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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

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03/08/2017

Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...

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Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant

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12/21/2017

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded a grant of $100 million to the Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee (IRC) to develop evidence-based, early education interventions for children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Middle...

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Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database

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01/09/2018

Michigan State University, supported by nearly $1.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will create a unique online data hub that will change the way scholars and the public understand African slavery.

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New Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Tackles College Hunger

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01/22/2018

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and Temple University say that food insecurity among college students is forcing a burgeoning inequality in college completion rates.

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Ford and Markle Foundations Support National Alliance To Increase College Graduation Rates

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04/19/2018

Eleven large research institutions, including Michigan State University, have come together across state and conference lines to increase the rate at which students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds graduate from college.

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Darren Walker to Hamilton Graduates: Lead the Way Forward With Empathy, Courage, Compassion

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05/21/2018

In his address at Hamilton’s commencement, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker urged graduates to embrace history – good and bad – and lead the way forward with empathy, courage, and compassion.

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App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund

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06/12/2018

A smartphone app designed to improve care for people living with HIV has increased users’ consistency in doctor visits and improved their health outcomes, a new study has found.

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Research for Eye Implant

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07/09/2018

Researchers at Caltech have developed an implantable pressure sensor that can reside in the human eye for years at a time while wirelessly sending data about the eye’s health to the patient or medical professionals. The implant could make it easier...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $18 Million to Expand Health Equity Fellows

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08/08/2018

The George Washington University Health Workforce Institute at the Milken Institute School of Public Health has announced an $18 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to expand and operate the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program through...

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New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

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11/13/2018

Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Current approaches to science in many classrooms do not reflect this...

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Bloomberg Commits $1.8 Billion to Johns Hopkins for Financial Aid

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11/19/2018

The largest-ever gift to an academic institution in America will enable Johns Hopkins to permanently commit to a need-blind admissions policy and ensure unparalleled educational opportunities for the next generation of global leaders.

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John A. Hartford Foundation Awards $5.2 Million for Dementia, Senior Care

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12/11/2018

The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling more than $5.2 million in support of evidence-based approaches to better care for older adults who have dementia, need hospital care, experience elder mistreatment, or...

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$100 Million Commitment From Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Supports Western New York's Parks & Trails

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05/03/2019

Now that the Buffalo Waterfront is finally starting to see some real improvements, it’s time for LaSalle Park to be added to the momentum.

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Bloomberg Launches Beyond Carbon Campaign

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06/10/2019

Bloomberg Philanthropies founder Michael R. Bloomberg has announced the launch of a $500 million campaign to address climate change and put the United States on track toward a 100 percent clean energy economy.

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Open Society University Network Launches to Transform Higher Education

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01/23/2020

George Soros announced today that he is creating a new university network to better prepare students for current and future global challenges.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

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02/14/2020

The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture is one of four universities that will share a $4 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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12 Feb 2020

FCCP Census Operations Series Part 9: Monitoring the Count in Real Time Part II - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In this installation of the Census operations webinar series, speakers will continue to discuss how organizations can monitor the progress of the count in real time, to guide resource and outreach targeting, messaging and strategy modifications, and...

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University of New Haven Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Education for Incarcerated Students

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04/15/2021

A collaboration with the Yale Prison Education Initiative to create a degree-granting program for incarcerated students in Connecticut

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Assessment Released on SeaChange Capital Partners' The New York Pooled PRI Fund

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06/03/2021

In 2014, SeaChange established The New York Pooled PRI Fund to connect New York City foundations

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13 Apr 2022

Seizing the Moment: Managing Risks and Closing Gaps in NYS’s Health Insurance Safety Net

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1:00pm to 2:30pm

Join us for a discussion on the significant number of New Yorkers who are uninsured in spite of coverage efforts and the possible strategic approaches to help diminish the coverage gap.

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