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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

Release Date:

11/01/2017

... Bard Prison Initiative. Now Bard College is launching a new satellite in another site that bucks tradition: the ... “The way we go about college access in the U. S . is a catastrophic failure,” said Max Kenner...

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Mellon Foundation

15 Mar 2018

Imagining the Future: Pursuing Excellence in Family Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, March 15, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... only.* We invite you to participate in an exciting new program. NCFP is using the opportunity of this ... landscape, how do you see the field changing? What new tools, strategies and collaborative initiatives...

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Family Foundation

Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

Release Date:

12/18/2017

... The News Industry Women will lead the news industry’ s revolution. This will be a year of reckoning, the year a new wave of diverse news leaders shapes American journalism ... with the audience. The departures...

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Michigan State University Uses Mellon Foundation Grant To Build Massive Slave Trade Database

Release Date:

01/09/2018

... grant from the Mellon Foundation. ''Enslaved' brings new digital tools and analytical approaches to the study of ... Walter Hawthorne, professor and chair of MSU' s Department of History...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors

Release Date:

04/05/2018

... survey of mayors to date. The survey reveals that America' s mayors increasingly feel on the hook for addressing major ... time, more mayors say that their relationship with the new administration has...

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ASPCA Opens Permanent, State-of-the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center

Release Date:

05/10/2018

... are victims of cruelty or neglect. The ASPCA opened this new permanent facility following the success of a four-year behavioral rehabilitation pilot program in New Jersey, where more than 300 dogs suffering...

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The Pfizer Foundation Announces $5 Million in Grants to Support Women and Families

Release Date:

05/30/2018

... Women and Families The Pfizer Foundation announced today a new $5 million grant commitment to initiatives in low- and ... at the same time children are routinely vaccinated. These new grants build on The...

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The Pfizer Foundation Announces $5 Million in Grants to Support Women and Families

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05/30/2018

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Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency

Release Date:

06/28/2018

... Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’ s contracts with the U. S . Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a ... enforce Trump administration immigration policies at the U. ...

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Commonwealth Funded Study Shows Impacts State-based Individual Mandates Would Have in 2019

Release Date:

07/25/2018

... mandates. Massachusetts implemented its mandate in 2006. New Jersey, Vermont, and the District of Columbia passed ... and DC were not included in the Commonwealth Fund’ s list of states with individual...

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

... Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset ... of retired professional hockey and football players. The new research adds important...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Names More Organizations to Join Cohort of 200 Participating in $43 Million Arts Innovation and Management Training Program

Release Date:

09/05/2018

... of small and midsize cultural organizations within seven U. S . cities: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Denver, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. More than 200 ... the country’ s most...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Official Sees Opportunity Zone Program Role

Release Date:

11/02/2018

... Foundation says foundations could provide loans to make new funds attractive for investors. A top official of the ... may be able to play a role under the federal government’ s opportunity zone program in...

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

Release Date:

11/15/2018

... Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today a new $12 million project that will help communities analyze ... Harris, CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies. "Through this new partnership, we will follow...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis

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02/13/2019

... 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis, the World’ s #1 Infectious Killer Ahead of the first-ever United Nations ... an estimated 1.8 million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next...

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Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

Release Date:

03/04/2019

... color and women, a report from Arabella Advisors and the New Venture Fund argues. According to the report, An ... women, who represent 38 percent and 50.8 percent of the U. S . population, respectively, but...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

Release Date:

04/05/2019

... Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 ... in light pollution in Chicago in recent years, the new findings show that more needs to be done,...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate

Release Date:

06/04/2019

... chemical processes that occur in the indoor climate. But new advanced equipment and new analysis methods enable us to map how emissions from ...

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Open Society University Network Launches to Transform Higher Education

Release Date:

01/23/2020

... Soros announced today that he is creating a new university network to better prepare students for current ... excellent but politically endangered scholars into this new global network. Already, OSUN is...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Increases Spending to Seize ‘Hinge Moment in History’

Release Date:

06/30/2020

... board, will work to advance racial justice, strengthen U. S . democracy, and generate new economic thinking to address global climate change and ... our spending.” The increased spending plan includes a...