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Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... Sport& quot ; Atta-Mensah, a former public defender, recalls how she first got involved with CVH and learned about ... coalitions, and reviving movements. She acknowledged how difficult...

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PhilTalks

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Civic Engagement

Public Policy

Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... published release of a tax reform framework from leaders in Congress and the administration: “A fundamental question is how tax reform will affect our nation’s unsustainable ... our fiscal outlook. This...

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Economic Security

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... about what’s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But what is the “food movement?” I hear ... the extent to which these things are true (and I have, in eye-glazing, patience-trying detail), it...

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Food Systems

Boys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds

Release Date:

11/29/2017

... do the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. Beginning in 2014, the Milwaukee organization took part in a ... who are both skilled in their field and already know how...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Wallace Foundation

Deutsche Bank, Newman's Own, MetLife, Fortitude Fund, and FB Heron Foundation among list of Funders Supporting the Nonprofit Investing Directly in Poor Families

Release Date:

01/26/2018

... of Funders Supporting the Nonprofit Investing Directly in Poor Families It’s not often that a nonprofit touts how much it isn 039 ;t doing to help low-income Americans, but ... a small...

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Children, Youth and Families

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MetLife

Deutsche Bank (Corporate)

Fortitude Fund

Newman's Own Foundation

05 Feb 2018

Pathways to Effective State Funding Strategies - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, February 5, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... down and look at one state as a case study to understand how coordinating bodies, intermediaries, national and in -state funders are all operating from the lens of that one ... will hear key highlights of the...

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Tools & Strategies

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Newman's Own Foundation Reaches Milestone of $500 Million to Charity

Release Date:

02/01/2018

... of $500 million to charity since Newman 039 ;s Own started in 1982. The company is celebrating its 35 th anniversary, ... of Newman 039 ;s Own. & quot ;Paul would be...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Newman's Own Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announce 2018 Leadership in Government Fellows

Release Date:

03/05/2018

Open Society Foundations Announce 2018 Leadership in Government Fellows Developing policies to better protect ... careers and share insights with advocates and others about how to make policy change—at a time when...

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Civic Engagement

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Open Society Foundations

New Documentary Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Highlights the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley

Release Date:

03/14/2018

... and drama of the region’s evolution will be revealed in “Silicon Valley: The Untold Story,” a new Discovery ... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The documentary examines how Silicon Valley has managed to stay...

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Technology

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

New Online Tool Created With Support from OSF Helps Immigrants Make a Plan

Release Date:

04/04/2018

... detention or deportation. Make a Plan is available in English and Spanish at www.immi.org/ home/make_a_ plan. ... ready. Make a Plan covers who can take care of children, how to find detained family members,...

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

The Warhol Foundation Will Award Six Spring 2018 Curatorial Research Fellowships

Release Date:

07/19/2018

... grants up to $50,000 will support new scholarship in contemporary art, and curators are selected through a ... with urgent cultural issues including income inequality, how we represent resistance, and ...

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Arts

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

Release Date:

09/10/2018

... the fastest growing food sector. New research shows that in order for this next generation of farmers to thrive, there ... Barbara have published the first comprehensive analysis of how climate change could...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Zegar Family Foundation

The Ford Foundation Takes Another Stand On Census

Release Date:

10/19/2018

... explain the importance of the census data. The census is in trouble. Here’s why, and what you can do about it. The ... Constitution mandates that once every decade we tally how many people live in...

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Video

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Census 2020

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Ford Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Supported Art Exhibition "Programmed" On View at the Whitney

Release Date:

10/31/2018

... the Whitney Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 establishes connections between works ... back at predecessors of computational art and shows how the ideas addressed in...

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Arts

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

Release Date:

11/13/2018

... Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering Centering science instruction ... Teaching and Learning. “Our report provides guidance on how teaching can shift toward...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 32 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

Release Date:

04/23/2019

... significant time to research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences — work that will ... to the urgent issues of today. Among the project topics: how targeted ads interfere with...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative

Release Date:

07/08/2019

... been awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Modeling how humanistic and social science research is presented and ... of Interactive Scholarly Works (ISWs) is recognized in the academic publishing world as...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Understanding how antibiotic scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics ... Communications , provides a useful road map that shows...

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Health

Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Dr. Stephen Blacklow to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/01/2022

... by Dr. Blacklow’s team has advanced understanding of how signaling between different cells induces growth and changes in cell identity both in normal development and in...

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Appointments & Transitions

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28 May 2025

Solidarity in Action: Strategies for Power-Building in Anti-Immigrant Environments - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... we can learn from community-based groups that operate in this type of hostile environment. They have also built ... movements for the liberation of all. Join GCIR to learn how multi-issue groups working to...