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The Rockefeller Foundation

With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... gave Ploughshares a one-year $500,000 grant specifically for its Iran program, with the goal “advancing just and ...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... of Mathematics and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of ... over the past 50 years, chairs the Science Initiative Group (SIG), an international team of...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

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11/20/2014

... a network on nonprofits and advocacy groups have been working overtime to keep immigration reform on the political ... published a piece on the role of big money in the fight for immigration reform. Here'...

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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Immigration

NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... career ladder compared to those of men. The 2015 IWISE Working Group Meeting was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke ...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields

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03/23/2015

... Now an academic panel has developed a seven-point plan for achieving gender equity in so-called STEM fields: ... 28-member Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group hopes...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York Foundations that decided to pool their ... last fall isn't likely to generate much cash. But...

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Community Development

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Workforce Development

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SeaChange Capital Partners

Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

... every July 4th. Join us by exploring an inspiring group of well known naturalized citizens from all walks of ... read the latest news from our grantees and other partners working to foster citizenship and...

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... A major public-health organization and a local government group are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a ... (APHA) and the National Association of Counties (NACo) are working with Aetna’s...

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Health

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

... to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley The non-profit group Scenic Hudson has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from the Doris Duke Charitable ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... grant will assist the university in establishing a center for racial justice, hiring faculty experts in the field, ... report containing recommendations from the university’s Working Group on...

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Social Justice

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Fast Company Names James Anderson of Bloomberg Philanthropies 'The Most Creative Person of 2017'

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05/16/2017

... at Bloomberg Philanthropies, where he oversees a group of programs dedicated to helping city leaders around ... [cities and mayors] can serve as distribution networks for ideas that work.” Among Anderson’s...

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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation has been implementing The Whitman Institute’s Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and receiving great reviews.

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of companies have changed their ...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... has proven to provide impactful innovations for poverty alleviation ," says Abby Maxman, President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... it demanded less familiar tools and skills: sitting still for several hours of PowerPoint presentations, trying to ... thorniest policy issues in the food system. The diverse group came from 12 states, one U.S...

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Food Systems

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review ... tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the program, launched last year with...

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As Deaths Mount, Scrutiny of NYPD Response to ‘Emotionally Disturbed Persons’

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09/27/2017

... person” (EDP) calls, the slow pace of implementation for new NYPD crisis intervention training, and the tragic ... force and stressed their support for the proposed mayoral working ...

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