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JPB Foundation Vice President Donna Lawrence to Become President/CEO of I Have A Dream Foundation

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06/18/2014

... from an early age through high school with a guarantee of financial support for post-secondary education for those who ... and expand it's model and also leverage it's human and financial capital to...

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Seven Things Foundations Can Do to Shape Public Debate in the NYC Election Season

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02/21/2012

By Laura Wolff, Senior Program Officer, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation The upcoming New York City campaign season is the first one in more than a decade—and only the second since 1973—where there is no incumbent candidate for...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

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10/15/2015

Brooklyn Community Foundation announces grants to four expert restorative justice providers to launch full-time, in-school programs in four Brooklyn public schools.

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Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, CEO of Edwin Gould Foundation, Announced in New Class of Leaders for Pahara-Aspen Fellowship

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01/22/2020

he Pahara Institute, together with the Aspen Institute, announced today the Spring 2020 cohort of the highly selective Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship. These 24 individuals join the Pahara community of leaders, which is designed to support and...

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Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century Foundation

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07/22/2020

While we have known for decades that the United States is failing in its commitment to provide equal educational opportunity, there is far less consensus and understanding of how to reverse these trends.

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Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected as a 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow

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10/07/2021

... pathways to economic mobility. ascend.aspeninstitute. org . Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected ...

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Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

Funding Meets Growing Undergraduate Interest in Social Justice by Supporting Projects that Teach Humanities Skills and Methods Necessary to Transformational Change

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Catalytic Investment to Eliminate Two Neglected Tropical Diseases in East Africa

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04/26/2022

... on Helmsley and its programs, visit helmsleytrust. org . About the END Fund The END Fund is a private ...

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Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations Announce New $5M Initiative Designed to Advance Latinx Art in Museums

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02/13/2023

Institutions Receive Critical Funding to Create and Support Curatorial Positions with Expertise in Latinx Art

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Arts

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Mellon Announces Funding for Higher Education in Prisons

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06/06/2023

The Mellon Foundation today announced over $5 million in grantmaking to seven colleges, universities, and more as part of the Foundation’s commitment to expanding opportunities and increasing resources for higher education in carceral environments.

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Justice Reform

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United Hospital Fund Literacy Project, funded by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Makes Lasting Difference at East Harlem Health Center

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09/27/2023

At Settlement Health center in East Harlem, the proof of a post-pandemic literacy drive is on the bookshelves.

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When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

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03/15/2012

By Simon Greer, President and CEO, Nathan Cummings Foundation (This post originally appeared on the Nathan Cummings Foundation website.) What does Jeremy Lin have to do with the future of philanthropy? When LINsanity comes to...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $6 Million for Legal Aid to Detained Immigrants, Climate Resilience, and More

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12/08/2017

The New York Community Trust Gives $6 Million for Legal Aid to Detained Immigrants, Climate Resilience, and More The New York Community Trust, the region's community foundation, recently made 44 grants totaling $6 million to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

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06/10/2021

Show Your Support by Signing On to the Letter, List of POC-Led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation Provides $1.5 Million in Emergency Funding to Puerto Rico

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09/27/2022

In partnership with local nonprofit and community organizations, the foundation is supporting philanthropic and advocacy efforts for those impacted by the storm.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Disaster Relief

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Virtual Employee Engagement through Virtual Conversational Leadership

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01/20/2023

Conversational leadership offers a fundamental rethinking, and more importantly, an opening to the possibility of a “re-feeling” of daily work life in remote, in-person, and hybrid work models.

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