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Weinberg Foundation To Make $700,000 in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits in Israel

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07/29/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced today it will donate $700,000 to support many of its active grantees that have provided crucial social services to those affected by rocket attacks on cities in Israel.

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Donors Education Collaborative Awards $995,000 For Education Reform

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08/04/2014

... Reform The Donors’ Education Collaborative, a fund at The New York Community Trust established to improve ... opportunity for all students. Current members to the fund include the Catherine and Joseph Aresty...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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NoVo Foundation

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

The American Express Corporate social Responsibility Blog explores the top 10 things foundations and corporations should do when considering whether to support nonprofit organizations.

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PNY Members Among Top Ten Funders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work

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09/18/2014

Ford, Open Society and Arcus are among the top funders for LGBTQ education and safe school works.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have set up a $4 million fund to help poor countries resist pressure from big tobacco ... sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere. The fund , to be backed by Bloomberg...

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Health

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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for Libraries

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04/06/2015

Julie Sandorf takes de Blasio to task in a NY Daily News editorial for reducing library funding in his preliminary operating budget.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Public Policy

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

The report was released by the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."

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Environment and Climate Change

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

Goldman Sachs lent $7.2 million to New York City and Bloomberg Philanthropies guaranteed $6 million.

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Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List

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01/08/2016

Restrictions against the Ford Foundation placed by the Indian Government are being lifted after the foundation registered itself under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA.)

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

According to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior fellow Andrew Stettner, our current unemployment insurance system is facing a funding crisis that has made the safety net weaker than any time in its history.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/22/2016

The program provides funding to physician-scientists who are one to five years into their first faculty appointment to support their transitions to independent research careers.

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Health

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Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

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07/25/2016

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Wilson College a $100,000 grant to strengthen writing instruction for students, especially those in their first year.

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Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter

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08/08/2016

... infrastructure,” by investing in the Black-Led Movement Fund , (BLMF) a pooled donor fund designed to support the work of the Movement for Black ...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to University of Michigan to Endow Postdoctoral Humanities Positions

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09/12/2016

Additional funds were committed by the Rackham Graduate School to permanently secure these positions. In 2007, a $1.97 million gift from the Mellon Foundation funded these positions for six years.

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Surdna Foundation to Recognize Four Community Development Financial Institutions

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10/31/2016

Opportunity Finance Network, Goldman Sachs, and the Surdna Foundation will award four CDFIs, including Accion and CSBDF, with the 2016 Small Business Leader Award for Mission-Driven Lenders.

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

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12/13/2016

Investing heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace.

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