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Brooklyn Community Foundation Presents Third Installment of 'Stories of Brooklyn Insights'

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06/04/2014

... Third Installment of ‘Stories of Brooklyn Insights’ In the third installment of Stories of Brooklyn Insights, ... Community Foundation shares the voices of ARTs East New York, a storefront...

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It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

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06/09/2014

It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, president ... Fund, says that the United States needs "creative new solutions to protect the avalanche of...

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NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

... Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular ... as shutting out low-income children. Ms. Fariña, in an interview this week covering a...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies ... share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year,...

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Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards

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06/30/2014

Tart, Goodwin Win Carnegie Writing Awards Under a program funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Donna Tartt won an award for fiction and Doris ... Tartt won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ...

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Pennsylvania College Consortium Created With $800,000 From Mellon Foundation

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07/03/2014

... From Mellon Foundation Ten liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania will use an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new consortium designed to help them save money and...

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The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

... Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie Corporation of New York, wrote an essay encouraging other industrialists to give away their fortunes. In the "Gospel of Wealth," published in...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... Among the stipulations of the foundation's grant: a significant number of graduates from the city's revamped ... the principals will be evaluated using the city’s new online database, which can match...

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More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups

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07/25/2014

... writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an op-ed the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The four -- ...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal Phillip A . Griffiths, Professor of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the...

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Virginia "Ginnie" Sloane, President Emeritus of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, Dies at 91

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08/27/2014

... and civic leader Virginia Sloane died on August 24 after a lengthy illness. She was 91. Sloane was elected President of the Heckscher Foundation for Children in 1986 and was appointed President Emeritus...

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Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P.

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09/03/2014

... only eight months after ending his final term as mayor of New York. For years, Mr. Bloomberg had insisted that he ... like gun control, immigration and public health But in recent months, Mr. Bloomberg — who...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the ... discontent over how they signed up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent...

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PNY Members Fund Youth Slam Poetry

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09/24/2014

... translate into other spheres of life, helps explain why a group of funders are putting up some $10 million over the ... seven years to support nonprofits that work with teenagers in writing and performance...

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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

... plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, foundations and businesses to help ... goals of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in...

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Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts

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10/02/2014

... Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts Most arts organizations these days are seeking ... On Wednesday, the Wallace Foundation will announce a $40 million effort to help...

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NYCT Supports South Bronx Culture Trail

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10/03/2014

... believed to be the first Puerto Rican-owned music store in the city are among the sites set to get markers that will ... organizers said. Money for the project comes from the New York Community Trust, which...

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Carnegie and MasterCard Foundation Headline African Higher Education Summit

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10/06/2014

... Summit The African Higher Education Summit to be held in March 2015 in Senegal will provide an energising space for ... in the sector and talk about the future. “This is a...

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change "Easy" is a word rarely used to describe street protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New York City, which attracted some...

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