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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

... Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities In a collaboration between the City of Philadelphia, the ... the Better Bike Share Partnership awarded nearly $375,000 in grants to bike share programs...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Freedom Together Foundation

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... But for the residents of the Port Morris neighborhood in the South Bronx, returns from the program-related ... loan from the New York Pooled PRI Fund. Per Scholas will use the loan to finish building an Urban...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Works to Build a Better South Bronx

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07/10/2015

... improve pedestrian safety, and increase social interaction in neighborhoods saddled with some of the city’s heaviest ... diabetes, asthma and obesity. The project is deliberate in making an active lifestyle a...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

Energy company wants to drill natural-gas well using waterless method.

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... will continue to finance projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which ... heads its global grant, says limited rights to access and use of natural resources to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

Wallace Foundation Releases Reports on Successful Audience-Building Efforts

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08/14/2015

The case studies are the eighth and ninth in the 10-part Wallace Studies in Building Arts Audiences series.

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Arts

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Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code

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09/01/2015

... Girls to Code Young girls were told that they could use code to change the world, to find their voices and to ... Foundation president Rose Kirk and several other speakers in commending the young women for...

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of ... thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to live in more affordable apartments. The Greater...

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

Arts

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Sloan Foundation Announces 2016 Research Fellowships

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02/25/2016

... Research Fellowships The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City has announced the selection of a hundred and ... achievements identify them as rising stars and leaders in one of eight scientific and...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

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03/30/2016

... basket to highlight the role of nongovernmental groups in the nuclear-security field. . . Carnegie and MacArthur ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Public Policy

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology

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04/21/2016

... New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp held in Olin Library, there were no official presenters, while participants voted on workshop topics and met in collaborative sessions. The informal structure...

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Education

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JPB Foundation Measures Bike-Share Equity in the U.S.

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04/26/2016

JPB Foundation Measures Bike-Share Equity in the U.S. When it comes to bike equity in the U.S., the focus on measuring participation rates for ... low-income people and people of color are underrepresented...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

... James Simons and his wife, Marilyn, is expanding in the Flatiron District. The philanthropic organization has ... for the foundation declined to discuss how it plans to use the building and which programs will...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... scientists, Michael Jones-Correa and James A. McCann, in a report published for the Russell Sage Foundation. ...

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Latin American Director at Open Society Foundations Comments on Rio Olympics Human Rights Abuses

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07/19/2016

... situation unfolding ahead of the Summer Games next month in Rio de Janeiro is shaping up as a depressing replay, human ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/22/2016

... their transitions to independent research careers. Engaged in a broad range of areas, from HIV studies in Africa to the use of brain imaging as a tool in understanding...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights

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08/12/2016

... How Birds Soar to Great Heights Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with ...

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Science

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries

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10/20/2016

... Charitable Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries GivePower Foundation, a non-profit ... of America Charitable Foundation, totaling $1 million in grant funding in...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities

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10/25/2016

... Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities Nashville is among five ... vehicles initiative launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York and the Washington, D.C...

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