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NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative

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05/16/2016

... The New York City Council and philanthropic partners will also invest $20 million in the Young Women’s ... policy experts and young women themselves – to inform how the City can transform the lives of young...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

Release Date:

08/25/2016

... at Montclair State University in suburban North Jersey will launch a local/national news partnership project that will show community sites in Jersey how , for example, they can produce the...

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13 Dec 2016

School Discipline, Pushout and Gender Norms

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

As we look at how to improve high school graduation rates and outcomes, ... – suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, among others How school discipline disproportionately affects girls of ... teen parents and LGBT...

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09 Mar 2017

Equity, Inclusion, and Connecting with Community in Family Philanthropy - Webinar

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... only.* What does inclusivity mean for family philanthropy? How can we promote diversity, community engagement, and ... the family focus of our giving practices? This session will feature a conversation on...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and you can transport it elsewhere. If everyone did that, there would be a...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

Release Date:

01/27/2017

... civil war. But rebel Aleppo didn’t just fall— it fell hard. Rebels had braced themselves, even under siege ... what happened. What they take away from the loss of Aleppo will likely determine how...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It For decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the ... In the city's new resilience district, with projects that will break ground later...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

Release Date:

04/03/2017

... inflammatory bowel diseases in Asia. The three-year grants will support researchers affiliated with the ENIGMA (Eastern ... populations, the consortium hopes to better understand how environmental factors...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

Release Date:

04/04/2017

... foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What lessons can it offer? The Fund’s founding brothers represented an ...

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... by the way some of our grantee partners were changing how they saw the people they serve, who are commonly seen as ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

... the capital and making more grants later — but how would we know, asks a report from the Atlantic ...

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

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05/11/2017

... $150 Million JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced that it will expand the firm's commitment to Detroit’s economic ... will see Detroit’s comeback as a shining example of how...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

Release Date:

05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women ... by body armor, camouflage face paint and smoke grenades, it was almost impossible to...

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Gender Justice

A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems

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05/30/2017

... — open a cell biology textbook and almost everything you will find has been discovered in yeast or E. coli lab ... to fill this gap by discovering the principles of how microbial communities form and function...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

... Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing When it comes to bank philanthropy, the biggest story over the ... whether or not a low-income family finds housing, or how prosperous a neighborhood will...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a ...

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

Release Date:

06/27/2017

... issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are college-ready and ... CUF is set to release a report in the next few weeks that will describe the key...

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... equitable neighborhoods and communities — and learning how to turn ideals into outcomes. PLACES Fellows: ▪ Are ...

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

Release Date:

08/01/2017

... Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism Sometimes it ’s the smaller foundations that take on the most ... are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the philanthropic or NGO sectors...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

Release Date:

08/09/2017

... Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. He hopes these small tasks will be a foundation for a future career. Carpenter is one in ...

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