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The New York Community Trust

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa

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01/21/2015

... rural poor, especially smallholder farmers who are mostly women and who depend on subsistence agriculture for their ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

Natasha Lifton Joins The New York Community Trust as Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and Families

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03/16/2015

... Natasha Lifton is The New York Community Trust’ s new Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and ... she will manage grants that address girls and young women , hunger and homelessness, and social services...

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The New York Community Trust

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... The loans they make benefit low-income families, women , the environment, and small businesses, to name a few. ...

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Community Development

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

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08/27/2015

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia' s Justice-In-Education Initiative The seminar in 401 ... Hall focused on classic literary texts, including Homer’ s Odyssey, Shakespeare’ s...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... Rodney Wilson, suggested that LGBT history — like women ’ s history and African-American history — needed a month ...

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Arcus Foundation

The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography

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09/29/2015

... grants to help create eight ballet companies across the U. S . Most of these companies were founded and cultivated by ... a company becomes, in my observation, the more likely women are going to disappear from...

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Gender Justice

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The Wallace Foundation

Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

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11/20/2015

... in this city has made parents fear for their children’ s safety. The poverty is more evident a few blocks away, ... food stamps. Across the street from one store, men and women sit in an empty lot, some in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Century Foundation

Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

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02/11/2016

... Its First Decade Friday, January 29, was Bob Woodruff' s 10th Alive Day . As we reflect on the day that a roadside bomb nearly took Bob' s life in Iraq, we celebrate the impact that moment has had...

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Veterans

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Bob Woodruff Foundation

Revson Fellowship Produces Research on Female Face of Genocide

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03/16/2016

... Foundation Fellowship, Cushman researched the lives of women at the Birkenau concentration camp. . . Revson ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts

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04/14/2016

... Foundation Grant in Media Arts An exhibition at Vero’ s newest gallery, Raw Space at Edgewood, is devoted this ... known as Project Space 1785) features “Six Men, Two Women , Eight Views on Photography.” Co-...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater' s OSLO Cast OSLO is supported by a Theatre Commissioning ... thriller and the personal story of a small band of women and men struggling together-and fighting each...

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Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues

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10/03/2016

... on and off screen remains one of Hollywood’ s greatest challenges despite increased rhetoric from several ... career in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women worldwide and her work in youth...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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04/26/2017

... journalists, and authors with the goal of strengthening U. S . democracy, driving technological and cultural creativity, ... The winning proposals address issues such as inequity in U. S . education,...

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Workforce Development

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... This was most widely reported by men of color, with women of all backgrounds experiencing significantly more ...

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Social Justice

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MetLife Foundation Innovation Competition Recognizes Indian Entrepreneur

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05/03/2017

... app will be distributed through peer educators, who are women from the community and are graduates of the financial ...

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Economic Security

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MetLife

Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’ s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery ... test his idea and build a nonprofit that helps the men and women earn food service...

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

Study: Giving Leads to Happiness The adage says it’ s better to give than to receive. But is it really? The ... showed that generosity changed the activity in people’ s brains in ways that increase feelings of...

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Ford and PBS Partner on Documentary Series

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06/15/2018

... the unexpected journey to success of some of the world' s most influential artists, innovators, political leaders, ... traces the unusual paths followed by 12 talented men and women - from country music...

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