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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

... 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created a new vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

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12/12/2016

... and activism to help shape the family foundation’ s strategic vision. Under her leadership, the Norman ... To ensure the continued commitment to the Foundation’ s social justice legacy, Makela helped the...

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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

... services. The webinar will also preview NCFP’ s two new tools for community foundations: a self-assessment ...

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BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality

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01/26/2017

... than three million people around the country -- that' s one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another ... many of those same people woke up and asked, "What' s next?" Supporters...

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Gender Justice

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09 Mar 2017

Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

This program is a part of our new Climate Change Series. We invite you to join ... with the filmmaker and the production company' s impact director about strategies for shifting awareness, .....

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

... to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. This new Art for Justice Fund — to be announced Monday at the ...

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Justice Reform

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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

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06/22/2017

... have been so successful, but also how the mainstream media' s failure to adapt to new means of communication plays into internet malcontents' .....

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, ... was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann' s Plant and Environmental...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... field. Aside from the amount of the funding, there’ s a number of notable aspects to the partnership. For one, there’ s an emphasis on some under-explored areas of AI research, ... algorithms work, and the...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... CEO Paul McDonald has now stated he wants to roll out 50 new Bodega locations on the West Coast. By the end of 2018, ... a culturally insensitive name choice, but for the article' s declaration that the...

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... Their latest report, titled “The Power of Voice: A New Era of Cause Activation and...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

... D.C. In turn, these initiatives build on JPMorgan’ s $150 million investment in Detroit, starting in 2014, and reflect sweeping changes in the bank’ s philanthropic strategy that were set in motion five years...

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Community Development

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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

... proud to be a core supporter of SDSS-V." Under Kollmeier' s leadership, the survey' s fifth generation will build off the earlier SDSS incarnations, but will break new ground...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Newman's Own Tax Break Matters Far Beyond Just One Foundation

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11/27/2017

Newman' s Own Tax Break Matters Far Beyond Just One Foundation It ... and 31 kinds of salad dressing with Paul Newman’ s face splashed prominently on the label. Its profits go ... the many highly targeted...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington as Executive Vice President

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01/19/2018

... a role in which she will oversee all of the foundation' s programs in the US and globally. Previously, Pennington served as vice president for the foundation' s programming on Education, Creativity,...

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Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program

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01/24/2018

... on Us program with the announcement of more than 20 new institutions being added to the roster of participating ... on Us provides Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and U. S . Trust credit and debit cardholders...

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JPMorgan Chase to Increase Its Philanthropic Investments to $1.75 Billion Over Five Years

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01/31/2018

... has emerged as one of its leading players. The bank’ s philanthropy, which we explored in a recent deep dive , ... there with many large foundations. Now, JPMorgan Chase’ s corporate responsibility arm is...

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

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02/01/2018

Newman' s Own Foundation Reaches Milestone of $500 Million to Charity Newman' s Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and ... around the world. And he would be gratified to see a new...

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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

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02/06/2018

... Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body New scientific research has revealed how a small part of the ... a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal' s center of gravity...

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