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Sean Gibbons Named Communications Network Executive Director

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04/28/2014

The Communication’s Network announced that Sean Gibbons will be their new executive director starting on June 3.

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2014 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences Announced

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06/10/2014

Twelve young investigators in neuroscience research have been named recipients of the 2014 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences .

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We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change

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09/23/2014

Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker, explores the enormous impact of climate change and how immediate action needs to be taken.

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Environment and Climate Change

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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

The coalition, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, has picked Marc Kastner as its first president.

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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

The foundation has provided a grant to help expand the Y's Diabetes Prevention Program.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

According to Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President, arts funding is critical to advancing social justice.

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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

... Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) to advance and expand internet-mediated autism research. This ...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million to 11 Arts Organizations

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09/03/2015

... to engage audiences across the country and significantly advance the health and vitality of their respective fields. ...

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UU Veatch's Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP's Board of Directors

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09/25/2015

... for Justice, a coalition of funders formed recently to advance racial justice. Hafid is joined by Bill Dempsey, ...

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Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly brain cancer. Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to turn this engine of tumor growth into a target for cancer treatment.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... City. Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to advance programming and services that directly benefit LGBTQ ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

Funded by a $32 million gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, Harvard University and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, management, and innovation in cities across America and around the...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the museum’s new contemporary art initiative. Ms. ...

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

A counter-argument to common critques of the nonprofit sector's failure to hold executives accountable

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Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

The new figures confirm trends reported in the Center for New York City Affairs’ July 19th Urban Matters post, “More Jobs, Rising Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health.”

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

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10/13/2017

... research, using the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, finds that ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and...

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