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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

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10/27/2017

By funding the library system's surprisingly costly amnesty program, JPB calls to light a problematic and age-old obstacle to public library engagement: library fines.

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Rita Allen Foundation Supported Report Finds That Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains

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10/31/2017

... has found that while civic tech is a growth industry, it is one largely filled with organizations struggling to ...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

... in favor of supporting program-related efforts. In 2016, it committed $1 billion toward helping up to 300 nonprofits ... into fund-related investments. In 2017, Ford pledged that it would deploy $1 billion of...

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Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation Award 16 Jewish Camps With Grants to Increase Accessibility

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04/01/2019

... physical and sensory disabilities. The grants will go for capital improvements, professional development, ... to independently raise 25 percent of the project’s cost before applying. They will...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Christine Rhee Joins the Wallace Foundation

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12/11/2013

Christine Rhee has joined the Wallace Foundation as Program Officer for the Arts.

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Report Details Employment Challenges Facing Latino Youth

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06/13/2014

A study supported by the Rockefeller Foundation finds that Latinos, the youngest and fastest-growing segment of the American labor force, face considerable challenges gaining stable employment.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Confidence Index Finds that National Debt is Top Priority for Voters

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09/30/2014

... to address America’s fiscal challenges, shows that Americans remain highly concerned about the country’s ... Confidence Index, is 41 (100 is neutral), indicating Americans want to see more action from their...

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Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America

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09/01/2015

... Give A Meal, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will give $2 more, up to $1.5 million – giving donors the ... banks, supporting our efforts to stabilize the lives of Americans struggling with hunger,...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

... Student presentations took place on Sunday morning. It was moving to see these Brooklyn youth come together in ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050 A study published today by researchers at ... to double over the next 35 years. By 2050, the number of Americans with a variety of...

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

Featuring NY Community Trust, UJA-Federation of New York, MAC AIDS Fund, The Search for PNY's Next Public Policy Fellow.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... as a young heiress and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign ...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

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10/10/2017

... a simplified tax code would be a welcome change for many Americans , I join many of our nonprofit colleagues in ... why: The proposed reforms would shrink the number of Americans who claim the itemized...

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

The honor recognizes Tschinkel’s mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory.

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Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Supports College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #RealCollege Survey Report

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05/16/2019

... Overall rates of food insecurity were higher among African Americans (58 percent) and Latinx (50 percent) than among ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees

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06/20/2019

... of the US Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities, Bristo worked to draft and win passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. More recently, while ... Rights of People with...

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Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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07/31/2019

... for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, will retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the end ... that provide a liberal arts education to incarcerated Americans and that help the...

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Releases a Research and Policy In Brief, Mass Shootings: Causes and Prevention

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04/21/2021

In the week this research synthesis was released by HFG, CNN reported that 45 mass shootings had occurred in the U.S. in the previous month.

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