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Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program

Release Date:

09/29/2017

Recently, Dawn Brooks DeCosta, the principal of a traditional elementary school in Harlem, was looking for a way to boost her students’ social and emotional skills. Her search led her to an unlikely event: a charter school assembly.

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Education

JPMorgan Chase Releases New Data Platform, The Good Jobs Index

Release Date:

11/14/2017

The Good Jobs Index is a new data platform that provides a window into the shifting realities of employment opportunity in the US, including the finding that two-thirds of states have added good jobs for workers without a bachelor’s degree.

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Workforce Development

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Sloan Digital Sky Survey Will Map The Entire Sky

Release Date:

11/20/2017

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

Release Date:

03/07/2018

The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high...

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Health

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Rita Allen Foundation

Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Critical Path Institute a Grant to Focus on Crohn's disease

Release Date:

04/16/2018

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) a grant to support a Crohn's disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will identify unmet needs for the use of biomarkers in developing new...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Arcus Foundation Funds a New Partnership to Reduce Poverty and to Protect the Endangered Bonobo Population In the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Release Date:

05/21/2018

Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation announced a new partnership funded by the Arcus Foundation to reduce poverty and to protect the endangered Bonobo population in the biodiverse Lomako region of the Democratic Republic of the...

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Dodge Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to New Jersey Nonprofits

Release Date:

08/13/2018

The foundation awarded forty-five grants totaling nearly $1.6 million through its Arts focus area, including a grant of $230,000 to Creative New Jersey , which works to foster creativity, cross-sector collaboration, and inclusion as a way to build...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Andy Warhol Foundation Board Names Julián Zugazagoitia Chair, Adds Three Members

Release Date:

10/23/2018

... has grown 43%. Known for his high-energy leadership and collaborative spirit, Zugazagoitia previously served as ...

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Arts

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Support From JPMorgan Chase and Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Aids Launch of Hudson County Workforce Leadership Academy

Release Date:

04/19/2019

Hudson County Community College (HCCC) announced today that it will be sponsoring a Workforce Leadership Academy, a program designed to develop a local network of workforce development leaders to collaborate on solutions to common challenges.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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

Release Date:

05/27/2019

The neurodevelopmental condition can result from mutations in the noncoding regions of the human genome, new research demonstrates for the first time.

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09 Sep 2019

Election Series: Navigating Effective Nonpartisan Election-Year Grantmaking - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, September 9, 2019 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Properly understood, IRS rules allow foundations —both private and public— to legally support almost every type of advocacy. Foundations have a great deal of flexibility in election-year grantmaking but it is important to know what is legal,...

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Civic Engagement

Using Data to Save Lives: The Rockefeller Foundation and Partners Launch $100 Million Precision Public Health Initiative

Release Date:

09/25/2019

Initiative Aims to Prevent 6 Million Deaths by 2030. Brings Data Science and Machine Learning to Community Health Systems and Frontline Workers.

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Health

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

Release Date:

02/14/2020

... W. Mellon Foundation . The four-year grant will support collaborative work between centers of race and ethnicity at ...

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Mellon Foundation

Redlich Horwitz Foundation Announces COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund to Support Virtual Family-Driven Care in New York State

Release Date:

04/07/2020

The Redlich Horwitz Foundation will provide grants of up to $40,000 to governmental and non-governmental organizations who serve children in foster care, in New York State, outside of New York City.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

Westchester Community Foundation Awards Grants for Workforce Development

Release Date:

05/28/2020

... Community Foundation. The Westchester Workforce Funders Collaborative is a pooled fund at the Foundation that works ...

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Westchester Community Fund

Grantmakers in Aging Announces Lindsay A. Goldman as New CEO

Release Date:

10/19/2020

At the 2020 GIA Annual Conference, Board Chair Rani Snyder announced that Lindsay A. Goldman will become the next Chief Executive Officer of GIA, effective January 1, 2021.

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Grantmakers in Aging

Weinberg Foundation Announces Additional $5 Million to Expand and Strengthen Baltimore Library Project

Release Date:

12/10/2020

... 2023. The Baltimore Library Project is a multi-year collaborative effort among the Weinberg Foundation, the State ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

03 Mar 2021

DACA—Seizing the Moment - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 -

9:00am to 10:00am

Join GCIR and United We Dream for a discussion on what it will take to ensure there is a national service and organizing infrastructure in place to respond to new and expanded DACA opportunities.

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Immigration

Social Justice

02 Dec 2021

Fair Representation in Redistricting Briefing - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Thursday, December 2, 2021 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Please join Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR) for a funder briefing during which we will share progress and insights on community engagement in the redistricting efforts underway and the roles funders can play in centering communities in...