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New Mellon Fellowship Program Explores Cultural Preservation through Long-Term Conservation of Navajo Textiles

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08/04/2017

... The Heard Museum has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a fellowship ... of Navajo textiles while potentially gaining new insights into conservation techniques. The...

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Social Justice

Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

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08/30/2017

... learning about this tech and be ramped and ready to start working as soon as they graduate,” said Will Nicholas, ... senior policy manager at Tesla, who joined officials from Farmingdale and state lawmakers at...

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Workforce Development

Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

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08/30/2017

... harm. More than 200,000 children under 18 were married from 2000 to 2015 in the U.S., according to a report released ... by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit organization working to end gender-based...

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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

... that could lead to deportation and comes amid backlash from municipalities and states over President Donald Trump's ... immigrants. Vance announced that his office is also working on a policy, to be...

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Justice Reform

Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

... By 2026, the bill would dramatically reallocate funding from states that expanded Medicaid coverage for their ...

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... of preserving broadcast television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vanderbilt will host ...

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Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

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09/29/2017

... for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford Foundation to support the expansion of its ...

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

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General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... the American automotive giant announced that it is working toward an all-electric, zero-emissions future. That ... the age of electricity and promising to move away from gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles...

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

... places. Urban in density but rural in its disconnectedness from the rest of New York City, Brownsville is a high-poverty ... of its residents. NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with...

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President of Casey Family Programs on Family Access to Prevention Services to Address Opioid Crisis

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02/09/2018

... the city. Unfortunately, too many families have moved away from their extended family are living in communities where ...

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Education & Youth

Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Cities of Service Announces 10 Finalists for Inaugural Engaged Cities Award

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04/16/2018

... Cities Award, a new effort to elevate cities that are working creatively to tap the wisdom, talents, and energy of ... with residents, enabling cities around the world to learn from best practices and bring...

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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Grants for Arts Writing

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12/03/2018

... support critical writing about contemporary art and range from $15,000 to $50,000. “The foundation’s commitment to ...

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United Hospital Fund Names New Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer

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11/30/2020

... microaggressions, and restorative justice. Staff feedback from the workshops resulted in a DEI strategic plan to ... He holds a Bachelor of Science in human development from Binghamton University-SUNY and a...

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Weinberg Foundation grants emergency funding in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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03/02/2022

... thousands have already been forced to flee across borders into neighboring Poland, Hungary, Moldova, and other European ... to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) – The IRC is working to mobilize...

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Jewish Communities

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Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Genetic Link to Extinct Relative of Humans in Four Modern West African Populations

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02/13/2020

... hominin, an extinct relative of humans that branched off from the hominid evolutionary tree more than 600,000 years ... people with ancestral roots in Europe. The researchers , from the UCLA Samueli School of...

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When It Comes To Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In

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06/24/2014

... resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller ... Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, people from all walks of life want to...

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Foundation CEOs Need Candid Feedback to Succeed in Driving Change

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09/02/2014

... among the messages in a thoughtful, just-released letter from Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, ... preparing for years." "Easy as foundation work may look from some vantage points,...

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Ford Foundation Strives to Boost Medicaid Enrollment

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12/01/2014

... has announced a $1.5 million program-related investment from the Ford Foundation in support of its efforts to enroll ... low-income employees in Medicaid. The low-interest loan from the New York City-based...

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