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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces $2.2 Million in Emergency Funding for Ebola Response Efforts

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11/18/2014

Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces $2.2 Million in Emergency Funding for Ebola Response Efforts The Leona ... humanitarian organizations' Ebola relief efforts in West Africa. By investing in...

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

... seven-foundation partnership created to support nonprofits working to collect feedback and be more effective today ... has awarded 13 organizations a total of $5.26-million in 14 separate grants of one to...

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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 Discovery Fund in such a way that it would make a profit for investors while ... in...

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid in New York City, told The Huffington Post. But that ... is starting to ease up for trafficking survivors, thanks in large part to Mogulescu’s efforts to...

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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

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08/28/2015

... many people will tout the city’s recovery, few people in black working -class neighborhoods will be celebrating. After all, ... and painful reminder of the inequities facing blacks in America...

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Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest ... ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.” In January 1994, a suburban St. Louis high...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years

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11/05/2015

... U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years The U.S. electric sector is expected to hit ... carbon emissions have fallen below 2 billion metric tons in two decades. Following the...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged In 2016, the NoVo Foundation, a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’s son and daughter- in -law, ... and children, and will serve...

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

... new legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations in the next two weeks, the Associated Press reports. The ... and refugees, populations the Hungarian government is working to keep out of the country...

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

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03/17/2017

... competition to address recurring flood problems in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. The ... awarded grants of up to $1 million to a dozen groups working to provide innovative solutions — from...

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... the quality of centralized legal information websites in every state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. ... and usability of these legal information websites. LSC, working closely with its consulting partner...

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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia In Illinois, a mother’s heartache over her daughter’s ... across the nation to address racial injustices. And in California, a Muslim civic...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

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09/13/2017

... today, we think of the MacDowell Colony, in the woods of New Hampshire, and of the Skowhegan School, in Maine. There’s the Rome Prize fellowship, at the ... British conceptual artist, started the Artist...

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

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05/10/2018

... sexual violence, particularly girls and women of color and in marginalized communities. But the group 's visibility has skyrocketed in the last six months, since shortly after revelations...

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Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications

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12/04/2018

... today publishes a Request for Concepts, the initial step in a streamlined process for organizations to apply for Arcus ... Arcus’ strategy and grantmaking decisions and result in more focused, long-term...

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When the Biomedical Industry Can’t Prioritize Diseases, Private Money Can Save Lives

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09/19/2014

... Money Can Save Lives Nearly two million people in the U.S. suffer from type 1 diabetes (T1D), and millions ... groups have a unique opportunity to spur advances in treating diseases that affect millions but...

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Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)

... validated assessment measure was developed by TCC Group to help foundations make sense of their institutional ... tools exist that measure nonprofit capacity (including TCC Group 's Core Capacity Assessment Tool, or CCAT, which has ... interest and informed by our rich history of work in foundation strategy, governance, operations, and capacity .....

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Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

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06/24/2014

... The Wallace Foundation is investing $30 million in a significant five-year effort to help 14 urban school ... principals to raise the quality of teaching and learning in schools. “This overlooked supervisor...

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Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies At 83

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07/08/2014

... who founded The Tow Foundation with her husband, Leonard, in 1988, died Monday at age 83, following a 14-year struggle ... as a director and active executive of both companies. In a statement from the Tow...

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

... commitment to the most creative scholarship and teaching in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “We ... with innovative analyses of the most important big data in the study of the humanities.” “...