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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Kevin Burke to Board of Trustees

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06/04/2012

The Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to ... Foundation’s mission to promote research and broad-based education in science, technology, economic performance and .....

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Awards $1 Million in Grants to Six Recipients

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04/04/2022

... Grants were distributed within the Program Areas of “ Education ,” “Jewish Life,” and “Urban Affairs.” The Education Program seeks to expand access to knowledge and ...

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25 Sep 2024

BBB® Forum on Corporate Responsibility XVII - Sustainable Communities: Managing Change, Innovating for Resilience

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

You are invited to attend a FREE webcast presented by the Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau® of Metropolitan New York, and ... Business Bureau Foundation of...

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Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023

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02/16/2023

... growing in America, with 1 in 10 adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression. Today, that number is 3 in 10 ... Falls region’s first partial hospitalization service for youth (Avera Health 2022), a...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Taking the Time to Learn in Transition: How the Ford Foundation Board Revamped the Traditional CEO Search

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11/13/2014

... Traditional CEO Search GEO recently convened a diverse group of foundation trustees and CEOs at the Ford Foundation in New ... This topic was quite fresh for Kofi Appenteng, chair of the CEO...

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JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment

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03/18/2015

... The New York-based investment bank said it had been working with the government to structure the Dementia ... research that would ultimately lead to the development of new drugs to treat the condition, which...

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning might have prevented the worst of the damage and chaos. One of the key concepts from ... such concepts work are quite...

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Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... were spoken for by other groups. But October was free of conflicts, came during the academic year, and serendipitously was the month of both the first and second LGBT Marches on Washington (1979 ...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... provide more savings options for 1.5 million people. Tens of millions of Americans work for companies that don't provide ... of 401(k) plans or joining a government-sponsored ...

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Supported by Rockefeller, $10 Million Water Window Challenge Announces Winners

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03/17/2017

... The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation , USAID , and the Swedish ... Agency (SIDA), has announced the twelve winners of the Water Window Challenge , an...

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... Evaluation Project. The project assessed the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the ... and usability of these legal information websites. LSC, working closely...

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Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

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09/18/2017

Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge Tony Turner ... to improve his eating habits to reverse a recent diagnosis of prediabetes, but, after several years in the foster care ... University. “...

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Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods

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11/13/2017

... and Increase Access To Healthy Foods With a new round of grants, the philanthropic arm of Aetna is getting out of doctors’ offices and into the ... measures only benefit those who have access...

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New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement

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05/10/2018

... and the movement she founded 12 years ago, with a goal of raising at least $2 million a year. Burke founded MeToo to support survivors of sexual violence, particularly girls and women of...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 2018 recipients of its Painters & Sculptors grants, which will provide 25 ... told...

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Rockefeller Foundation President Reflects On America's Most Pressing Challenge Jobs And Economic Opportunity

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10/16/2017

... in Michigan for the fourth annual Detroit Homecoming, an event that brings together people who grew up in the Detroit ... bankruptcy. It was great to be home, and to share some of my perspective on what the...

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Burke Foundation Co-Funds Inaugural Class of Safer Birth Cities: Tackling the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis

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09/26/2019

Burke Foundation Co-Funds Inaugural Class of Safer Birth Cities: Tackling the U.S. Maternal Mortality ... in a few short months.” Through the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, a community-based...

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Children, Youth and Families

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