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Brooklyn Community Foundation names Tynesha McHarris Director of Community Leadership

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05/29/2014

... McHarris will be joining the Foundation next week in a new position as Director of Community Leadership. Tynesha has ... staff member, she will help design the Foundation’ s new community...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

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09/09/2014

Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation' s Top Philanthropists Barbara Picower has resumed her role ... as one of the nation’ s top philanthropists, heading a new foundation...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

... communities, the Aetna Foundation is looking for new ways to accelerate innovation and reach people directly where they live, work and play. That' s why we've launched the Healthier World Innovation...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $8.7 Million for T1D Research Program

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03/30/2015

... programs designed to improve clinical care and translate new therapeutics; and cultivate new funding sources to ensure the program’ s sustainability. The grant includes a two-to-one matching...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

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10/07/2015

... Ford as a senior fellow, contributing to the foundation’ s work on democracy, rights, and justice. Michelle is a ... over the past two decades. Her best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... Energy Could Get Cheaper The offshore wind industry’ s efforts to distance itself from Cape Wind continued this ... Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less...

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Ford Foundation"s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence of Impact Investing on Philanthropy

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05/12/2016

Ford Foundation" s Darren Walker Participates in Discussion on the Influence ... Investing on Philanthropy Impact investing can lead to new strategies for entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses. That...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. That' s a theory posited by two political scientists, Michael ... Sage Foundation. Jones-Correa and McCann used a new survey, the Latino Immigrant...

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Supported by Commonwealth Fund, Study Shows Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test

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07/18/2016

... Diabetes, Depression Apps Are Failing the Usability Test A new UCSF study finds that some of the most popular apps for ... popular mHealth apps are basically useless, according to a new study out of the...

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Carnegie Corporation Names Robert Rosenthal Director of Information Technology

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08/01/2016

... all aspects of IT, including: selection and deployment of new applications; oversight and upgrades of systems; ... management; support of the design and implementation of a new website and intranet; and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

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10/06/2016

... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...

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Economic Security

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

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10/11/2016

... by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’ s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing When my wife, Betsy, ... we wanted to be catalytic—to take risks to prove new models, so that larger funders with less...

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Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines

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10/25/2016

... by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’ s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines Young Americans ... former secretary of state will help people like them, a new GenForward poll shows. Clinton...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season

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11/03/2016

... the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a ...

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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02/16/2017

... George Suttles joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new program office. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan ... health systems. The foundation is also keeping abreast of new innovations in health...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

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04/06/2017

... Women Playwrights Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary ... Fawcett and Michelle Kholos Brooks, and distinctive new plays that will feature...

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Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

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04/14/2017

... LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’ s Impact on Jobs America needs new tools for the timely measurement and monitoring of ... mainly of economists and computer scientists said in a ...

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JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset Building in Communities of Color

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05/26/2017

... of Color The mix of funders worried about America' s vast racial gaps in wealth and opportunity is increasingly ... can't move faster to build earning power and wealth. A new partnership between CFED...

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