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Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

... Atlantic Philanthropies With our U.S. offices located in New York City, Hurricane Sandy hit close to home. It ... York-based grantees, our staff and our office building. In the aftermath of the storm, Atlantic...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Blue Meridian Partners Profiled in New York Times

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10/16/2017

... Clark Foundation’s Blue Meridian Partners Profiled in New York Times Stanley Druckenmiller, the hedge fund ... Likewise, Connie Ballmer, a co-founder of the Ballmer Group and the wife of Steven A. Ballmer, the...

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IFC, Mastercard Foundation Extend Financial Inclusion for Millions in Africa

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05/16/2018

... Foundation Extend Financial Inclusion for Millions in Africa IFC, a member of the World Bank Group , together with the Mastercard Foundation, today ... joint Partnership for Financial Inclusion since 2012...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Matthew Krieger Elected Board Chair of Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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03/29/2019

... Donna Esposito, who concluded her service as Board Chair in December, and remains on the Board as Trustee. “I’m ... Chair,” said Mr. Krieger. “Since joining the Board in 2008, it has been my pleasure to serve...

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David Gracia Named New Executive Director at the Musicians Foundation

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04/21/2023

... Foundation David Gracia joins as new Executive Director in January 2023 to succeed B.C. Vermeersch, who led the ... modernization and growth. Mr. Vermeersch will be working with Mr. Gracia for several weeks to...

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Doris Duke Foundation Welcomes Brooke Jones to Board of Trustees

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09/06/2023

... of investments for the philanthropic foundation’s in -house investment team and in several leadership roles. Before that, she led portfolio ... Jones also serves on the advisory board for the Baupost ...

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Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations, Including the Ford Foundation, Commit Unprecendented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations

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09/24/2020

... “America’s Cultural Treasures.” Together, the funders will grant more than $156 million to support Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous arts organizations in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has...

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Announcing the Salesforce.org Social Impact Report 2019

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09/23/2019

... collect data and evidence, to engage our stakeholders in our findings, and to use what we learn to do even better. ... of the world. We’ve evolved a lot since we were founded in 1999, and we’re excited to...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Twenty-One European Cities to Join New Digital Innovation Program

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01/13/2020

... today the 21 European capital cities that will participate in a new initiative aimed at accelerating digital innovation ... of digital transformation, driving 21 st Century ways of working across their...

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Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far

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05/09/2017

... Community Foundation launched our Immigrant Rights Fund in late 2016 to defend and protect the rights of immigrant communities in the face of exclusionary and unjust policies under the new ... related topics...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Public Voices Fellowship

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02/12/2016

... that diversifies the voices and quality of ideas featured in mainstream media. The Ms. Foundation Public Voices ... Foundation grantees with resources, skills, and access, in order to ensure their ideas shape...

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Gender Justice

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Andrew W. Mellon Supports Fellowship Program Diversifying the Intellectual Leadership of Scholarly Publishing

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06/29/2017

... and Robert Harington have written about gender inequities in scholarly publishing. In other sectors that colleagues and I have studied in depth, including art museums nationally, cultural ...

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What's Interesting About the Partnership Between Rockefeller and Chan Zuckerberg

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04/10/2018

... the first foundation bearing the family name, he did so in the autumn of his long life. A century later, when Mark ... Priscilla Chan began their philanthropy, they were only in their late 20s. Despite these...

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Open Society Foundations to End Operations in Turkey

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11/27/2018

Open Society Foundations to End Operations in Turkey The Open Society Foundations is closing its offices in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused ... in the country, which has...

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Open Society Foundations Accepting Applications for Soros Justice Fellowships

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10/23/2019

... on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the United States by challenging the overreliance on ... levels. Projects may range from litigation to public education to coalition building to...

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Making NY Fairer for Black Families: New York Community Trust grants back school, health, and housing reforms

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11/06/2019

... reduce these long-standing inequities are: Building Wealth in Brooklyn Intergenerational wealth is the single largest ... causes than white women. “Income, wealth, and education do not explain the difference...

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University of Buffalo Receives $3 Million Mellon Grant in Support of Indigenous Studies

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01/13/2020

University of Buffalo Receives $3 Million Mellon Grant in Support of Indigenous Studies The University at Buffalo ... $3.174 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a new department of...

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Gift from The Atlantic Philanthropies Launches Cornell Tech’s Public Interest Tech

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06/10/2020

... at developing the tools, systems, datasets, research and education needed to address significant public sector ... with non-profits and other socially-minded organizations. In Studio , a core part of the...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation promotes Aaron Merki to role of Chief Program Officer

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09/27/2021

... chief program officer. Mr. Merki has led the program team in distributing approximately $130 million in annual grants, all focused on improving the lives of ... to four core focus areas—Housing, Health, Jobs,...

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