease is fatal if untreated, yet difficult to diagnose early.

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

A universal pre-kindergarten center with 180 seats is coming to East 76th Street, providing spots in a neighborhood clamoring for more pre-K options, DNAinfo New York has learned.

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With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City

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09/26/2017

... special-education teachers and paraprofessionals, teaching assistants who tend to work with young students and those ...

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Opinion: How Nonprofits Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve Fundraising

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10/02/2017

Is your AI solution a friend or a tool? To learn more about the use of artificial intelligence to improve fundraising and related philanthropic programs, Ray Wang, CEO and founder of Constellation Research, and I invited Adam Martel to our weekly...

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IRS Audit Guides Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria

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10/13/2017

The prospect of being audited by the IRS is as unsettling to nonprofit leaders as to individuals and for-profit businesses.

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Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality

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12/12/2017

Anti-poverty activists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for-profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts.

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Names Atlanta and Seattle First Winners American Cities Climate Challenge

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09/21/2018

The American Cities Climate Challenge is an unprecedented opportunity for 20 ambitious cities to significantly deepen and accelerate their efforts to tackle climate change and promote a sustainable future for their residents.

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Environment and Climate Change

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COO Roundtable

... largest member foundations asked to create a formal peer network under PNY’s auspices. The group offers these peers ... in an effort to support each other’s work. Join the Network The group is open to current...

Food Funders Working Group

Community Food Funders (CFF) is a philanthropic organizing project that supports the growth of an equitable, ecologically sound, and economically robust food system in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide information, resources, and...

A Quick Word With…Michael Hamill Remaley

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02/12/2014

... website and more in an interview with The Communications Network . For our latest A Quick Word With…, we talk with ... York, who also created this series for the Communications Network . What is an interesting...

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MetLife Foundation Increases Access to Online Capital for Small Businesses

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02/27/2015

... to Online Capital for Small Businesses The Accion U.S. Network , the largest nonprofit micro- and small business lending network in the United States, announced today that it has ...

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation, Cannes Film Market Launch Documentary Film Push Against Inequality

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02/02/2016

The Ford Foundation’s and Cannes Film Market’s networking mini-mart Doc Corner announced a two year-partnership to raise global awareness on social justice, working against inequality.

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