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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities

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08/05/2013

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’ s partnership with Cornell University, the Georgia Institute ... University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEMs). The new type of partnership, initiated through the Foundation’...

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09 Oct 2012

Service for Impact Working Group Breakfast

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

9:00am to 10:30pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... “Reimagining Service and Cities of Service: A Funder’ s Guide to Driving Change through Volunteerism” attendees ... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities. We’ll also spend time...

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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

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03/10/2014

... for local philanthropy—the foundation is taking a new tack under the leadership of Cecilia Clarke, who began as ...

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The Wall Street Journal

Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

... the then-Senior Program Officers a giant cup filled with new red pens. It seemed to me at the time that the program ...

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Aging

Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a new neighborhood of residential towers and office buildings ... to the study expected to be released today by the city’ s Economic Development...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

... Arizona, Montana University System, and Purdue. The new national network, the Sloan Indigenous Graduate ...

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Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation

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07/07/2014

... Before joining the Dodge staff in 2001, she was the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’ s executive director, a position she held for 13 years. ...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... organizations to prepare future principals for the city' s schools. Among the stipulations of the foundation' s grant: a significant number of graduates from the city' s .....

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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

Release Date:

10/01/2014

Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration' s Brain Initiative The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, ... Simons...

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Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts

Release Date:

10/02/2014

... to build audiences through a variety of ways, including new programs as well as nontraditional venues. The ...

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Carnegie and MasterCard Foundation Headline African Higher Education Summit

Release Date:

10/06/2014

... a call to action. The summit will mark the beginning of a new agenda for higher education in Africa,” says Dr Tendai Murisa, director of the summit’ s lead organiser TrustAfrica. The African Higher Education...

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Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

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11/03/2014

... Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’ s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began ... speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’ s philanthropic vanguard. After a...

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Verizon Foundation to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools

Release Date:

12/05/2014

... for professional development for teachers or to leverage new technologies — like 3D printing, robotics or coding — ...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... with LaGuardia for five years through the company’ s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a program offering management education and support services to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. The gift will nearly...

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

Release Date:

04/01/2015

... approval program. Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by the FDA in close to ... five decades. USAID is hoping that Johnson & Johnson’ s latest commitment will spur further...

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Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising

Release Date:

03/20/2015

... Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising A new study by Philly Political Media Watch finds that during ...

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North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform

Release Date:

03/24/2015

... Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform Mayor de Blasio has a new police problem on his hands — only this time from his ... in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’ s top donors for its efforts. The “Let Us...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

Release Date:

04/10/2015

... cells most susceptible to the disease - and help devise new prevention and therapy. At the present time, treatment ...

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Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls

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04/14/2015

... women and men took a risk and launched Rosh Hodesh: It’ s a Girl Thing! We wanted to offer a new teen-girl-centric model of Jewish education, one that ...

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

Release Date:

04/30/2015

Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools across ... enrolled in the lowest quality programs, according to a new report released Wednesday by...

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