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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

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08/24/2016

Major philanthropies like the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation have invested deeply in finding a small number of great philanthropic investments—but they have been unusual.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Impact Investing

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Connecticut Seventh-Grader Wins SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite ® Essay Competition

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04/26/2019

... who evaluate students’ understanding of long-term investing , diversification, the global capital markets, and ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Education

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SIFMA Foundation

Sophia Stewart Joins Ford Foundation as Department Coordinator

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07/01/2013

... Office Coordinator at The NGO Committee on the Status of Women , New York (NGO/CSW/NY). There, she worked as a liaison ... domestic and international NGOs and the organization UN Women to help bridge...

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

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02/10/2015

... Girls in School President Obama’s November report on Women and Girls of Color was an important step, inviting ... some attention to the unique obstacles these girls and women face. Girls of color, and African...

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Education

The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

... dedicated programming, specifically designed for young women in high school. Through the program, girls will have ... access to strong female role models and collaborate with women entrepreneurs and corporate...

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Education

MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

Workforce Development

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.1 Million to 41 Theater Programs

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07/06/2015

... has an annual budget between $75,000 and $3.5 million. Women lead about half of the organizations, while 25% have ... on social justice, or on artists and communities of color, women and people with...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... countries around the world. And yet students, particularly women , are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their ... needed. Just 24 percent of the world's STEM workforce is women and only 10 percent...

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NoVo and Ms. Foundations Support Grantmakers for Girls of Color Funders Convening

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03/02/2016

... an exploration of the challenges facing girls and young women of color and to create a plan to drive long-term ... explore the power and unique challenges facing black young women and girls across the United...

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Ms. Foundation for Women

NoVo Foundation

PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

... Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women Nonprofit Shouldn't Mean Nonviable in New York The .....

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PhilTV This Week

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Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice

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09/08/2017

... only hold 13% of top leadership positions. And although women comprise 75% of the nonprofit workforce, they make up ... different. The staff and board of Third Wave Fund is 90% women and 70% people of color...

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Social Justice

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Third Wave Foundation

Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... performed surgical experiments on enslaved black women in the 19th century without their consent and without anesthesia. According to Sims, “black women don’t feel pain.” . . . Opinion: Planned Parenthood ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

... is part of the reason the gender pay gap is narrowing: Women are earning more, but their male counterparts are ... Sage Foundation, which focuses on poverty research. " Women 's earnings are...

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Economic Security

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Russell Sage Foundation

Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... Responds to Alabama Special Election Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa C. Younger released the ... who remain on the wrong side of history. “To the brave women who stood up and shared...

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