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Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

Launched in 2011 with prior support from the Mellon Foundation, the program enables doctoral students to simultaneously complete a master’s degree in a different field of study.

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Salesforce.org Announces $18 Million in Grants Towards Bay Area Education, Homelessness and Cleanliness at Dreamforce 2018

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09/25/2018

The $18 million includes $15.5 million in grants to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), $2 million dollars in grants to address homelessness and hunger in the Bay Area, and a $500,000 grant to...

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Surdna Foundation Announces Refined Program Strategies

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09/26/2018

The Surdna Foundation announced today refined strategies for its grantmaking programs, intended to reflect the Foundation’s belief that racial justice must underpin social justice.

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Report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Finds Funder Collaboratives for Systems Change Gaining Momentum

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10/01/2018

Based on interviews with three dozen individuals who work with or in funder collaboratives or organizations focused on achieving the kind of scale needed to create systemic change, the report, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems: Approaches...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Newman's Own Foundation Provides Over $1.7 Million to Support Nutrition Initiatives

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10/02/2018

The funding will support many programs, including efforts to help create and enhance nutrition in schools and communities, provide access to fresh fruits and vegetables in underserved communities, and offer education programs about healthy and...

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Food Systems

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Adam Gamoran, President of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spoke at GW University About How Universities Can Conduct Better Research

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10/15/2018

The event, titled “Can Universities Serve the Public Good?”, was hosted by the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Following welcoming remarks from Provost Forrest Maltzman, Gamoran spoke about the importance of reshaping incentives...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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With Support From UJA-Federation Of New York, The Mayor’s Office For People With Disabilities Launches The First Cyber Security Training For People With Disabilities

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10/23/2018

This program uses a train-to-place model that will prepare individuals with disabilities to secure employment in the cyber security industry. It delivers an industry-recognized Cisco certification program through a curriculum adapted to suit various...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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McNulty Foundation & Aspen Institute Announce the 2018 McNulty Prize Winner, Mehrdad Baghai and High Resolves

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11/01/2018

Baghai is being honored for creating High Resolves, which delivers learning experiences to inoculate students against hatred and galvanize them to take action in their communities. Co-founded with his wife Roya, High Resolves is bringing immersive,...

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John P. & Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation

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Bank of America, Water.org Expand Partnership to Bring Safe Water to India and Brazil

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11/02/2018

Water.org received a $3 million grant over three years from Bank of America to empower more than 250,000 people in southern India and Brazil with safe water and sanitation, accelerating positive change in their homes and communities.

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Leticia Peguero, Vice President of Programs

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11/27/2018

... current role as Executive Director of the Andrus Family Fund (AFF), she is at the forefront of the national ...

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18 Apr 2019

Impact Investing: Dipping Your Toes or Going All In- A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Experts predict that the impact investing market will be worth more than $300 billion by 2020. Impact investing – which seeks a specific environmental, social or governance return above and beyond a strictly financial return – can be a particularly...

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13 Jun 2019

The New Normal: How to Serve the Redefined Family - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

The definition of the American family has morphed alongside an explosion of diversity.

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08 Aug 2019

Family Philanthropy Through Multiple Vehicles - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, August 8, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

How can families with multi-faceted philanthropic efforts – those with multiple foundations or funds, who are also using impact investing and other creative strategies – develop governance systems and structures that accommodate this complexity?

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14 Nov 2019

New Trends: Research Findings from NCFP’s Second Family Philanthropy Study - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, November 14, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

What are new emerging issues facing philanthropic donors and families? How are families’ funding priorities, governance practices, and approaches to giving and decision-making evolving and changing?

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Co-Impact Announces Inaugural Grants Totaling $80 Million

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01/16/2019

... National Community Health Assistant Program : The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and Last Mile ...

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Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds, Inc.

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Gerstner Philanthropies Makes New $15 Million Commitment to Create the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute

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02/20/2019

New endeavor will advance blood-based biopsies and other technologies to speed cancer diagnosis and track patients’ response to therapies

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Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education

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02/20/2019

... through the National Center for Civic Innovation at the Fund for the City of New York. “The quality of the ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Health

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Announces Plans to Spend Down

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03/05/2019

The Edward W. Hazen Foundation in New York City has announced that it plans to spend down its assets over the next five years in support of education and youth organizing, with a focus on racial justice. Established in 1925, the foundation was an...

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