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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

The selected cities are Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle.

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

... Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research ...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

The Alfred P. Sloan and James L. Knight Foundations have announced a $3.4 million investment in the initiative.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... launched earlier this year as a capacity-building hub for local, emerging non profits. Through the Incubator ... were selected to take advantage of one year of free co- working space in BCF’s new headquarters...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase City officials ... $1 million dollars to provide skill-based job training for residents over the next two years. The investment is...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program

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08/04/2015

The Fellows were selected based on demonstrated leadership skills, as well as commitment to social issues and community development.

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Education

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... hailed as a success by some. The concept of SIBs is for private investors to lend money to governments for the funding of programs that, if successfully delivered, ...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... Young Women of Color “There’s a myth out there that for girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said ... 2014 after six years as NoVo’s Director of Initiatives for Girls and Women. “But everything is...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

... is a key component to building a stronger financial future for our community," Bill Tommins, Southern Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We're fortunate .....

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million

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09/29/2015

The grantees are Community Catalyst, The SCAN Foundation and ReFraming Aging.

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better understand what contributes to and impedes ... that a positive internal culture is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace What are the top five ... Ipsos MORI, revealed that there are five major issues for women in the workplace. . . Rockefeller Foundation Finds...

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W.T. Grant Foundation Launches Blog Series on Research Evidence and Federal Policy

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10/29/2015

... that a program or practice worked elsewhere useful for local implementation? Evidence at the Crossroads is a ... from federal initiatives that allocate public dollars for evidence-based social programs. In...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting as facilitators of change.

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Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues

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11/03/2015

... care. Supported by a grant from the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, the website is the first ...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

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11/05/2015

In a recent seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the enteric and diarrheal diseases program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed the issues impacting maternal and child health.

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Q & A with FJC: The ABCs Of Donor-Advised Funds

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11/12/2015

... countries. Glickman previously had 20 years experience working on Capitol Hill, serving as the top career official ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

The Atlantic Philanthropies, which will conclude its grant-making commitments next year, announced on Monday the capstone of its work on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia.

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Specialty Food Foundation Addresses Hunger With Social Entrepreneurship

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03/02/2016

... Food Foundation, a community of social entrepreneurs working to break the hunger cycle, is starting the search for the third annual class of grant recipients. ... on food recovery/innovative solutions to...

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