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Ford Foundation Appoints David Barth as Director of Youth Opportunity and Learning

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10/19/2015

... acting deputy assistant administrator for Legislative and Public Affairs, and director of the Office of Education, ... University. He was the recipient of the Harold Shapiro Public Service Award and the Murray...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Carnegie Funded Commission Releases Report on Financial Aid & The Future of Undergraduate Education

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05/11/2017

The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a new publication: Undergraduate Financial Aid in the United States , authored by Judith Scott-Clayton, associate professor of economics...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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12 Dec 2018

Meet Chancellor Richard A. Carranza

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... join us for this program co-sponsored by the Fund for Public Schools and the Donor's Education Collaborative to ... please log in and click the Register Now link above. ( no fee) Guests of organizers:...

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12 Jul 2012

Streamlining Grants Management: Partnering NYC & Philanthropy to Work with Grantees

Thursday, July 12, 2012 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... and speed provider selection for contracts, and redirect resources to high-value activities. These goals will be ... of Management Innovation, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Designed...

Sesame Workshop Receives Groundbreaking Gift from Peter G. Peterson to Expand Community Initiative

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06/07/2018

... provides tools designed to address early-learning basics, health and well-being, and issues related to traumatic ... with on-the-ground community providers to deliver critical resources ... Sesame Workshop...

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William T. Grant Foundation Names Ten William T. Grant Scholars Finalists

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12/12/2018

... support the applicant’s research goals with sufficient resources during the grant period, so the nomination reflects ... of early-career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences... William T...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Thomas H. Kean is Elected Board Chair of Carnegie Corporation of New York

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03/01/2013

... Chairman’s chair with a glad heart. Governor Kean was first elected a member of the Carnegie Corporation Board of ... and unwavering advocate of Andrew Carnegie’s mandate to do ‘real and permanent good in this...

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05 Dec 2013

Ripple Effects: DACA’s Impact on DREAMers and Their Families

Thursday, December 5, 2013 -

11:45am to 3:00pm

Philanthropy New York

... than half of successful applicants have since opened their first bank account. Nearly two-thirds got a new job. And 15 ... have not yet applied for relief under DACA. Many do not meet the educational...

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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation Reported first yesterday by the Jewish Daily Forward , the Nathan ...

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Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies

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10/08/2015

... intent; it would be doubly difficult for my children to do so.” And so the foundation, established at first with aims of perpetuity, changed course. It would spend ...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office

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05/31/2017

... New Detroit Office The Ford Foundation is establishing its first presence in Detroit since leaving the Motor City in ... someone working in the city, is a more effective way to do our work." He starts...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth

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11/07/2017

... short chains of amino acids known as peptides to do the main work of cells, and lipids to form encapsulating structures such as cell walls. However, no one has previously found a substance that was plausibly...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... else, like a smartphone, process the video instead. They do this using a technique called backscatter, through which a ... HD video.” In today’s streaming cameras, the camera first processes and compresses the...

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

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02/13/2019

... the World’s #1 Infectious Killer Ahead of the first -ever United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on ...

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Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA

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05/27/2019

... The study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics , is the first to functionally link such mutations to the ... unaffected parents and siblings. These individuals had no family history of autism, meaning the...

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Build Up Advisory Group Shares Part III of How to Build an Effective Grant-Making Process

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03/26/2021

... This third building block comes after consideration of the first two building blocks, which are understanding your ... of building grant-making processes and infrastructure, we do not believe there is any...

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Assessment Released on SeaChange Capital Partners' The New York Pooled PRI Fund

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06/03/2021

... with nonprofits that need access to flexible, impact- first loans. While PRIs should be the type of impact ... not made any PRIs before joining the fund but now do substantially all of their PRIs through it. A...

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23 Mar 2022

Native American Communities and the Elections - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... simply trying to exercise the right to vote. And the first ever Fair Districting in Indian Country Project is ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... to consider grant making initiatives that may seem, at first , to be only peripherally related...

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