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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

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03/08/2017

Erica Dunbar, who grew up in Philadelphia, is one of the more than 700 Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United States, but who are also contributing groundbreaking scholarship and rising to the highest...

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Abraham Paulous Challenges the Immigration to Incarceration Pipeline

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04/06/2017

Abraham Paulous, Executive Director of Families for Freedom, tracks the concepts of “citizenship,” “documentation,” and the changing face of immigration throughout American history. He shares his own experience as an Eritrean refugee and his time at...

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NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform

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05/11/2017

From an inherently biased bail process to uniforms designed to fit men’s larger frames, the corrections system fails to consider that when it comes to incarceration, gender matters, write Ana Oliveira, president and CEO of The New York Women’s...

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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

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06/22/2017

Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, speaks on how fake news propagates and spreads and the strategies media should employ to tackle misinformation.

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‘Bro’ Adams Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

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07/11/2017

William D. “Bro” Adams, former president of Colby College and past chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow.

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Giving Back: 4 Ways Your Company Can Do Good

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08/31/2017

As more millenials enter the work force and look for socially responsible corporations, here are four methods to practice corporate social responsibility while growing and reaching new customers.

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Carnegie Sponsors 9/11 Commemoration "Tribute in Light"

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09/07/2017

2017 marks the first year in which the 9/11 "Tribute in Light" will be presented by a sponsor, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who along with helping install the display, has also aided the 9/11 memorial by starting a program that allows small...

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New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity

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10/13/2017

Melinda Fine introduces the article, "The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity" written with co-authors Jared Raynor, Jessica Mowles, and Deepti Sood from TCC Group.

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The New York Women’s Foundation Appeared On NBC’s Show, “Give“

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10/30/2017

The New York Women’s Foundation was featured on NBC’s show, “Give“ on Saturday, October 28th. NBC’s Give provides an inside look at the world of philanthropy and highlights the work of small charities that are making a big impact

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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

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11/02/2017

... She ended up with “Happiness and Joe.” It’s a rom- com . Ms. Bioh, a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated ...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Has Officially Launched The Fellowship Initiative

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11/07/2017

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has officially launched The Fellowship Initiative (TFI) in Dallas, TX, in collaboration with Big Thought, a local Dallas organization that has been working with young people in the city for many years.

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The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to Electricity in India

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11/15/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation aims to connect these underserved citizens to sustainable energy sources through their Smart Power For Rural Development initiative.

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Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor

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01/08/2018

A recent report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, found that Bay Area sheriffs were four to 16 times more likely to book African Americans and Latinos into...

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Video Shows How a New State Prison Policy Hurts Nonprofits Like Books Through Bars in New York

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01/10/2018

A new state policy would keep nonprofits like NYC Books Through Bars from sending books to inmates in New York.

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New Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Tackles College Hunger

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01/22/2018

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and Temple University say that food insecurity among college students is forcing a burgeoning inequality in college completion rates.

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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Trinity Joins Brief Filed in Support of Dreamers

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01/29/2018

Trinity joined 86 other religious organizations that recently filed an amicus curiae brief supporting an injunction against overturning DACA “on the basis of faith and morality, that these children and young adults must be protected.”

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Trinity Church a Parish in the City of New York

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Immigration

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JPMorgan Chase to Increase Its Philanthropic Investments to $1.75 Billion Over Five Years

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01/31/2018

In a recent announcement, the company said it intends to increase its philanthropic investments by 40 percent, to $1.75 billion over five years. That averages out to an additional $100 million per year.

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