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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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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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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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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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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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16 Feb 2022

Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... for movement work. Who Should Attend? All interested funders in grantmaking roles. What to expect: presentation ... Eve Stotland (Moderator), Senior Program Officer of Education and Human Justice, The New York...

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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

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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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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... and there’s a lot of conventional wisdom out there about the reasons why. A frequent scapegoat is the lack of arts education in the schools, which implies that if people were ... 40s and 50s, and therefore DID...

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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

... as a key way to ensure that quality keeps up with access. About three years into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature education policy achievement, the education department and New York...

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Surdna Foundation President Don Chen Named Co-Chair of Presidents' Council on Impact Investing

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11/30/2020

... The Presidents' Council is a philanthropic leadership group facilitated by the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance with ... the future of impact investing. I've had the pleasure of working with Don over...

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Philanthropy Takes Fore as Bloomberg Exits N.Y. Mayoralty

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04/30/2013

... The newspaper interviewed Mr. Bloomberg and collaborators about his and his family foundation’s brand of largely ... has included hundreds of millions of dollars for higher education , the arts, and...

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Atlantic Philanthropies to Award €15 Million to Address Child Poverty

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08/07/2013

... support children at risk of poverty within the mainstream education and child care systems. Atlantic Philanthropies, ... It is understood that Pobal, an agency that administers about €300 million in funding...

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Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic

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04/21/2016

... Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic The U.S. Education Secretary John King is frustrated by what he ... as the “ahistorical nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools. Speaking...

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NYSHealth Invests in Veterans' Health

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02/01/2017

... rather than at the VA. NYSHealth is committed to working with a broad set of partners to meet our common goal: ... that veterans have access to high-quality care and choices about where they get that care. In...

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