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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), a UN initiative to increase access to microfinance and other forms ...

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

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11/20/2014

... Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative to facilitate stronger philanthropic input into ...

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Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

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03/17/2015

... president. The organizations behind Kastner and the initiative , which launched in 2013, boast a history of ...

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Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

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04/29/2015

The Genesis Generation Challenge started as a way to fuel ideas to better society.

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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal

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05/13/2015

The Fund has already collected $50,000 in initial support.

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include $398,000 over three years to the Rochester .....

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... Artist Awards, launched in late 2011 as a special 10-year initiative of the foundation to empower, invest in and ...

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Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds

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07/30/2015

... monitor, the nonprofit Vera Institute, announced the initiative , had failed to hit its goal to cut repeat offenses ...

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

Stancell was most previously a program officer for the foundation.

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Weinberg Foundation Matching Grant Initiaitive Raises More than $9 Million for Workforce Development

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08/20/2015

... today $9.3 million in total funding for a matching grant initiative intended to energize the philanthropic community ...

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Morgan Stanley Launches Perspectives in Philanthropy, Vol. 13, 'The Advancement of Women and Girls'

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08/26/2015

... those at Morgan Stanley through their MAKERS@ corporate initiative ; and Deb Pulver, founder of the nonprofit Strands ...

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Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding

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08/27/2015

... now partnered with the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) to advance and expand internet-mediated ...

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the University of Pennsylvania a $2 million grant to support University initiatives in the digital humanities in both Penn Arts & Sciences and Penn Libraries.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

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09/16/2015

... Innovation And Management Program Through this two-year initiative , Bloomberg Philanthropies provides unrestricted ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Foundation (NSF). The Synthetic Biology Project is an initiative of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for ...

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MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

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09/18/2015

The foundation will explore how corporate America is empowering people to build better lives.

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

... the National League of Cities (NLC) is launching a new initiative in partnership with MetLife Foundation to help ...

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Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality

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11/09/2015

Under a new strategy announced today, the Ford Foundation will double the amount it provides to grantees to cover administrative overhead costs and steer $1 billion over five years toward strengthening social-justice organizations. At the same time...

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Tisch, NY State Health Foundations Support Creating Oases in New York City’s ‘Food Deserts’

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12/03/2015

... Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new Building Healthy Communities initiative . The multimillion-dollar public-private ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Names Jennifer Hu Corriggio as Philanthropy Chief

Jennifer Hu Corriggio

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12/07/2015

Westchester Community Foundation has named Jennifer Hu Corriggio of Scarsdale its director of philanthropy and donor relations.

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