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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

The Alfred P. Sloan and James L. Knight Foundations have announced a $3.4 million investment in the initiative.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... were selected to take advantage of one year of free co- working space in BCF’s new headquarters at 1000 Dean Street, as well as a ...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... Skills at Work" initiative, which has been implemented in about a dozen cities, including New York City, Chicago and .....

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... test to see which innovative ideas can make a dent in intractable social problems.... What We Learned from ...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... Executive Director Pamela Shifman, who assumed that role in 2014 after six years as NoVo’s Director of Initiatives ... girls. Until recently, that focus was directed toward work in the Global South, which the...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

... Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We're fortunate enough to work with several .....

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million

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09/29/2015

... of older adults and aging-expert professionals are heard in the continuing debates over health care delivery; to ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace What are the top five challenges you face ... MORI, revealed that there are five major issues for women in the workplace. . . Rockefeller...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... especially from people already doing the work well. In a wide-ranging interview with WMUK's Earlene McMichael, .....

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools

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11/03/2015

... Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools In its three years of offering college scholarships and other services to students in the Buffalo Public Schools...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

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11/05/2015

... the majority of whom are children born into poverty. In a recent Conversations in Global Health seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally ... issues impacting maternal and child health and her work ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... of California at San Francisco and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland, both longtime Atlantic grantees. . . ...

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Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

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02/17/2016

... the lead researcher on that study—to reflect changes in both the general cost of living nationally and the ...

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Specialty Food Foundation Addresses Hunger With Social Entrepreneurship

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03/02/2016

... Food Foundation, a community of social entrepreneurs working to break the hunger cycle, is starting the search for ... of grant recipients. Eligible organizations rooted in social entrepreneurship and focused...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... Foundation. Today, the foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with more than $2 billion in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits annually...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project

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04/15/2016

... Philanthropies. The project, called Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light , will include nine sites across 10 ... media artist Erwin Redl, whose art has been on display in Austria, New York and Charlotte.....

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Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care

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04/15/2016

... important to talk with patients about the care they want in their final days. But most physicians work in systems that provide little help, and often they don’t ... people fear spending their last days...

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American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home

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04/15/2016

... (UTSA), is part of a top-tier team of preservationists working on a historic restoration project in Cuba. Dupont and his team will aid in the construction of a new archival storage facility...

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Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders

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04/25/2016

Darren Walker’s moves to steer the country’s second-largest grant maker toward a focus on inequality and inclusion won him a spot on Time magazine's 2016 list of the world’s most influential people.

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