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Carl F. Nathan Joins Rita Allen Foundation Board of Directors

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02/06/2023

... Advisory Committee since 2006, helping to support a new generation of leaders in discovery science. “Carl is a ... Making progress toward this goal requires building new knowledge and collaborations across...

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02 Apr 2014

Grantee Executive Transitions – When and How to Engage as Funders

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8:45am to 11:00am

Foundations give grants to organizations. But let’s be real: leadership matters.

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Vic De Luca Will Retire as President of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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03/16/2015

... a respected and effective grantmaker that has influenced philanthropy and been a key supporter of social change work ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

One of Europe’s largest foundations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation agreed to donate $150 million to a joint research, education and public policy program with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that is intended to promote the ideal of...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

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10/03/2017

... Just two weeks ago, another foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors—working in partnership with ...

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Schott Foundation CEO John H. Jackson Named by EBONY Magazine One Of 100 Inspiring Leaders

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11/13/2017

... a Community Crusader for his work as a strategic leader in philanthropy and a staunch advocate for public school ... to providing student-centered healthy living and learning supports for children and families...

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Newman’s Own Saved from Major Tax Hit

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02/12/2018

... ruin, they said. "Newman’s Own Foundation is a leader in philanthropy and business in Connecticut," said the senators. .....

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Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All

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04/05/2018

... Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All How can philanthropy be a vanguard in confronting the life-and-death ... like the World Bank. As we’ve reported before, Hilton supports WASH groups working in...

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Women on the Front Lines of ACA Implementation

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03/28/2014

... for women’s health advocacy in those regions. Lastly, philanthropy must make deeper investments in local and state ... disproportionately affecting women. For this to happen, philanthropy must work to...

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... What we can strive for, in essence, is more inclusive philanthropy . Many foundations exhibit reluctance to ... programs. It can be a most surprisingly effective form of philanthropy . We sometimes get “trapped...

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ASPCA Names Helene Gordon Senior Director of Licensing & Retail Development

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08/01/2012

... Jim Henson Company, where she was responsible for securing new business in the United States and Canada. She then held ... she moved over to the licensee side where she secured new properties for Happy Kids,...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

... the media. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts and culture that reflects the ... Bomb, a website dedicated to sustaining the visual arts in New Orleans. These writers,...

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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

... term, the results suggest Nmu as a potential candidate for new therapies to address sleep disorders. A paper describing the new screening process and its results appears in the February ...

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United Hospital Fund's Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017

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06/23/2016

... to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker.” About the United Hospital Fund : United ... to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker. An independent, nonprofit...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

... funders have spent many millions of dollars supporting new teacher preparation programs and trying to strengthen existing ones. A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) ...

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Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database

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01/09/2018

... grant from the Mellon Foundation. ''Enslaved' brings new digital tools and analytical approaches to the study of ... the public to learn about individuals' lives and to draw new , broad...

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ASPCA Opens Permanent, State-of-the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center

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05/10/2018

... are victims of cruelty or neglect. The ASPCA opened this new permanent facility following the success of a four-year behavioral rehabilitation pilot program in New Jersey, where more than 300 dogs suffering...

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Commonwealth Funded Study Shows Impacts State-based Individual Mandates Would Have in 2019

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07/25/2018

... mandates. Massachusetts implemented its mandate in 2006. New Jersey, Vermont, and the District of Columbia passed ... state-based individual mandates were implemented in 2019, New Mexico would see the largest...

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