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Arcus Foundation

Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award

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07/31/2015

Up to ten winners will be selected to receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque, and a $500 travel stipend to attend the awards reception.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... advancing social justice: “The arts quite simply enable us to be fully human. As a foundation committed to social justice, the creative spirit that gives us art and beauty cannot be disregarded or dismissed as...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

A new study shows that less than one percent of federal funding goes to risk research.

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... my generation. As female members of Generation X, many of us grew up being told that we could be anything. We could do ... The "glass ceiling" was being broken. This gave us an assumption that we had...

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

... to transform society. The J.M.K. Innovation Prize gave us an opportunity to find and fund those projects, priming ... But we’d never done anything quite like this. For us , the prize was an experiment in...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

The grants, financially supported by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Foundation Charitable Trust and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will be awarded directly to teachers for research-based initiatives.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied with their jobs, recent Commonwealth Fund survey findings show.

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Ford and MacArthur-Backed Survey Finds That Young Voters From Newer Immigrant Families Lean More Liberal

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09/09/2016

Young Hispanic and Asian-Americans who are immigrants or have an immigrant parent are more likely to be liberal in their views on politics and immigration than those with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Civic Engagement

Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation

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01/10/2017

... one of the first people Christy hired and she has served us brilliantly for more than six years, most recently as ... artistic legacy and philanthropic vision available to us during this transition period...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment to 500,000 Young People

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02/23/2017

Pathways launched in 2014 with a $50 million effort that helped more than 100,000 young people across 10 U.S. cities become career-ready through first jobs, internships, and leadership and entrepreneurship training.

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Workforce Development

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Citi Foundation

With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... the implementation of the plan. "What Katrina exposed for us is that we cannot just rely on manmade, engineered systems .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Statement on the Passing of David Rockefeller

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03/21/2017

... David Rockefeller, who served as model and inspiration to us , and the wider Rockefeller family. He embodied the values ... of the arts, and service to humanity. He taught us to leave the world a better place...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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04/26/2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowships, with awards totaling $7 million.

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Workforce Development

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

The ongoing debate over healthcare access and delivery underscores the fact that public health in the U.S. still has much room for improvement. Using big data, planners can optimize school-based health services and help students get healthcare they...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Aetna Foundation

New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York

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06/08/2017

New report details how American Health Care Act would increase costs for consumers, wipe out coverage gains, and destabilize New York’s individual market.

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United Hospital Fund

NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

In a letter published in the New York Times , Lorie Slutsky—who runs the New York Community Trust—emphasized the role of community foundations in the context of Jeff Bezos' request for ideas to guide his philanthropy.

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The New York Community Trust

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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

Most of their capital doesn’t wind up in grants, but in investments. Is the latter the key to maximum impact?

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

The United States spends far more on health care than other high-income countries, with spending levels that rose continuously over the past three decades, according to analysis by the Commonwealth Fund. Yet, the U.S. population has poorer health...

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