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With Latest $350 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Surpasses $1 Billion in Giving to Alma Mater

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01/29/2013

... degree in Engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1964, made his first donation, a gift of $5, in 1965. Philanthropist and New ...

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Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature

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09/12/2013

... Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would make the state the first in the nation to mandate time-and-a-half pay for ...

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Workforce Development

How One Foundation Is Making Waves With Art And Social Activism

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09/05/2013

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and its first Director of Philanthropy, Risë Wilson, are profiled by ...

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Effective Philanthropy Takes Time

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06/26/2014

... long-term goal, even if change is barely noticeable in the first few years. As he puts it, "philanthropy is “a .....

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 10-Fold Increase in Grant Distributions

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07/25/2014

... than 90 percent going to Brooklyn nonprofits—for the first six months of 2014, a 10-fold increase over the same ...

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Mellon Foundation Gives Inaugural National History Teacher of the Year Award

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03/13/2015

... named the best history teacher in the nation, but also the first teacher in Michigan to receiver the prestigious honor ...

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Ford Foundation Hires Michelle Obama’s Aide

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04/17/2015

... Aide Kristen Jarvis, a longtime special assistant to First Lady Michelle Obama, takes on a newly created position ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Donate $100 Million to Cornell Tech Campus

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06/16/2015

... on the $2 billion campus and come with a nice perk–the first academic building will be named The Bloomberg Center, ...

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New York City Takes Steps to Increase the Safety of Employees at Homeless Shelters

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07/07/2015

... castle that looms over Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn is the first stopover for many of New York City’s homeless men. ...

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Ford's Walker Explores the Value of Civil Society in Recent Report

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07/09/2015

... Value of Civil Society in Recent Report During my very first days as President of the Ford Foundation, I ...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Should Run for President, According to NewsWorks

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08/24/2015

... Here's one: Two candidates who emerged from the first CNN debates with a bounce in their steps routinely tout .....

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Daphne Foundation President Receives Top Honors from the International Women's Media Foundation

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09/30/2015

... socially conscious documentaries and recently directed her first : "The Armor of Light," about a minister preaching .....

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

... research and scholarship about American art. One of the first in the nation to make its entire collection available ...

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

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04/05/2016

... building on the Upper West Side. The institution, CUNY’s first new community college in more than four decades, will ...

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Citi Foundation and Americas Promise Alliance Announce the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund

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04/06/2016

... the Launch of the 2016 Youth Opportunity Fund The Fund, first launched in 2015, will award one-year grants up to ...

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Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science

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07/27/2016

... and neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin are co-hosts for the first 26 episodes. Guests include cutting-edge scientists and ...

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Doris Duke Grant Makes Community-Centered Production of 'Dreamgirls' Possible

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08/02/2016

... production. To that end, members of SITI Company spent the first quarter of 2015 leading a workshop series on Saturday ...

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