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... to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley The non-profit group Scenic Hudson has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from ...

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With Support from Rockefeller, '100K Opportunities Initiative' Achieves Hiring Goal Two Years Ahead of Schedule

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09/01/2016

... goal of creating one million opportunities by 2021. The group will continue to capture and share new recruiting and ...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Shares New Report on Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Outcomes For Youth

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12/16/2016

... participated in a three-year program that includes grants, group learning sessions, individualized coaching, performance ...

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Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative

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01/24/2017

These days, to be a conservation funder is to be a climate change funder. At least that ought to be the case. Because how do you conserve a wetland that’s drying up? How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat?

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... report containing recommendations from the university’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (SMR), which was ...

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Fast Company Names James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies 'The Most Creative Person of 2017'

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05/16/2017

... at Bloomberg Philanthropies, where he oversees a group of programs dedicated to helping city leaders around ...

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20 Jun 2017

Charter and District Schools Sharing Innovations: How Philanthropy Can Help

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... school culture. Philanthropy New York’s Education Working Group , in collaboration with The Philanthropy Roundtable , ... with any questions. Co-Sponsored by Education Working Group...

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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation has been implementing The Whitman Institute’s Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and receiving great reviews.

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of companies have changed their ...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty eradication who contributed to a recent ...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

As the police have gotten more aggressive about collecting genetic material, they've quietly amassed a giant database of DNA profiles without any laws and little oversight over how they can use it.

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Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ...

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New York Foundation’s Latest Installment of Video Series “In Their Own Words” Features Founder and Executive Director of Young Advocates for Fair Education

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02/09/2018

... for Fair Education (YAFFED) YAFFED is an advocacy group committed to improving educational curricula within ...

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Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

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03/25/2021

... each other,” McHarris says. There is also no comparable group looking at connecting this kind of work across the ... she says. With the Ford Foundation funding as a start, the group intends to raise US$100...

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Citi Community Development and The Poses Family Foundation Support New Initiative Aimed at Building the Financial Security of People with Disabilities

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01/29/2018

... Compounding these challenges, more than 46 percent of working -age households with disabilities are either unbanked ... financial decisions almost daily, navigating insurance, health services, benefits,...

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Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, Named President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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05/17/2018

... solely dedicated to improving the education of health professionals. Dr. Humphrey also has been elected a ... us deliver on the Foundation’s mission to improve the health of the public.” Dr. Humphrey, a...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Grants Dedicated to the Well-being of Native Communities

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07/09/2020

... is part of DDCF’s ongoing commitment to supporting the health , vibrancy and overall well-being of Native communities ... and Native-led efforts focused on community development, health , social services and...

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Judy Belk Appointed President and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation

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03/12/2014

... played a historic role in courageously funding in public health areas that had drawn little or no philanthropic ... the process, the Foundation has expanded the definition of health and wellness for all...