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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with Art in America, has launched a pilot writing fellowship to support arts and culture writing in regions of the country that are often underrepresented in the media. The goal of the program is to...

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

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02/17/2016

... latest grants were awarded to the New America Foundation' s Open Technology Institute in support of its TechCongress ... Collaboration Network, a project of Harvard University' s Data Privacy Lab,...

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Pershing Square Foundation-Supported Study: 5% Weight Loss Can Make A Difference for Obese People

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02/23/2016

... 5% weight loss, rather than 5% to 10% weight loss, which increases the perception of failure when patients do not ...

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Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships

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03/14/2016

... for College/Community Partnerships The Teagle Foundation’ s Board of Directors has approved over $2 million in grants ... program. Funds were also awarded under the Foundation’ s “Graduate Student Teaching in...

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JPB Foundation Promotes Betsy Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program

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04/22/2016

... at the JPB Foundation. She will manage the Foundation’ s grantmaking programs with the goal of increasing ... in the Poverty Program, overseeing the Foundation’ s grants in the areas of immigrants’ rights,...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic Agendas

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05/06/2016

... Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’ s Economic Agendas The push for an increase in the minimum ... policies must address the full spectrum of women’ s lives, including access to comprehensive...

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Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"

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01/06/2017

... recent weeks, I’ve found myself ruminating on Hughes’ s Let America Be America Again, especially its astonishing ... increasingly callous, contemptuous, and polarizing... Ford' s Darren Walker Writes,...

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

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03/28/2017

... role, Nadia will create and direct the Foundation’ s various operating systems. She will also develop and implement the Foundation’ s internal activities that enable the Foundation’ s current...

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one' s gender is considered a critical part of early childhood ... candidate at the University of Washington and the study' s lead author. "In...

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NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform

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05/11/2017

NY Women’ s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in ... biased bail process to uniforms designed to fit men’ s larger frames, the system fails to consider that when it ... Criminal Justice and...

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As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

... and students streamed into the library of Palo Alto’ s Gunn High School on a warm evening this spring to hear ...

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Our Democracy, Philanthropy and What’s Next

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06/21/2017

Our Democracy, Philanthropy and What’ s Next by Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice President, ... And not today. Last Friday at Philanthropy New York’ s 38 th Annual Meeting: The Power of Participation , hundreds...

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Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change

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07/25/2017

... Sandy hit New York to devastating effect, America’ s most populated city is still rebuilding in some areas — ...

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Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage

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08/29/2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a series of bills to help reduce the number of smokers in New York City by 160,000 by 2020.

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... place, but that much work remains to be done. The report' s conclusions are...

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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... are some of the top reasons women enter the state' s criminal justice system. And, they're staying longer. ... number of sentences for women. Some have increased women' s sentences for drug...

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George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations

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10/18/2017

George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’ s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have ... can play a significant role in keeping global temperature increases under 2 degrees...

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Mertz Gilmore and Howard Gilman Foundations Among Funders Backing The Springboard Project's 2018 Residencies

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10/24/2017

... Foundations Among Funders Backing The Springboard Project' s 2018 Residencies In a recent post, I reported on ... early conceptual stages of a new dance-driven musical. It' s the kind of program we...

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