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Chris Cardona to Run Ford Foundation's Philanthropy Sector Portfolio

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03/09/2015

... sector in the U.S, and Chris Cardona will be the new program officer for this work. Chris will be responsible ...

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Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

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03/10/2015

... designed to help them invest for the future. According to new research released by Capital One and Burning Glass ... seeking advanced digital skills. Recipients of the new Capital One Fellowship will have full...

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06 May 2015

Executive Assistants Network - Tech Trends

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... staff . Technology is always evolving, whether it’s a new program or updated software— new becomes old fairly quickly. Come and learn from your ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers Insight on Employing Millennials

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05/08/2015

... This week, global professional services firm EY released new findings from a global survey about the work-life ... goes out on a limb, risking the potential of stigma, to a new day, where the manager initiates...

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new philanthropic efforts are aimed specifically at improving ... Foundation’s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers for Girls of...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights

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12/15/2015

... that will receive $100,000 collectively through its new Neighborhood Strength initiative. Grants range from ... first resident-led grantmaking program designed to build a new model that brings together...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

... foundations that built schools and libraries, developed new vaccines, revolutionized agriculture and advanced human ... good: Millions of people around the world have access to new tools and resources with...

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Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

... system not designed to meet their needs. For a new study, researchers interviewed 77 African-American ... they’re also child care consumers.” . . . The new paper, published in the Russell Sage Foundation...

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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

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01/06/2016

... may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the ... University engaged groups of influential students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

... the media. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts and culture that reflects the ... Bomb, a website dedicated to sustaining the visual arts in New Orleans. These writers,...

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Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

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02/17/2016

... technology. The latest grants were awarded to the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute in support ... for technologists in the public and nonprofit sectors; the New Venture Fund's Media...

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

... term, the results suggest Nmu as a potential candidate for new therapies to address sleep disorders. A paper describing the new screening process and its results appears in the February ...

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Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline

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02/02/2017

... Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries will not grant new financing for greenfield thermal coal mining and new coal-fired plant construction . Additionally, the bank ...

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Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

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02/13/2017

... tax policies that encourage giving could be curtailed and new limits on our political activities could be implemented. ... That reality hasn’t changed. But we must seek new avenues to continue our work,...

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PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017

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03/03/2017

... Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? Name A New Kind of Funder Action Meeting PhilTV This Week: March 3, ...

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Phil TV This Week April 14

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04/14/2017

... Countries Funded by the Educational Foundation of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Names Meghan Jambor Interim Informed Communities Program Officer

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07/12/2017

... and collaborative news and information ecosystem in New Jersey. As Dodge’s Communications Manager, Jambor ... on our important work in local news and information in New Jersey,” said Chris Daggett, Dodge...

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and collaboration between ... and movement organizations Seeding experiments in building new structures and systems to propel us...

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