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For Women, the World Remains an Extremely Dangerous Place

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03/11/2015

... and girls in Iraq and Syria. The Boko Haram terrorist group kidnaps hundreds of school girls in Nigeria. Rape and ... South, East, or West. In the 20 years that I’ve been working on efforts to prosecute sexual...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Four Members to Board of Directors

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05/24/2017

... was appointed president of the company’s Broadcasting Group . In the following years she held various additional ... Brooklyn Museum, Packer Collegiate, Center for Arts Education , Scripps Institution of...

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Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

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04/16/2020

... economies to suffer in the shadows.” Deeply concerned about grave threats to democratic accountability and ...

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12 Mar 2026

Right-Sized Reporting: Gathering Essential Financial Information Without Overburdening Grantees

Thursday, March 12, 2026 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... interactive virtual session, participants will explore how funders can support nonprofit grantees by assessing their own ... financial reports may not match—and what that means for funders Evaluate the purpose...

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Mark Zuckerman Named New President of The Century Foundation

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02/24/2015

... has accrued diverse and valuable experience, from working as a community organizer helping low-income residents ... training. Prior to that, as Staff Director of the House Education and Labor Committee,...

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Phillip Brian Harper Named New Program Director for Higher Learning At The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/27/2020

... will shape and direct giving on issues surrounding higher education , particularly in the humanities and liberal arts. ... and a keen understanding of how humanities education and scholarship can address the...

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Schott Foundation Announces Michael S. Wotorson as Director of the National Opportunity to Learn Network

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10/13/2021

... to Learn Network The Schott Foundation for Public Education is pleased to announce Michael S. Wotorson is ... that build a more racially just and equitable public education system for all children. “We are...

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UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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01/28/2021

... effort to tell a more detailed and complete story about policing and race, and make the findings and insights ... provide alternative narratives to police statistics about crime, and that the materials of our...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases Report: The Road Ahead for Smart Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in India

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05/20/2021

... vaccination rollout, and the threat of emerging variants. ABOUT THE REPORT Over one year since the pandemic began, we ... have dynamically evolved. We have understood a great deal about the virus: who is most...

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United Hospital Fund Co-Designs Digital Prototype to Facilitate Patient-Provider Interactions

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06/23/2021

... New York City primary care practice that serves a diverse group of patients with high prevalence of diabetes. The ... share this information with their doctor, especially about the issues that matter most to...

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Teresa C. Younger, President and CEO of Ms. Foundation for Women on Creating a Culture of Equity

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03/14/2018

... stifle women’s career advancement and growth. Women earn about 80 cents for every dollar a white man makes, while ... making what they’re making, [then] they can do something about it.” Women should also take...

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What DAFs are Learning from the Community Development Sector

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08/05/2019

... like Deutsche Bank’s Community Development Finance Group and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), I ... like the Calvert Impact Note, the Contact Fund or LISC NYC ’s Inclusive Creative Economy Fund...

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Why Helping Pets Helps People

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12/05/2013

... has seen a strong upswing, support from institutional funders hasn’t kept pace. The latest edition of the Giving ... for physical and emotional healing. Much has been written about the general health benefits...

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12 Jul 2017

Exclusive Preview & Discussion with Stanley Nelson: Tell Them We Are Rising

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

We invite you to join Media Impact Funders , Philanthropy New York, Grantmakers in Education , and the Association of Black Foundation Executives ... experiences Philanthropy’s role in supporting higher ...

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Nonprofits Join Forces to Give Black Men a Brighter Future

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12/08/2013

... leaders interviewed in a Chronicle of Philanthropy article about philanthropic projects supporting young ...

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... The Smithsonian American Art Museum is leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort ... online database that could spur research and scholarship about American art. One of the first...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helps Speed Up Development of Minigrids in Africa

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03/28/2017

... Tanzania, Rwanda and Sierra Leone are beginning to think about how the off-grid energy provided by minigrids could ...

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To Sell Themselves to Donors, Nonprofits Are Turning to the Pros

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... Cancer Alliance offered a treasure trove of information about colorectal screening, colon cancer research and other ... did not do was provide a concise explanation of what the group ’s aims were and, perhaps...

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