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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Habitat for Humanity Worcester County Build

Release Date:

10/26/2018

Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County has received a grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation for its upcoming single-family home build in Bishopville, this fall.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color

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10/26/2018

Many Heliconius butterflies have wing patterns and colors that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators, and new research by scientists from the University of Chicago, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, shows that in one...

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Westchester Community Foundation Awards Grant to Green Business Partnership

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12/14/2018

... business community to advance sustainable solutions that will make our community more resilient. We’re so pleased to ...

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William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

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06/05/2019

... program, teams of four to six scholars in any discipline will be awarded up to $350,000 over five years in support of ... new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Scholars also will receive career...

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Riverside Park Conservancy Receives Grant for Park Management Technology from Booth Ferris Foundation

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08/08/2019

... for park management technology. The Booth Ferris grant will help fund the project management software purchase and setup for better management of the park, which will help sustain a real time overview of park...

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Aisha Moodie-Mills Joins Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Board of Directors

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10/16/2019

... that social change doesn’t simply trickle down, it must be sparked from the ground up. The Foundation is a ... Brooklyn home, her strategic insight and thoughtful voice will be terrific additions to our...

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22 Oct 2020

Lunch Discussion on the State of Youth Service Providers During COVID-19

Thursday, October 22, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... members of the Neighborhood Family Services Roundtable will share what is happening to youth service providers ... proposed changes in budgets, legislation and policy that will impact community-based services...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Relief Initiative to Help Alleviate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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04/08/2020

... working closely with grantee partners around the world, will focus both immediately and in the long term on some of ... that combating the virus effectively at the global scale will require both new vaccines...

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Urging the U.S. Senate to Pass the America Gives More Act

... bill would make the IRA charitable rollover permanent law. It would simplify the private foundation excise tax on net ... year. These are all important legislative proposals that will improve our nation’s tax...

Kimberly Roberts

... Although a proud native New Yorker, she has spent much time abroad as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working as a ...

Ira R. Halperin Named Vice Chair to Long Island Community Foundation Board

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02/01/2012

... CPA, and lawyer, having him serve as our Vice Chair will propel our organization forward and help us effectively ... an excellent way to give back to a community that means so much to me.” Halperin heads the...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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12 Mar 2014

What Philanthropy Can Do To Help Reduce Poverty in America Today

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty has inspired much national soul-searching on what has been accomplished ... United States and what philanthropy can do to help address it now and into the future. Explore...

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Private Citizen Bloomberg on Philanthropy

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04/25/2014

When it comes to giving away his fortune, Michael R. Bloomberg, ... the amount of money that government spends,” he said. “ It ’s trillions of dollars. Private philanthropy can’t do ... was a hallmark of Mr...

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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... In his own email, Greer wrote: "In recent months, it became clear that my vision and the Board’s vision for ... the Foundation had diverged. Despite our agreement around much of the substance of the...

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Bipartisan Report Warns of Extreme Threat to Economy From Global Warming

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06/24/2014

... Entire states in the Southeast and the Corn Belt may lose much of their agriculture as farming shifts northward in a warming world. Heat and humidity will probably grow so intense that spending time outside...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack

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04/14/2015

... Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack Dan Osheyack will be leaving and beginning his retirement from Time Warner ... collaborations we share. As you can well imagine, it is a challenge to summarize Dan...

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Carnegie Corporation Trustee Louise Richardson Named Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

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05/29/2015

... first woman ever to occupy this leadership role, which she will assume on January 1, 2016. She is currently the ... during an exciting time for higher education. I am very much looking forward to working with...

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Life and Work of Robert Rauschenberg Profiled in NYTimes

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06/04/2015

... be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” Much of what MacLear and Snyder encounter falls into that ... sculptures and other three-dimensional works, although it was nowhere apparent which ones. On...

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