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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

Release Date:

08/08/2016

... of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The first -of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices ...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

Release Date:

11/02/2016

... the greater Hartford community. The University was the first private university in the country with two public magnet schools on campus... Newman's Own Names Walter .....

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Food Systems

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An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

Release Date:

12/22/2016

... want to ensure college access for disadvantaged and first -generation college students, but fewer focus on ... students in the nation’s most prestigious public and private colleges by 50,000 by the year 2025...

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

Release Date:

06/28/2017

... Combat Fake News Combating fake news and bolstering the public ’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt ... journalism project that was devised and developed by First Draft and Google News Lab to...

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Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control

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08/28/2017

... virtual reality for innovation, collaboration and public awareness on nuclear arms control and materials ... weapons and materials, according to the proposal. The first part of the project is meant to provide...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Nonprofits Help Shift Mayor De Blasio's Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Melissa Mark-Viverito to chair the commission – and at first thought it an “unenviable request.” “There was no great public clamor to close Rikers Island,” Lippman said about ...

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Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees

Release Date:

02/25/2019

... Edsel Ford, who created the foundation in 1936. It is the first time in more than 40 years that a Ford family member ... and divestment in holdings of Ford stock all before a public disagreement on the grant...

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The Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2022 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

Release Date:

06/29/2022

... promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health . The selected Scholars will receive grants of up to ...

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Science

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12 Mar 2014

Executive Assistants Network: Identifying Your Role

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 -

12:15pm to 2:00pm

... Cancer Society, and Maureen Rayhill, Director of Human Resources at The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable ... with your supervisor, foundation staff, and the general public act as important gateways...

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Journalism Needs to Reinvent Itself: A Q&A with OSF’s Maria Teresa Ronderos

Release Date:

09/19/2018

... Teresa Ronderos How should philanthropies with limited resources act to stem the tide of a global recession in ... cementing an ongoing crisis of trust vis-à-vis the public . Up against challenges that dwarf...

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Video

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Communications/Media

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Open Society Foundations

New York Life Foundation awards $1.5 million in grants to out-of-school time programs to help middle school students transition to 9th grade.

Release Date:

06/03/2021

... to new grants, 16 programs will continue to receive grants first announced in 2020. Together, these programs support ... Alliance The Afterschool Alliance is a nonprofit public awareness and advocacy...

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22 Oct 2020

Centering Racial Justice in the Immigrant Rights Movement - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, October 22, 2020 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* Join Grantmakers Concerned with ... organizations, and cross-movement collaborations that are advancing...

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Open Society Foundations, Foundation for a Just Society, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Create Group Initiative to Support Women's Funds

Release Date:

11/20/2019

... firm. Women’s funds have received significant new resources from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Global ... in recent years. However, the vast majority of these resources are used to support grassroots...

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Gender Justice

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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Foundation for a Just Society

Sophia Stewart Joins Ford Foundation as Department Coordinator

Release Date:

07/01/2013

... Development and Strategic Planning from the New School for Public Engagement, Milano School of International Affairs, ... and Urban Policy. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Health Science, concentrating...

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07 May 2013

Community Food Funders Annual Gathering

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

... Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University ...

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The Post-Bloomberg Plunge

Release Date:

04/10/2014

... goes global, NYC nonprofits miss their biggest patron. No other leader of New York City has run the place from his ... man in 2013, donated north of $263 million to city art, public health ,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

What's Keeping Bloomberg Busy These Days

Release Date:

07/03/2014

... and with his climate initiative C40; his partnerships on public health , immigration, coal, oceans, and infrastructure, ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Americans' Wait Time To See Doctors Is Longer Than in Many Other Countries

Release Date:

07/05/2014

... injections. Experts say that wait times for immediate health needs are likely to increase, the result of the tens ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge

Release Date:

07/22/2014

... work across sectors such as affordable housing, education, health care, and workforce development," they write. ... work as a team toward agreed-upon goals, such as improving public safety or academic...