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Newman's Own channels money to broadcasters

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01/31/2013

... has announced grants totaling $2.4 million to 13 public broadcasting stations and organizations. Newman's Own ... has announced grants totaling $2.4 million to 13 public broadcasting stations and...

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Report About NYC’s Libraries Sparks New Proposal from Speaker Quinn

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04/05/2013

... H. Revson Foundation, documented the important role that public libraries play in communities across New York City. In ... about the increasingly important role that the city’s public libraries are playing in...

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Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality

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12/16/2014

... to major telecommunications firms aiming to influence the public debate on net neutrality, there’s the Ford ... private foundation in the world. So it’s no surprise that the Ford Foundation has poured millions...

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Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness

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07/22/2016

... on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness What makes you a public servant? For the purposes of the federal student loan ... Swalwell (D-Calif.), would allow borrowers who work in public service for incremental...

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Ford Foundation Paper Cited in Wired Article on the Future of Open Source Code

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08/11/2016

... demand. Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of ... to individuals—to write their own software. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to NJ Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic

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10/26/2016

... Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, announced an open call for ... Drug Addiction Crisis. NJTV challenges members of the public to write an original poem about...

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Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

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11/02/2016

... On the same day the diversity report was released, Public Advocate Letitia James called for the city Department ... oversee efforts to reduce segregation in New York City’s public schools.” While the new...

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... selected from nearly 1,100 nominations submitted by the public detailing how their favorite librarians working in public , school, college, community college or university ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Success Academy Ratchets up Pressure on City to Give It Space

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09/15/2017

... network to approve a request for shared space inside public -school buildings for up to seven new middle schools. ... the earliest the city can approve those requests is at a public meeting in November,...

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Four Essentials for Evaluation

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06/2012

... level in their evaluation efforts and embed evaluation practices more deeply in the work of their organizations. GEO ...

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Red Hook Autumn: Losing and Gaining Power During the Disaster

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01/18/2013

... a small community-based nonprofit used their management practices and institutional focus to go above and beyond ...

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Wallace Report Connects the Dots of Data Use in Afterschool Systems

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05/31/2016

... to help understand and improve afterschool systems and practices ... Wallace Report Connects the Dots of Data Use in ...

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Model Partnerships for Impact: The Cricket Island Foundation and Communities United

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10/12/2016

... study spotlights these two organizations' lessons and best practices ... Model Partnerships for Impact: The Cricket .....

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The Cricket Island Foundation

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The Goldilocks Approach to Nonprofit Board Size: What Is “Just Right”?

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10/05/2017

... with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices ” report is a simple one on board size. Average ...

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Philanthropy’s Response To Hurricane Sandy

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11/08/2012

... be updated frequently over the coming weeks with news on resources , initiatives and stories of impact. If you know of any philanthropic activities or resources related to Hurricane Sandy that we haven’t listed...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

... information, idea exchange, and gathering of philanthropic resources across the borough. “The idea for the Brooklyn ... local nonprofits. Nonprofits are always seeking more resources , donors, and board members...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which have been linked to ... grant, says limited rights to access and use of natural resources to generate wealth by...

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... Engineers are very mature organizations, and what they can do is very tightly controlled by laws and appropriations from ... doing things that way, because it takes a lot of effort to do things differently...

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