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Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

Release Date:

05/12/2015

... Staten Island’s approximately 500,000 residents have access to comparatively fewer public services, yet ... extraordinary results for our community. Along the way , we are slowly overturning some long-held...

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The Staten Island Foundation

Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

Release Date:

09/24/2014

... more than 3 billion of the world's 7.2 billion people will have Internet access. Two billion of those people will be in developing countries, which means writers have an increasing audience of readers...

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

Release Date:

01/07/2015

... to the Pew Research Center, 84% of low-income adults have access to a mobile phone and 1 in 3 mobile phone owners have used their phone to look up health information.... Aetna ...

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Simons-Funded Study Finds Connection Between Genes That Contribute to Autism

Release Date:

03/11/2015

... Between Genes That Contribute to Autism Recent studies have identified several dozen genes potentially associated ... inactivates the corresponding protein, are very likely to have an autism diagnosis. CHD8 is...

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The Simons Foundation

The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

Publication date:

10/2015

... behaves. Over the course of our exploration we have become convinced not only that a positive internal ... is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, habitually neglected this important ...

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Report

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

Release Date:

10/22/2015

... Source has Changed Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this ... the interactive maps that show how immigrant sources have changed over the century. . . Carnegie:...

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Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

05/05/2016

... to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the 19th century — but it’s an ... US. It’s also an idea that, at least in theory, should have appeal across the political spectrum...

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What Big (and not-so-big) Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style

Release Date:

05/23/2016

... Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style If you have been in the nonprofit sector long enough, you may have ... a dramatic shift in the connection between donors and their...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Research to Prevent Blindness- Backed Study Uncovers Major Cause of Vision Loss

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a pathway involved in harming rods and cones and have found a way to halt that damage. Targeting the pathway with...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

Release Date:

06/20/2017

... “Exciting because we're going to be our own bosses we have our own business and we're going to run it the way we've decided.” Edith Lopez is one of 6 women who have been...

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Gender Justice

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The Staten Island Foundation

New Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

Release Date:

02/21/2018

... There’s a lot of work being done to help people who have served time in prison, to build a life when they get ... to use the skills they already have and transform the way they think about...

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Video

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

Full Implementation of OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs in New York State and City

... services on behalf of governments. Nonprofits that have previously negotiated a federal indirect cost rate must be paid using that rate. Nonprofits that have never had a federally approved indirect cost rate...

Luce Foundation Makes $3M in Emergency Grants to Support Communities and Organizations Affected by COVID-19

Release Date:

05/12/2020

... to be recognized in the US, Henry Luce Foundation staff have worked closely with colleagues, partners, and grantees ... in the Southwest— have seen high rates of infection on their tribal...

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The Henry Luce Foundation

Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role

Release Date:

02/14/2017

... personal networks - for example, how it is that when you have Philanthropy or Foundation after your name and title, ... with different colleagues/teams. The facilitators shared their experiences of managing...

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Citi Foundation

Century Foundation Quoted in Article on School Desegregation Lawsuit

Release Date:

01/27/2016

... a quality education, he and his wife were able to send their two oldest daughters—who are now in college—to ... Cities attend more racially segregated schools than they have in a generation. Children who...

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New York Life Foundation Invests in Expanding Access to Summer and Afterschool Learning

Release Date:

04/23/2019

... skills of middle school students. BellXcel programs have been proven to yield measurable gains in academics and ... time space aligns with our efforts to ensure that youth have year-round holistic learning...

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Simons Foundation is Accepting Application for Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians

Release Date:

10/23/2019

... mathematicians in the United States, who do not otherwise have access to funding that allows support for travel and ... and on the likely impact the collaboration grant will have on future research, both for...

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Simons Foundation

Jennifer Correa Joins The Pinkerton Foundation as Associate Program Officer

Release Date:

01/02/2012

... enters the field recognizing the impact philanthropy can have in the field of STEM education and youth development. ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

Release Date:

01/07/2016

... began the trajectory to suspension when a warning would have sufficed. The award-winning actress and playwright ... the past 30 years, growing numbers of children and youth have been excluded from school for...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

Release Date:

03/17/2016

... refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in ... the lives of transgender people worldwide, some might have wondered: is such an audacious...

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NoVo Foundation

Arcus Foundation

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