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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... ($24.5 million) grant from the Simons Foundation in support of pioneering studies into the biological mechanisms ... of DNA changes known to cause autism and investigate how variations in the wiring of the...

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Health

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JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million

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05/11/2017

... The firm has been able to accelerate its investment to support Detroit’s recovery due to strong collaboration ... in the city. "Detroit’s resurgence is a model for what can be accomplished when leaders...

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Community Development

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... participants into the mission by eliciting their ideas on how the nonprofit can solve a thorny problem or better achieve its goals. ...

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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

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11/28/2017

... savings, to credit accessibility—should be designed for how real people act, using insights from behavioral science. ... of the partnership between ideas42 and MetLife Foundation can support...

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Economic Security

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UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/02/2019

... has awarded a two-year grant of $350,000 to UCLA to support a pilot project designed to reframe how Middle Eastern studies are conceptualized and taught. The ... models on the Middle East and North Africa...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

08 Jun 2016

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network: Building Relationships - Managing Up

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 -

8:30am to 10:30am

... relationship while exercising effective communication can be challenging. In particular, providing feedback to ... relationships with their staff as well as accessing resources that provide guidance and...

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Executive Support Staff

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HR & Operations

25 Apr 2022

Risk, Reward, and the Reality: What Don't We Know About Intermediaries?

Monday, April 25, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... and approaches funders are adopting at this time to support the change we want to see. Learn about the challenges ... The role(s) that intermediaries play and the risks they take on Challenges intermediaries...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

... order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations ... and North Korea will be banned from entering the United States , Mr. Trump said in a...

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Immigration

A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

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07/22/2019

... to suppress "free radical" molecules in the body that can age cells as a response to stress. These destructive free ... suggesting a need for scientists to better understand how and why it is...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

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Ford Foundation

Chosen by Librarians, 2016 Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Announced

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01/12/2016

... of family, a beloved Virginia farm, and the why and how of making art, revealing in the process the deep ... as the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence illustrate how today's librarians are an...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Arts

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Six Nuclear Security Programs Win Major Grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York

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10/29/2015

... that developed forward-thinking approaches to studying how breakthrough technologies are increasing nuclear ... university research centers and think tanks in the United States and Europe submitted proposals,...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Technology

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

01 May 2020

COVID-19 Weekly PNY Member Webinar - Sustainability & Survivability of the Nonprofit Community

Friday, May 1, 2020 -

2:30pm to 3:30pm

... depends on the large nonprofits that house the homeless, support foster care youth, ensure the health of our seniors, ... during the pandemic, and are in need of government support to weather this storm...

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16 May 2012

Understanding the Rules of Engagement: Advocacy in an Election Season

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... grant making objectives. The question then becomes: how does one provide sufficient protection to the grantmaker ... in an election year and how funders and their grantees can best (and...

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10 Mar 2022

Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Where Crisis, Conflict, Climate and COVID-19 meet - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 2:00pm

... With so many different humanitarian emergencies happening, how can funders know whether, where and how to focus their ... surrounding them Ways to determine how to best...

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Environment and Climate Change

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William T. Grant Foundation Names Ten William T. Grant Scholars Finalists

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12/12/2018

... said of the finalists, “the goal of this program is to support promising early-career researchers, and these ten ... are nominated by their institutions and only one applicant can be named from any one major...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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Community-Based Organizations Across The U.S. Receive $10 Million Through The Citi Foundation And LISC

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02/20/2019

... LISC The Citi Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) today announced the 40 ... courses (to strengthen math and reading skills), and resources to help job seekers secure child care and...

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Community Development

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09 Nov 2021

Social Impact Exchange 2021: The Systems Summit 2021

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 11:30am to Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 4:00pm

... multi-sector leaders to come together to learn and discuss how to transform systems and address root causes that impede ... income inequality, and multi-sector collaboration that can lead to systemic change...

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19 Apr 2012

Extend Your Grantmaking Effectiveness by Funding Policy and Community Engagement

Thursday, April 19, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Learn how foundations can best utilize limited dollars and maximize the impact of ... report shows how 110 nonprofit organizations, from 13 states , over a 5-year period, brought...

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Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program

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01/24/2018

... (Saturday and Sunday) of every month in 2018, so they can experience more than 200 of the country’s most ... prominent cultural institutions across 123 cities in 35 states . “Our Museums on Us program aims to...

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