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Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence

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09/28/2017

Atlantic Theater Company has announced that Amy Staats will be the 2017–2018 playwright-in-residence as well as the lineup for its upcoming Amplified Reading Series and two new commissions. The Tow Foundation supports the playwright-in-residence...

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Arts

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Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... the future of preserving broadcast television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vanderbilt ... News Preservation for the Next Generation” workshop, with the goal of developing new...

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Communications/Media

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Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... opportunity to support their local community. Colleagues working together to accomplish a shared goal can have a ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

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09/29/2017

... Antonio, TX. he program will connect 144 immigrant artists with mentors and strengthen immigrant artist communities in ... model for replication. NYFA, a national arts organization with a myriad of online...

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'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs

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10/02/2017

Just before Ramadan in late spring 2017, the full might of the Turkish state descended on a foreign aid agency in the border town of Gaziantep. Six different government agencies, among them the migration directorate and the gendarmerie, had come to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

... Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city’s water and sewer systems, quipped in an interview with the Daily News. . . De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... the atmosphere, General Motors is ending its relationship with gasoline and diesel. This morning, the American automotive giant announced that it is working toward an all-electric, zero-emissions future. That...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

... of its residents. NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to ...

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The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation

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01/05/2018

Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and human & disability rights advocate Judy Heumann investigates how our grantmakers are including a disability lens in their areas of work.

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Disabilities

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah Rajiv Shah took ... his work leading the more than 100-year-old foundation with more than $4.2 billion in assets, the role of ... at the Bill & Melinda...

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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

William Bell, PhD, president and CEO of Casey Family Programs, a Seattle organization that aids foster parents, shares how important is to make sure families have access to prevention services and are not isolated.

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Atlantic Philanthropies Releases Two New Books on Advocacy and Government Partnerships

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03/16/2018

... releases new books exploring how philanthropy can partner with government and support advocacy campaigns. In Government ... and the Republic of Ireland to provide young children with prevention and early...

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

... Homes built in Grandmont-Rosedale will be in partnership with the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation. Develop ... to build housing that is affordable and dynamic is aligned with the city’s goal to...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Habitat for Humanity Worcester County Build

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10/26/2018

... affordable housing. Habitat families work in partnership with Habitat Worcester, volunteers and the local community to ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Grants for Arts Writing

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12/03/2018

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced today the twenty-one recipients of its 2018 Arts Writers Grants. They will receive a total of $725,000. Administered by the New York–based nonprofit Creative Capital, the grants support...

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Westchester Community Foundation Awards Grant to Green Business Partnership

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12/14/2018

Using a comprehensive, customized digital toolkit and a propriety emissions tool, membership in the Green Business Partnership is available to any organization that leases or owns commercial or industrial space in New York.

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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Economic Security

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Larry Bloom named Vice President, Global Operations and Finance at EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

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03/20/2019

Larry Bloom joined EMpower – The Emerging Markets Foundation in February 2019 as Vice President, Global Operations and Finance of EMpower.

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EMPower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire

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05/12/2019

... the intellectual leadership to implement it, always working with trusted partners in the field,” remarked Mariët ...

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Century Foundation Releases 9 Steps to Revitalize America's Manufactring Communities

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05/08/2019

For the past year, experts and stakeholders across the country have worked together to develop a new industrial policy that explicitly ties the goals of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base to that of revitalizing economically vulnerable...

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