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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

... would receive a new humanitarian award, created in memory of the Armenian genocide, has selected these four as ... even noticed them,” said Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Berman to be Honored, Give Commencement Address at Quinnipiac U.

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05/20/2016

... a nurse, and a passionate champion for improving the care of older adults, will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Quinnipiac University at the school's ... deliver a Commencement...

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Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center

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06/22/2016

Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center Construction soon ... ongoing for months,” Donald Lassere, president and CEO of the Ali Center, said in an interview on June 8, two days .....

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Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors

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11/08/2016

Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors (Hartsdale, NY— November 8, 2016 ) The ... Community Foundation is proud to announce the election of addition of Bradford J...

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Report Highlights 20 Urban Resilience Strategies In The Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Resilient Cities Network

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01/25/2017

... While cities committed to building resilience are actively working to boost their capacity to survive, adapt to, and ... HTML or 23 pages, PDF ), identifies four major areas of opportunity — water management,...

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Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors

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04/12/2017

Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors Tony Haile, CEO of startup Scroll.com and founding CEO of Chartbeat, today ...

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Media Development Investment Fund

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Communications/Media

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Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize

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04/14/2017

... weeks from today. The Prize is an exciting initiative of The J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. ... innovation. The Prize will provide up to three years of support at $50,000 per year, as...

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

... for Justice Fund — to be announced Monday at the Museum of Modern Art, where Ms. Gund is president emerita — will start with $100 million of the proceeds from the Lichtenstein (which was sold to the ... has...

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Justice Reform

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

... Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) board of directors today elected new officers and welcomed five new ... board meeting. Reverend Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of Deaconess Foundation in St...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/29/2017

... Settings Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But ... their careers or support their children without the help of others. Meanwhile, a mother...

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Simons Foundation Releases The Eternal Sky, Part 2: The Hunt for Inflation

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10/05/2017

... hope to uncover what happened during the tiniest fraction of a second following the birth of the universe. Their search could lend further support to ... origin theories. A new short film, the second...

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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

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11/02/2017

... she writes are affectionate comedies, humanizing stories of friendship and love. Her first fully produced play, ... Bioh, 34, grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the youngest ...

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Courtney Bryan Joins JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region

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12/12/2017

... as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region Global Philanthropy invests $250 million ... distinguished career in the nonprofit sector and the field of criminal justice reform,...

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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation ... policy advocate, has joined the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “Maya has dedicated her career to the fields...

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Animal Welfare

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved the crystal structure of the activated kappa opioid receptor bound to a...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Donates $1.5 Million for Disaster Relief

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01/30/2018

Carnegie Corporation of New York Donates $1.5 Million for Disaster Relief Months after a series of three catastrophic hurricanes hit Houston, Miami, and ... to the ongoing recovery efforts, Carnegie Corporation...

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Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development

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02/01/2018

... That waiting-room questionnaire has become a standard part of pediatric checkups at Nassau County’s community health centers, thanks to the efforts of an Astoria, NY-based nonprofit called Docs for Tots. .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2018 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/15/2018

... The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowships, ... mark them as among the...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2018 Leadership in Government Fellows

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03/05/2018

... communities. Pushing to boost the civic participation of people of color and women in local communities. Fortifying the ability of state and local governments to enforce civil rights laws. ...

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