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Lorelei Williams Joins The Sister Fund as Interim Executive Director

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08/22/2013

Lorelei Williams has been named the Interim Executive Director of The Sister Fund. Williams has over fifteen years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors of the United States, South Africa and Brazil.

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HLH Family Foundation Inc

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Gender Justice

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KACF Expands to San Francisco

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06/19/2014

The Korean American Community Foundation has announced plans to open an affiliate in San Francisco.

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Korean American Community Foundation

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Mark Abrahams Joins FJC as Chief Financial and Investment Officer

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08/19/2014

Mark Abrahams has been appointed Chief Financial and Investment Officer of FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds.

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Hudson Farmlink Organizers See Room for Growth - Doris Duke Foundation

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11/23/2015

Organizers of an online platform that connects property owners with current and aspiring farmers in search of land, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and others, are already making plans to expand the year-old program.

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... they're calling the Year of the Woman and trusting that Americans will finally recognize the importance of women's ... disparities all around us? Could this be the moment when Americans finally stand...

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Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation

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03/29/2017

... on the Boards of the Forum for Youth Investment, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and Evidence ...

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NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship

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05/22/2017

... is administered by the New York State Office for New Americans in partnership with the Robin Hood Foundation, New ... is administered by the New York State Office for New Americans in partnership with the...

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The New York Community Trust

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Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

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11/01/2017

According to the 2017 edition of Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys (36 pages, PDF), the fluctuations in funding explicitly designated to benefit African-American men and boys might be due, in part, to large grants...

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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished attorney and...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high...

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Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential

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03/26/2018

... to meaningfully serve their students, especially African- Americans and first-generation students. Many for-profit ...

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

The still indomitable Nina Simone will be honored by the National Trust as her childhood home in Tyron, N.C. will be named a national treasure.

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Report Funded by Helmsley Charitable Trust Looks at Human Well-Being in NYC

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07/03/2018

... in NYC New Yorkers on average are faring better than Americans as a whole on key barometers of human well-being, ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

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11/15/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today a new $12 million project that will help communities analyze economic mobility in American cities and develop interventions that can increase...

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Research Funded by Leon Levy Foundation Finds Climate Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds

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03/06/2019

Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades, it may be very difficult to predict how climate change will affect...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Four Foundations, Including Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Buy Historic Archives of 'Ebony' Magazine

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07/25/2019

The foundations will donate the archive to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the Getty Research Institute.

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2019 Soros Equality Fellows

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09/20/2019

... in U.S. history; and defending California’s Native Americans ’ battle against false representations of their ...

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13 Apr 2022

Seizing the Moment: Managing Risks and Closing Gaps in NYS’s Health Insurance Safety Net

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Join us for a discussion on the significant number of New Yorkers who are uninsured in spite of coverage efforts and the possible strategic approaches to help diminish the coverage gap.

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Stephanie Teatro appointed US Program Director, Unbound Philanthropy

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01/30/2024

... Justice and Migration at the National Partnership for New Americans . In this role, she led the Climate Justice ... after climate disasters. The National Partnership for New Americans , TIRRC, and Resilience...

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