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19 Jun 2019

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... to all the same rules as legislative lobbying Private foundations may fund 501(c)(4) organizations The answers ... funding] of 501c4s is another important tool for private foundations to consider How to get...

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Larry Bloom named Vice President, Global Operations and Finance at EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

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03/20/2019

Larry Bloom joined EMpower – The Emerging Markets Foundation in February 2019 as Vice President, Global Operations and Finance of EMpower.

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Rockefeller Foundation Partners with African Development Bank to Open Doors for Nigerian Women in ICT

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04/04/2019

The Bank, together with its partners - The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook announced the holding of the class in March on International Women's Day, as part of a concerted push to close the gender gap in the representation of women in...

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Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Launches with Seed Funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations

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09/13/2021

... Launches with Seed Funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations Lagos, Nigeria (September 13, 2021) —Today the ... of raising $15 million from additional partners and other foundations . "Today's...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation grant supports civic engagement at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

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06/22/2023

Building further on its extensive commitment to creating thriving hubs of civic life open to all, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) will make a $26 million grant to the Obama Foundation for the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center.

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Program Associate of Education (United Way of New York City)

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08/16/2016

... with individuals, nonprofits, government, businesses, foundations , faith-based organizations, and community ... funders, and the general public about UWNYC’s Education grantmaking priorities, guidelines, and...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... degrees in jeopardy. With donations from a growing list of foundations , corporations and individuals, the University has ...

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Mellon Foundation

Nonprofit Community Health Clinics Receive $1.9 Million in Grants From Hartford Foundation

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05/27/2013

The grants were awarded using funds from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Social Innovation Fund.

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Prudential, Goldman Sachs and Brooklyn Community Foundation Among Funders Spurring Urban Revival in Brooklyn

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03/10/2015

Impact investing in underserved communities is trending in the philanthropic sector.

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Open Society Foundations Public Health Division Director Writes Op-Ed on Health Financing in the Post-Aid Era

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07/22/2016

Open Society Foundations Public Health Division Director Writes Op-Ed on ... classified as poor by the World Bank... Open Society Foundations Public Health Division Director Writes Op-Ed on ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Scientists Probing Underground Depths Of Earth’s Carbon Cycle

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11/10/2016

Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle–a process that ultimately influences global climate change.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Says Political Behavior Is Predicted by Past Political Behavior

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11/30/2016

Currently, older people are a reliable conservative voting bloc, but that does not mean they will be into the future.

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Civic Engagement

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The Century Foundation

Brian Byrd, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation, Chats About the Intersection of Health & Justice

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09/19/2016

Brian Byrd, program officer at the NY State Health Foundation, explains how he chose the panel for the PNY Program, "Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic."

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Deploys $100,000 for ‘Immediate Response’ Grants to Immigrant Nonprofits

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02/07/2017

These Immediate Response grants support Brooklyn’s immigrant-led organizations that are defending the liberties of immigrant individuals and families as well as promoting the safety and strength of our communities.

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Avila Kilmurray, Global Fund for Community Foundations, Talks About Philanthropy Outside North America

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06/08/2015

Avila Kilmurray, Global Fund for Community Foundations , Talks About Philanthropy Outside North America ... across Russia. Avila Kilmurray, Global Fund for Community Foundations , Talks About Philanthropy Outside...

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Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/27/2017

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced the 17 junior physician scientists receiving the 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Teams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico

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10/18/2017

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation are teaming up with theater impresario Lin-Manuel Miranda to donate $300,000 to Puerto Rico relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

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Disaster Relief

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky

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11/20/2017

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Granddaughter of NASA "Hidden Figure," Duchess Harris, shares story of Miriam Mann

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03/06/2018

Professor Duchess Harris, Chair of the American Studies department at Macalester College and alumna of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF), shares the story of her grandmother Miriam Mann, one of NASA's earliest "hidden figures."

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Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

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07/09/2019

Astrophysicists are trying to zoom in on massive clusters of galaxies which are difficult to see.

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