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05 Oct 2021

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... conversations to explore the guiding question, “ How can we be explicitly responsive to the needs of the arts ... brief presentations, breakout discussions, and takeaway resources . Registration 10:00 - 11:30...

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18 Jun 2018

No Place Like Home: Responding to the Unique Needs of Homeless Children and Their Families

Monday, June 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... being homeless as adults. For example, New York City’ s homeless children struggle to get to school with over half ... of homeless children and their families. We will explore how coordinated, collaborative...

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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

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11/13/2018

... of local Cinchona plantations. In Jules Verne’ s 1874 fantasy novel The Mysterious Island, the sulfate of ... saves the life of one of the main characters turns out to be a gift from the reclusive Captain Nemo...

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Mellon Foundation

Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

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05/14/2019

... vertebrate animals including monkeys, birds and fish have demonstrated the ability to use transitive inference. ... enable them to succeed where honeybees had failed. To find out , Tibbetts and her colleagues...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards

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09/23/2021

... must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. They must have carried out research in a tenure-track or, for institutions that do ... no tenure track, an equivalent independent position in a U. S ...

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10 Sep 2012

The 2012 Election with MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Power Tools to Build a Better Democracy

Monday, September 10, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... be leading a dynamic discussion focusing on philanthropy’ s role in enabling all U. S . citizens to engage more deeply in the information they need to participate in democracy. How can...

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22 Apr 2022

Exploring the Impact of Environmental and Social Justice Youth Programming

Friday, April 22, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... challenges of our time. Join us for a discussion on how nonprofit organizations are advancing environmental and ... STEAM programming, SEL growth, and education outcomes How STEAM youth programming fosters...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy

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06/17/2014

... is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and ... resilient communities. In a post on the foundation’ s website, Amy Kenyon, program officer for the...

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Ford Foundation

Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... organizations are seeking to get them thinking about how to channel their money and other assets into ... about emergency appeals for aid. So far this year, donors have used iPhones to make 1,800 grants to...

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PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care

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10/30/2014

... as they head into their not-so-golden years. But how often do you think of the shaky ground that many older ... even though research shows these are some of the nation' s most isolated seniors...

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The New York Community Trust

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Fusion OpEd Makes Case for New York Times Buying Bloomberg

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06/15/2015

... problem most of us can barely dream of. Namely, how will he fulfil his commitment to give away his $37bn fortune before he dies? It’ s harder than it looks. One possible solution might be for ... in perpetuity...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names Second Class of Doris Duke Impact Award Recipients

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06/16/2015

... identifying others (often less widely known) that will have enormous impact on the jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’ s group is a thrilling one: we are honored to support them and look...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... This is embarrassing to admit, knowing what I know now. How could I have not been a feminist? But this truth is all too common ...

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Gender Justice

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EPIP Welcomes Tamir Novotny as Incoming Executive Director

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10/27/2015

... EPIP. As a member of the EPIP family, I've seen firsthand how powerful EPIP can be for its members and for the field. I ... for the Northeast chapters. He has contributed to EPIP’ s national programming,...

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’ s Struggling Newspaper of Record “If newspapers are ... having trouble turning a profit without deep annual cuts, how about becoming a nonprofit?” That...

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Communications/Media

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy' s Philamplify initiative found. The Trust is the ... in the U. S . The foundation' s grantmaking and initiatives have...

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The New York Community Trust

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... to meet the demands of increasingly picky readers? There have been several partnerships going back to the previous ... print-digital The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’ s BH Media Group) that serves...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... for proteins. Two big questions facing scientists are: How much of this “non-coding” RNA is actually functional? ... are long non-coding RNAs, or lncRNAs. About 16,000 lncRNAs have been identified in humans,...

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump' s Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed The 2016 ... of his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of...

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