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UH Launches First U.S. Digital Humanities Research Center for Latina/o Studies with Funding from Mellon Foundation

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08/15/2017

... Gautherau, the inaugural postdoctoral fellow, will work on several digital humanities projects involving work by ... is funded through a $167,700 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources and...

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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding On a recent afternoon, Charlene Davis sat in a dimly lit room across from the holding cells on the lower level of Bronx Criminal Court. A phone on...

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New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump's DACA Decision

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08/31/2017

... the protesters came together for a mass march to insist on dignity and justice for immigrant communities. Advocates on both sides of the issue are bracing for the possibility ...

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What Business Can Learn From Buddhism

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10/02/2017

... The fourth largest religion in the world has been focused on attaining a higher meaning and following the path to ...

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New Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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02/21/2018

... get out, to find guidance and success in order to cut down on the rate of repeat offenders. LUCK Inc. is an ...

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Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism

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02/23/2018

Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to ... respond to racism... Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Perry Cammack as the Program Director of Peacebuilding

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01/29/2019

... Previously, Mr. Cammack worked for more than a decade on Middle East diplomatic, security, democracy, and economic ... as an advisor to then-Senators Joseph Biden and John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Nishka Chandrasoma as Vice President and General Counsel

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04/04/2019

... retired after serving with distinction for 23 years, working in various roles on the legal team. Chandrasoma joined the Ford Foundation in ...

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Ingrid Rasmussen Joins Unbound Philanthropy as Chief Operating Officer

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06/05/2019

... to invest in leaders and organizations in the US and UK working to build a vibrant, welcoming society and just ...

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To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?”

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01/27/2016

... from a chapter entitled “So What? Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize” in the book “What It’s Worth: ... funding and wisdom-sharing silos, and we believe in working in partnership with other institutions across .....

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22 Oct 2012

Accelerating the Upstate Economy: A Series on Entrepreneurship in our Region

Monday, October 22, 2012 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Teleconference

... Development New York Designed for All interested funders . Accelerating the Upstate Economy: A Series on Entrepreneurship in our Region ...

New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds

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07/06/2014

... and general counsel of the Ford Foundation, will be on the supporting organization's board. Ford's pledge to the .....

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

... Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding initiatives on Kickstarter and other social media sites, what the ... develop more capacity in gaining access to capital. Funders and investors should keep the...

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New York Community Trust Launches 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Competition

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03/05/2015

... New York Community Trust, one of the region’s leading funders of nonprofits. “Our Excellence Awards program ...

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NYCT Seeks Applicants for the Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program

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03/12/2015

... available now at http://npexcellence.fcny.org and are due on May 1, 2015; application clinics, which help applicants ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Was Key Supporter of Zika Study

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09/15/2016

The Zika study, published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports , describes a mouse model developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis that shows that the Zika virus is detectable in tears.

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

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10/11/2016

... take risks to prove new models, so that larger funders with less risk tolerance would feel able to adopt them, too. We focused most of our funding on seeding new organizations and pilots in the Northeast, ...