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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Kimberly Roberts

... through education and advocacy. Although a proud native New Yorker, she has spent much time abroad as a U.S. Peace ... Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment at the New School where she worked on...

Save the Date: Philanthropy Week in Washington 2014

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01/15/2014

... , is a week of activities -- some familiar and others new -- themed around engaging policymakers in our nation's ... Reform (ACR) Summit for Leaders (March 5) , and other new Washington D.C.-based events...

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Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

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03/03/2015

... These policy and programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for Change, which provides ... boys and men of color, this past year represented a new , critical chapter in our work,...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Community Development

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Open Society Foundations

06 May 2015

Executive Assistants Network - Tech Trends

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... staff . Technology is always evolving, whether it’s a new program or updated software— new becomes old fairly quickly. Come and learn from your ...

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Executive Support Staff

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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... of color not an equal priority? The fact is that few new philanthropic efforts are aimed specifically at improving ... Foundation’s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers for Girls of...

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NoVo Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights

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12/15/2015

... that will receive $100,000 collectively through its new Neighborhood Strength initiative. Grants range from ... first resident-led grantmaking program designed to build a new model that brings together...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Justice Reform

Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

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01/06/2016

... may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the ... University engaged groups of influential students in 56 New Jersey middle schools to spread...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Russell Sage Foundation

Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

... the media. The goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts and culture that reflects the ... Bomb, a website dedicated to sustaining the visual arts in New Orleans. These writers,...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

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02/17/2016

... technology. The latest grants were awarded to the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute in support ... for technologists in the public and nonprofit sectors; the New Venture Fund's Media...

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Technology

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Revson Foundation Supports Steinem Program to Address Underrepresentation of Women In Media & Technology

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03/28/2016

... sounding board she never had through the university’s new Gloria Steinem Media Mentoring Program. The program ... the creative and complex ways information technology and new media are reshaping culture and...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

Gender Justice

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Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline

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02/02/2017

... Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries will not grant new financing for greenfield thermal coal mining and new coal-fired plant construction . Additionally, the bank ...

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PhilTV This Week: March 3, 2017

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03/03/2017

... Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? Name A New Kind of Funder Action Meeting PhilTV This Week: March 3, ...

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and collaboration between ... and movement organizations Seeding experiments in building new structures and systems to propel us...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

... funders have spent many millions of dollars supporting new teacher preparation programs and trying to strengthen existing ones. A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) ...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... Bard Prison Initiative. Now Bard College is launching a new satellite in another site that bucks tradition: the ... punchline is something about a captive audience.” The new microcollege is modeled on the...

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Mellon Foundation

15 Mar 2018

Imagining the Future: Pursuing Excellence in Family Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, March 15, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... only.* We invite you to participate in an exciting new program. NCFP is using the opportunity of this ... landscape, how do you see the field changing? What new tools, strategies and collaborative initiatives...

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Tools & Strategies

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Family Foundation

Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

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12/18/2017

... revolution. This will be a year of reckoning, the year a new wave of diverse news leaders shapes American journalism ... with the audience. The departures open the door for a new wave of women news leaders to...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... bound to a morphine derivative. They then created a new drug-like compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes ...

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