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Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans

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Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children National Dance Institute was ... and dance and music in particular, have a unique power to engage all children and motivate them toward...

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

... and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative The Citi Foundation ... Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will receive support to adopt leading practices in community...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

... a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug ... tumor cells. The grant will support a two-pronged approach to addressing cancer drug...

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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

... Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library ... archives and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA provides...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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

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07/09/2015

... today that JPMorgan Chase has invested $1 million dollars to provide skill-based job training for residents over the ... Chase. "Jersey City is a community we are especially to be a part of...."...

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

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08/10/2015

... Bond An experiment using a Social Impact Bond (SIB) to reduce the rate at which juvenile offenders return to jail—so-called “recidivism”—at the troubled Rikers ... by some. The concept of SIBs is for private...

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Justice Reform

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Goldman Sachs

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

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09/02/2015

... fine. Here at NoVo, we recognize that there is a huge need to focus on support for girls of color. ” Historically, ... work in the Global South, which the foundation plans to continue, Shifman stressed......

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Research into what issues women face in the workplace finds equal pay, harassment, career opportunities,children, and work-life balance remain as concerns.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting .....

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues

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11/03/2015

Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues Dying in America, a multimedia ... culminate in a feature length documentary that will seek to change the way Americans confront...

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

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11/05/2015

In a recent seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the enteric and diarrheal diseases program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed the issues impacting maternal and child health.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia The Atlantic Philanthropies, which will ... of its work on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study...

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

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02/17/2016

... (OST) Cost Calculator is an online tool designed to help OST providers and others estimate the costs of ... and bases its estimates on the most detailed study to date on the costs of high-quality programs. Now...

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Children, Youth and Families

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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 the ... and focused on food recovery/innovative solutions to hunger can...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Food Systems

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits annually. Millions of that funding have gone to dozens of local institutions, including the University of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project

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04/15/2016

... neighborhoods with the culmination of the project expected to be on Oct. 4, when all of the sites will be turned on ...

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Arts

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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

... Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care Nearly all doctors believe it’s important to talk with patients about the care they want in their final ... that provide little help, and often...

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

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04/15/2016

American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home William Dupont, San ... (UTSA), is part of a top-tier team of preservationists working on a historic restoration project...

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