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Scherman Foundation Welcomes Catherine Porter

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03/13/2014

Catherine Porter has recently joined the Scherman Foundation as their new Administrator.

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Team Working on Suicide Prevention Wins Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge

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06/12/2014

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a team of Morgan Stanley professionals won the sixth annual Morgan Strategy Challenge -- an effort that pairs nonprofit organizations facing a mission critical issue with a team of the financial firm's...

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Philanthropy's Difficult Dance With Inequality

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07/08/2015

Foundation Center President, Brad Smith, examines how funders like Nathan Cummings, F.B Heron , Ford and Carnegie use the term "inequality."

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

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02/17/2016

A group of five national foundations - Ford, MacArthur, Knight, Open Society and Mozilla foundations - are working to promote the use of the Internet for social good, and has announced grants totaling $18 million to strengthen the emerging field of...

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George Soros, Mastercard to Partner to Aid Migrants, Refugees

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01/19/2017

Billionaire investor George Soros will partner with Mastercard Inc on a venture they said could help migrants, refugees and others struggling within their communities worldwide to improve their economic and social status.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Joan Guzik Joins United Hospital Fund as Director, Quality Improvement of the Quality Institute

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01/19/2017

... in New York by identifying and spreading best practices, developing the next generation of leaders, and helping to ...

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The Tow Foundation Appoints Nadia Alia As The New Director Of Operations

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03/28/2017

... “Nadia has shown tremendous strength in improving and developing systems and processes to increase our efficiency ...

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Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations

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04/13/2017

... are becoming more common every day within the developing world. But the true purpose is to telegraph ...

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Caught Our Attention

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

... for Peter and Jennifer Buffett of the NoVo Foundation, developing their own partnership as a couple coincided with developing the mission of their foundation, which is to ...

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

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11/01/2017

According to the 2017 edition of Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys (36 pages, PDF), the fluctuations in funding explicitly designated to benefit African-American men and boys might be due, in part, to large grants...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant

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12/21/2017

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded a grant of $100 million to the Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee (IRC) to develop evidence-based, early education interventions for children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Middle...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge

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02/15/2018

The Partnership for Freedom today announced the three winners of its Pathways to Freedom challenge. Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop citywide approaches to...

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Social Justice

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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing

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06/25/2018

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing The MIT Press has announced the award of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis...

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Wallace Foundation Names New Director of Arts, Bahia Ramos

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08/16/2018

Bahia Ramos has been selected as The Wallace Foundation’s new Director of Arts, the foundation announced today. Ramos, who will oversee one of the foundation’s key grantmaking areas, will join Wallace on September 6, 2018. She succeeds Daniel...

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Mike Bloomberg Visits Gary, Ind. for a Conversation about Community Building through the Arts

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10/09/2018

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge supports cities undertaking temporary public art projects that foster creative collaboration, address civic issues, and support local economies. In 2015, Bloomberg Philanthropies selected the city of...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Leticia Peguero, Vice President of Programs

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11/27/2018

Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is pleased to announce that Leticia Peguero will join the Foundation as Vice President of Programs.

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Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis

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02/13/2019

Johnson & Johnson announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target of ending the TB pandemic by 2030.

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DDCF Launches Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship

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04/12/2019

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the launch of the new Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship program.

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