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Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?

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11/01/2016

The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.

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Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved

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11/17/2016

The Pinkerton Foundation, formed in 1966 by the family that made its fortune in private security, has quietly given more than 300 million dollars to children’s organizations in the city, the New York Times reports.

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Noa Meyer Joins Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Board of Directors

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12/16/2016

Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Noa Meyer to its Board of Directors, effective November 18, 2016.

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Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

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12/21/2016

Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers While it isn’t an uncommon ... and technological capacity. New York-based grantmaking foundations distributed about $10.7 billion of the...

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International Critical Theory Consortium Launches With Mellon Foundation Help

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02/02/2017

The consortium, a special project of the Program in Critical Theory, is made possible by a $1.5 million, three-and-a half-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Supports Artists As Catalysts For Social Change

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02/08/2017

The primary driver behind the Rubin Foundation's grant—the idea that artists should be catalysts for social change—is gaining more currency across the arts philanthropy field, much to the detriment of evergreen institutions like the Met.

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Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D

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03/23/2017

We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, albeit with very complex chemistry.

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports 'Food for Soul' to Combat Food Waste

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04/13/2017

Backing from the Foundation will enable Food for Soul to take its successful Refettorio model to some of the USA’s most vulnerable communities.

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

A March 2017 survey by the Rockefeller Foundation noted that half of recent college graduates are not using skills they learned in college at work, and 86 percent are learning new skills outside of college.

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Rockefeller Foundation's Dr. Raj Shah’s First Visit to Southeast Asia

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01/10/2018

In his travel to Bangkok, he explored the Foundation’s current critical work, discovered the deep and respectful partnership with the region, and states why the Asia-Pacific region is a land of promise.

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Simons Foundation Announces 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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04/02/2018

The Simons Foundation congratulates the 52 outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2018.

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Westchester Community Foundation Announces the Appointment of Rebecca Kraley Putter

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01/02/2012

... Putter served as a consultant to regional community foundations and nonprofit organizations; a grantmaker at The ...

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Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

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05/16/2013

... have caused concern among policymakers, communities and foundations . Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay ...

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MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion

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10/28/2013

PND reported on the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation names Tynesha McHarris Director of Community Leadership

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05/29/2014

Tynesha McHarris will be joining the Brooklyn Community Foundation next week in a new position as Director of Community Leadership. Tynesha has been working with the Foundation since January on Brooklyn Insights, overseeing Neighborhood Dialogues...

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Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation

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07/07/2014

Laura Packer has been named executive director of the Howard Gilman Foundation, effective July 22.

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Gifts From Buffett Include $150 Million For NoVo Foundation

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07/15/2014

... personal giving record by donating $2.8 billion to several foundations earlier this week, including $150 million to the ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

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07/17/2014

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help connect poor Americans with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty.

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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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