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Ford Foundation Selects Nicolette Naylor to Lead its Southern Africa Office

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10/28/2014

... Office The Ford Foundation announced the selection of Nicolette Naylor as head of its Southern Africa office, which is based in Johannesburg and serves South Africa and the Southern ...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

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02/25/2015

... Younger women may ignore or dismiss the earliest symptoms of an impending heart attack, such as pain and dizziness, and ... contribute to disproportionally high death rates of young women as compared to...

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Noyes Foundation Urges Donors to Make More Timely Allocations From Their Donor Advised Funds

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06/29/2015

... with donor advised funds, who are interested in social justice giving opportunities. Donor Advised Funds have become a popular and proven means of allocating dollars to charities. There is currently more .....

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Ella Baff will Join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer

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07/15/2015

... Officer Ella Baff, the executive and artistic director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, will be leaving the ... program officer for arts and cultural heritage starting in October. Ms. Baff has led Jacob’s...

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PHI Granted $50,000 Award to Commemorate Retirement of President of John A. Hartford Foundation

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07/15/2015

PHI Granted $50,000 Award to Commemorate Retirement of President of John A. Hartford Foundation PHI (Paraprofessional ... a $50,000 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation in honor of...

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Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes

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07/30/2015

Clark Foundation and Clark Sports Center Featured in NYTimes When Jim Palmer and his wife, Susan, married in ... here, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But the maid ...

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Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies

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10/08/2015

... Profiled for Spend Down Strategies To capture the magic of compounding.” For spritely Gisèle Huff, that is both ... Looking back over her 17 years as executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, she...

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Ellen Liu, Director of Women's Health, Ms. Foundation for Women, Selected as American Express NGen Fellow

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10/27/2015

Ellen Liu, Director of Women's Health, Ms. Foundation for Women, Selected as ... Independent Sector is delighted to announce the selection of the 2015 cohort of American Express NGen Fellows...

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In Memoriam: James McConnell Clark of Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

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11/04/2015

In Memoriam: James McConnell Clark of Edna McConnell Clark ... his home in Woods Hole, MA on October 24, 2015 at the age of 93. A son of W. Van Alan and Edna...

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Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

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11/16/2015

... Simons Foundation is delighted to announce the creation of the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and the appointment of David Spergel as its director. The next set of advances...

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Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Supports NeuroBioBank for Autism Research

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11/18/2015

... NeuroBioBank for Autism Research The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has signed an agreement to establish ... psychiatric research. Multiple brain tissue repositories in the NIH NBB network, located...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... Washington wonk career path. After earning a master’s in public policy from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was hired...

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What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality

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01/05/2016

What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality The urge to change the world is normally thwarted by a near-insurmountable barricade of obstacles: failure of...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy If ... Association on Monday are any guide, the ruling bloc of conservative justices appears ready to render a decision ... public...

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JP Morgan Chase Institute Report: Understanding Income Volatility & the Role of the Online Platform Economy

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02/19/2016

... Report: Understanding Income Volatility & the Role of the Online Platform Economy Diana Farrell, CEO, ... "Even as the U.S. economy continues to create thousands of jobs each month, there are...

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Susan L. Solomon, Co-Founder of New York Stem Cell Foundation, is on a Quest

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02/23/2016

Susan L. Solomon, Co-Founder of New York Stem Cell Foundation, is on a Quest One day last week, at a lab in New York City, a heart cell was beating in a petri dish ... It had been made from a...

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... Economic Disparities Today marks the 107th observance of International Women's Day. According to the U.S. Census ... men and women to close. The women garment workers in New York City who marched on this...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes They are four relatively obscure humanitarians: ... would receive a new humanitarian award, created in memory of the Armenian...

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Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology

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03/28/2016

... Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology When Monica Rozenfeld graduated from ... take.” Nine years and a few wrong turns later, she is working...

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Artstor President James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence

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05/02/2016

... James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced ... Mariët Westermann, president and vice president of the Foundation, respectively, on...

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