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Dyson Foundation Contributes to Longform Nonfiction Work

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11/10/2016

I have good news for all of the journalism purists out there. Funders continue to see the value of deep and transformative investigative work in an age of 140 characters.

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New York Women's Foundation President Ana Oliveira Encourages Funders to Support Riskier Causes

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11/03/2016

Since 2006, under Ana Oliveira’s leadership, the grant-making of what is billed as the largest women’s fund in the country increased from $1.7 million to $6 million to help women and girls in poverty across New York City.

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A Look at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment

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11/28/2016

... well as the darkest strains of human nature. Its earliest grants went to oppose totalitarian regimes in the communist ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Choses Lincoln Center to Manage its NYC Cultural Innovation Fund

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12/02/2016

... and arts experts to review proposals and recommend grants ... Rockefeller Foundation Choses Lincoln Center to ...

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Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Supports Artists As Catalysts For Social Change

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02/08/2017

The primary driver behind the Rubin Foundation's grant—the idea that artists should be catalysts for social change—is gaining more currency across the arts philanthropy field, much to the detriment of evergreen institutions like the Met.

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Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families

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02/14/2017

Worldreader plans to launch Read to Kids Jordan in late 2017. The program will be made possible through a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), with additional support from Jordanian social and education entities.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

In February 2017, ASAPbio received a $1 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop a new service to aggregate life sciences preprints and promote their visibility and innovative reuse.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio

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04/25/2017

... governance remains a long term process, the portfolio of grants was significant in advancing democratic practice ...

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Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"

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06/05/2017

... Generally speaking, foundations want to know what their grants are accomplishing, or whether they should be putting ...

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New York Invests $69M in Upgrades for Local Water Systems

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... and Albany County. The money will go out in the form of grants and zero-interest or low-interest loans. . . New York ...

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OSF Explores Using Blockchain Technology to Help Migrants

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01/26/2018

OSF awarded a $100,000 grant to the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University, which is exploring using blockchain and other new technologies to record rights violations and atrocities.

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Novo Foundation's Push For Bottom-Up Power

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06/26/2018

... past six or seven years—it reported $123.8 million in grants in a recent year—allowing the foundation to place ... to the latest news: NoVo recently announced $34 million in grants to 19 groups doing social...

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Obituary: Rachel Cowan, Former Nathan Cummings Foundation Official

Release Date:

09/07/2018

... life of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, which provided grants to encourage new approaches in spirituality, social ...

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Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation To Help Support Expansion of the Empire State Trail Initiative

Release Date:

09/18/2018

The grant will be used to enhance the trail with gateways, signage, kiosks, bike racks and other amenities that will make it a world-class destination. The grant will also be used to help complete the Shoreline Trail and add trail amenities from...

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Bank of America : Expands Neighborhood Builders Nonprofit Leadership Development Program in 74 Cities

Release Date:

11/09/2018

... serves, including the bank's Student Leaders(R), Anchor Grants , and employee giving and volunteering programs.... .....

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Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Racial Justice and Managing Director of Housing & Homelessness

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01/15/2019

... announced the appointment of two new members of its Grants and Mission Investing team: Susan Shah joins ... in our mission to build up our neighborhoods.” The Grants and Mission Investing team at Trinity...

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Spelman College Receives Funding from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Help Fuel the Field of Black Women Economists

Release Date:

08/29/2019

The Department of Economics at Spelman College will develop curriculum and programming to address the scarcity of Black women Ph.D.s in economics. thanks to funding from a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.

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A Perfect Time For Fundamentals

Release Date:

02/07/2018

As we head into the second semester of PNY Core, we invite you to engage with your peers and a faculty of seasoned experts to strengthen your philanthropy core!

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Compensating for Your Philanthropic Blind Spots

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01/09/2014

Bessemer Trust's Caroline Woodruff talks about a recent gathering where her colleagues discussed how to balance data-driven and intuitive approaches — the “head” and the “heart” — when it comes to philanthropy.

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Three Ways Funders Delude Themselves About Equity

Release Date:

04/26/2017

Kris Putnam-Walkerly, global philanthropy advisor, writes "Funders, for the most part, want to do the right thing and operate with the best of intentions. But within those good intentions, funders too often suffer from what I call 'delusional...

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