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Connecticut Seventh-Grader Wins SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite ® Essay Competition

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04/26/2019

... as economics and personal finance. InvestWrite builds on what students learn in The Stock Market Game to further explore practical ... and develop investment recommendations. Where they work in...

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Whiting Foundation Announces 2019 Literary Magazine Prizes

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07/18/2019

... nurture “the writers who tell us, through their art, what is important.” As well as acknowledging excellence, ... development grants to magazines with very small budgets, in recognition of the crucial role...

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$1 Million Gift Donated To The American College To Establish The Sy Sternberg And Fred Sievert Doctoral Fellowship

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02/25/2014

... advancing through the New York Life Doctoral Program in Financial and Retirement Planning at The American College. ... reaching retirement age every day, the need for literacy in planning for financial...

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The State of Philanthropy: How to Maximize Impact

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03/26/2014

... President Dr. Judith Rodin on the state of philanthropy in Huffington Post. When I took the job as the president of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2005, philanthropy was facing a kind of identity crisis, .....

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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Corinne H. Rieder honored by American Geriatrics Society with the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award

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05/20/2014

... of older Americans. Dr. Rieder has been instrumental in making grants and initiating programs that put geriatrics expertise to work in all health care settings by: advancing practice change and ... included...

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Morgan Stanley Picks Newark As One Of Its Healthy Cities Sites

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06/27/2014

... has a 40-plus-year commitment to children’s health, and we are proud to be taking another step forward with our partners in Newark. Morgan Stanley Healthy Newark is an exciting and ... good nutrition and safe...

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Laboratory Announces $50 Million Gift To Establish Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

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07/07/2014

... of molecular biology and one of the first institutions in the world to recognize the importance of quantitation in the life sciences. The Simons Center for Quantitative ... discoveries at Cold Spring Harbor...

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Lincoln Center Partnership To Train and Place Arts Teachers In NYC Schools

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07/07/2014

Lincoln Center Partnership To Train and Place Arts Teachers In NYC Schools An initiative supported by a $1.5 million ... placement of music, dance, theater and visual art teachers in up to 120 NYC public schools...

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Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship

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08/05/2014

... seminars advancing research around new and evolving issues in contemporary art, and also help support the relaunch of ... discussions around timely and urgent topics in contemporary art. “Major funding from...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Adds New Team Members in New York and San Francisco

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08/26/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Adds New Team Members in New York and San Francisco Rockefeller Philanthropy ... a special focus on global philanthropy will both be based in San Francisco. Nick Hodges joined the...

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At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities

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10/15/2014

... Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities Africa is in a unique position, although the issue of building ... economies is really a global challenge. Almost everywhere in the world, a small portion of...

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Citi is Giving Women the Tools to Shatter the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

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03/20/2015

... gap is irritatingly persistent across all income brackets in American cities. But as a Boston-based trading platform ... business world. A study by Quantopian found that companies in the Fortune 1000 run by...

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Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans

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03/26/2015

... that the VA currently spends approximately $136,000 in services for every homeless veteran – “nearly every ... homeless. Very little attention is paid toward prevention. We need a paradigm shift,” noted Castro...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... Dance Project NEFA launched the National Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities throughout the U.S. Since then, the program ... and creating a...

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Casey Family Programs Announces Winner of the 2015 Casey Excellence for Children Award

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05/21/2015

... event. The event brought together over 100 leaders in child welfare and wellbeing across a number of sectors. ... “The Center for Native American Youth has been a leader in advancing the well-being of some of...

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State Authority Wants $1.5 Billion for Renewable Energy Boost

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06/04/2015

... Authority Wants $1.5 Billion for Renewable Energy Boost In a document released late Monday, the New York State Energy ... renewable energy, so it means utility-scale projects that we ’re talking about....”...

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Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth

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08/05/2015

... youth and their families to share their stories in their own words and in their own way. “When my daughter first came out as ... by sharing our story through TRUTH, people will see that we ’re...

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Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors

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08/20/2015

... to contribute to it. One strategy they supported began in 2002, when Jeff Solomon, president of the Andrea and ... landscape and exploring best practices across the country, we set up a collaborative giving...

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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

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08/28/2015

... many people will tout the city’s recovery, few people in black working-class neighborhoods will be celebrating. ... and painful reminder of the inequities facing blacks in America and how far the nation still...

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