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Arcus Foundation's Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry

Release Date:

03/29/2018

... Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry Chocolate: We love it for so many reasons. Its taste. Its texture. Its ability ... of the Cote d’Ivoire’s forests from 2000 to 2014, it ’s like seeing a piece of green...

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Arcus Foundation

Mellon Grant Aims to Leverage Linked Data for Enhanced Information Access

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04/28/2016

... support library initiatives that develop and advance the use of linked open data. Stanford Libraries will coordinate a team representing Columbia, Cornell, ... Princeton to upgrade the current infrastructure...

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New Developments in Kidney Stem Cell Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust

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08/26/2016

... the holy grail of endless youthfulness–at least when it comes to one type of human kidney precursor cell. Previous ...

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

... said they have processes in place to find major donors but use them inconsistently. Only 39 percent of those ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research

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05/04/2018

... Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research The foundation will award grants of up to $600,000 over two or three years ... social, behavioral, and economic outcomes. To improve the use of research evidence, the...

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Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future of Philanthropy

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04/2013

... relatively small group of Generation Xers and Millennials will inherit over $40 trillion in wealth, much of that designated for philanthropy. In this ...

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The Charitable-Industrial Complex

Release Date:

08/26/2013

... Buffett, Co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation. I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and ...

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Andy Warhol Foundation to Exhibit Unseen Work, Increase Focus on Grantmaking

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01/04/2015

... auction. About 40 exhibitions of that artist’s work — much of it previously unseen by the public — will be flooding university art museums and institutions. ...

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MetLife Foundation and WSJ Team up for the Financial Inclusion Challenge

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03/26/2015

... always been laser focused on financial empowerment. So much so that last year, backed with a five-year, $200 million ...

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Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

Release Date:

04/05/2016

... the City University of New York’s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to much larger digs in a CUNY-owned building on the Upper West ... Allied Partners’ 50 West 40th Street near Bryant...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College CUNY

Former Bessemer Trust Board Chairman Dinny Phipps Remembered

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04/11/2016

... States, with an estimated worth of $6.6 billion in 2015. Much of that wealth came in managing Bessemer Trust, the private bank and investment advising firm it established in 1907. Phipps was chairman of the...

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

... local resident said she lived in fear and hid in shame for much of her life. But those feelings, she said, diminished ...

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Long Island Community Foundation

With Support from Sloan, Research Points to Mechanisms on Why 'Green' Helps in Urban Life

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08/02/2016

... vegetation in them, and asphalt-covered parking lots are much the same -- barren asphalt bombarded by solar radiation ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Partially Funded by Mertz Gilmore, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Announces 'World of Dance' Series

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08/05/2016

... by the prestigious Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, and the much -anticipated returns of the National Dance Theatre ...

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With the End Near, Atlantic Makes a Big Move on Racial Justice

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11/01/2016

... when Gara LaMarche was leading the foundation, he gave a much -discussed speech on race and philanthropy in 2008, in ...

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Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Supports Artists As Catalysts For Social Change

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02/08/2017

... gaining more currency across the arts philanthropy field, much to the detriment of evergreen institutions like the ...

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Anu Bhagwati of Service Women's Action Network Joined the Marines and Faced Daily Harassment

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05/07/2014

... New York's 35th annual meeting , Anu Bhagwati saw so much harassment during her service that she filed an .....

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Ford Foundation to Support Ongoing Work of Generation Indigenous Response Fund

Release Date:

02/21/2019

... Ongoing Work of Generation Indigenous Response Fund Native Americans in Philanthropy is proud to announce that it has received a $450,000 grant from Ford Foundation to ... youth on the Standing Rock Indian...