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Open Society Foundations Funds the Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico

Release Date:

03/02/2018

Open Society Foundations Funds the Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto ... Mayor Exchange and backed by funding from the Open Society Foundations , the group includes mainland mayors with ... the federal power...

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What Foundations Can Do to Help Primary Care Succeed

Release Date:

03/13/2012

... Development Corporation, talk about three important roles foundations can play in the success of primary care. What Foundations Can Do to Help Primary Care Succeed ...

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Hartford Foundation Awards $1.35 Million to Gerontological Society of America

Release Date:

02/10/2013

The three-year grant will establish the Hartford/GSA National Center on Gerontological Social Work Excellence.

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Red Cross gives $1.25M grant to Brooklyn Community Foundation

Release Date:

05/30/2013

The grant from the American Red Cross in Greater New York will support long-term recovery efforts for people affected by Superstorm Sandy.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $4.5 Million for Conservation Scholars Program

Release Date:

09/20/2013

The University of Washington, Northern Arizona University and the University of Florida will each receive $1.5 million to provide undergraduates with opportunities to participate in mentored research activities in conservation biology and other...

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Ford Foundation Awards $6 Million to Strengthen International Human Rights Movement

Release Date:

09/20/2013

The grants were to seven leading human rights organizations operating in many countries and international forums.

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Human Services

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Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director Robert Garris Heads to Schwarzman Scholars

Release Date:

08/27/2014

Robert Garris, former managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation, is the new Global Director of Admissions at Schwarzman Scholars.

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Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

Release Date:

10/24/2014

... African Americans who can't find jobs is double that. Foundations have taken any number of approaches to the .....

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Fifth Grader Recognized as Financial Expert, Thanks to SIFMA Foundation

Release Date:

03/13/2015

A Long Island fifth-grader placed third in the nation in the InvestWrite Competition, sponsored by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Foundation and McGraw Hill Financial.

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

Release Date:

10/16/2015

The Overdeck Family Foundation supported research showing a marked increase in math achievement for children using a program called Bedtime Math. The research appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of Science.

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

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia.

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Jerome Foundation Helps Woman Filmmaker Get to Tribeca 2016

Release Date:

04/15/2016

Deb Shoval's film, "AWOL," about a young woman in search of direction in a post-industrial town with little economic opportunity, will premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on April 15.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Brings Hope to Ancient Athens Neighborhood

Release Date:

07/06/2016

Hopes for improvement lie with the nearby Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, named after a Greek shipping magnate who died in 1996.

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Confronts Feedback That Highlights 'My Own Obliviousness'

Release Date:

09/14/2016

"I am a black, gay man, so some might assume that I’m especially sensitive to these issues and dynamics. But during the past year I have had to confront my own ignorance and power, and come to terms with the ways I was inadvertently fueling...

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Model Partnerships for Impact: The Cricket Island Foundation and Communities United

Release Date:

10/12/2016

The focus on learning, rather than achieving pre-determined metrics, catalyzed both organizations to have deeper impact in communities.

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Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors

Release Date:

11/08/2016

Mr. Tito, a resident of Edgemont, is a program manager with the Communities and Local Government Division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which works to promote clean energy solutions in New York.

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16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... will also preview NCFP’s two new tools for community foundations : a self-assessment of your readiness to offer ...

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Former Arcus Foundation E.D. Named Tenement Museum President

Release Date:

06/15/2017

Kevin Jennings, a history teacher turned nonprofit leader who is also a former Obama official, has been named the next president of the Tenement Museum in Manhattan.