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Sharnita C. Johnson Has Been Named Arts Program Director at Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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12/12/2014

... and support communities engaged in creative placemaking in New Jersey. Dodge currently awards more than $3 million ... of African American History. Johnson will begin her new position on Jan. 20, 2015. She was...

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Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

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03/03/2015

... These policy and programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for Change, which provides ... boys and men of color, this past year represented a new , critical chapter in our work,...

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Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

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03/10/2015

... designed to help them invest for the future. According to new research released by Capital One and Burning Glass ... seeking advanced digital skills. Recipients of the new Capital One Fellowship will have full...

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06 May 2015

Executive Assistants Network - Tech Trends

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... staff . Technology is always evolving, whether it’s a new program or updated software— new becomes old fairly quickly. Come and learn from your ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers Insight on Employing Millennials

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05/08/2015

... This week, global professional services firm EY released new findings from a global survey about the work-life ... goes out on a limb, risking the potential of stigma, to a new day, where the manager initiates...

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new philanthropic efforts are aimed specifically at improving ... Foundation’s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers for Girls of...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights

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12/15/2015

... that will receive $100,000 collectively through its new Neighborhood Strength initiative. Grants range from ... first resident-led grantmaking program designed to build a new model that brings together...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

... foundations that built schools and libraries, developed new vaccines, revolutionized agriculture and advanced human ... good: Millions of people around the world have access to new tools and resources with...

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Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

... system not designed to meet their needs. For a new study, researchers interviewed 77 African-American ... they’re also child care consumers.” . . . The new paper, published in the Russell Sage Foundation...

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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

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01/06/2016

... may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the ... University engaged groups of influential students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread...

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Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology

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03/28/2016

... sounding board she never had through the university’s new Gloria Steinem Media Mentoring Program. The program ... the creative and complex ways information technology and new media are reshaping culture and...

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United Hospital Fund's Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017

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06/23/2016

... to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker.” About the United Hospital Fund : United ... to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker. An independent, nonprofit...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Names Meghan Jambor Interim Informed Communities Program Officer

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07/12/2017

... and collaborative news and information ecosystem in New Jersey. As Dodge’s Communications Manager, Jambor ... on our important work in local news and information in New Jersey,” said Chris Daggett, Dodge...

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Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power

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09/11/2017

... to gains at the federal level, these funders were focusing new attention and resources at the state and local level, ... both legal and common. This push has been helped along by new funders who've...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... Bard Prison Initiative. Now Bard College is launching a new satellite in another site that bucks tradition: the ... punchline is something about a captive audience.” The new microcollege is modeled on the...

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Report Shows Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States

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12/14/2017

... Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, ...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be ... source has been out of reach. The UW team developed a new system that eliminates all of...

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The Pfizer Foundation Announces $5 Million in Grants to Support Women and Families

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05/30/2018

... Women and Families The Pfizer Foundation announced today a new $5 million grant commitment to initiatives in low- and ... at the same time children are routinely vaccinated. These new grants build on The...

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