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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington and Martín Abregú as Program Vice Presidents

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09/05/2013

... under incoming president Darren Walker . Ms. Pennington will join the foundation on October 1, taking over an ... Director of Human Rights and Governance at the foundation, will begin in his new role on...

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06 Mar 2014

Freedom Summer - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, March 6, 2014 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

Ford Foundation

Emmy Award-winning director Stanley Nelson examines an often overlooked but essential chapter in the Civil Rights Movement: the 1964 interracial Freedom Summer campaign.

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Bloomberg Takes Public Innovation Initiative to Europe

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06/13/2014

... ($11.8 million) from his philanthropic foundation. “ It ’s about whether the garbage gets picked up and the kids ... “But then you look at something like energy and it ’s way ahead with things like windmills and...

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Advocacy Group Supporting NYC Pre-K Expansion Raised $1.76 Million

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07/15/2014

An advocacy group that helped NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for expanded pre-kindergarten received its largest donations from unions, a political action committee and the Rockefeller Family Fund.

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The Next Big Idea for the Next Decade: The Resilience Dividend

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08/21/2014

... As the world continues to change at a rapid pace, it is important to focus on building resiliency, writes ... of our lifetime, provoked by the three trends I believe will most shape the world for the next...

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Rauch Foundation Strives to Restore Long Island's Water

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10/08/2014

... All are being damaged by pollution, yet the political will to address the problem has been missing at the state level. It 's become customary in American politics to put off tough ... our rivers, lakes,...

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Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

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10/24/2014

... are still terrible and, if we unpack the numbers by race, it gets even worse. Caucasian youth have an unemployment rate ... of around 12 percent, while the share of young African Americans who can't find...

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Howard Gilman Foundation Appoints Anna Campbell to Program Officer

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01/06/2015

The Howard Gilman Foundation has named Anna Campbell as their new Program Officer.

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Citi Foundation Expands Summer Jobs Connect to New Cities

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03/05/2015

... Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans meeting hosted at the White House, the Citi ... New York City, and San Francisco, Summer Jobs Connect will support more than 2,000 jobs for young...

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Eighteen Cultural Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

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05/07/2015

... Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York. " It speaks well of these organizations' leaders that they have .....

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Social Innovation Fund Awards $11.3 Million Grant to LISC to Expand Education, Career Services for Low-Income Individuals

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08/04/2015

... As part of a vigorous new effort to help jobless Americans upgrade their reading and math skills to better ... (LISC), a national community development nonprofit. LISC will leverage the grant to expand a...

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Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

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11/16/2015

... as its director. The next set of advances in astronomy will require understanding complex multi-scale physics and ... Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board. The center will be based at the Simons Foundation...

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Kress and Mellon Support First Academic Art Museum and Library Summit

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12/09/2015

... Art Museum and Library Summit The University of Miami will host the inaugural Academic Art Museum and Library ... for deep intra-institutional collaboration. The Summit will focus on the ways that new...

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Century Foundation Quoted in Article on School Desegregation Lawsuit

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01/27/2016

... are now in college—to desegregated St. Paul schools. But it ’s become more difficult to find such schools in St. Paul ...

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Duke Foundation Gives $1.5M for Arts to Increase Understanding of Muslim Societies

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03/04/2016

... Bridges Program, eight nonprofit organizations in the U.S. will receive grants to plan and implement projects that ... four new plays focused on themes of Muslim heritage that will be performed in public...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

... puts them in great peril. The finalists, whose selection will be announced Tuesday, will attend a ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 24, where the winner will be announced. “They’re not...

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Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies

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03/28/2016

... was in a summer camp in a high-needs community in Boston. It is part of the reason that he became a school teacher. ... and even harder if you’re one of the one in seven young Americans who are out of school...

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09 Jun 2016

"The Trans List" - A Special Film Sneak Preview

Thursday, June 9, 2016 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

... transgender community is more visible than ever—yet many Americans struggle to understand what it means to be transgender. And as the community fights to ... on the transgender experience in the US. The...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Welcomes New Trustees to its Board

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07/15/2016

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has elected several new members to its board of trustees. Jennifer Nolan was elected to the board in March, and she is joined by Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Heather McGhee, Miranda Kaiser, and Wyatt Rockefeller, who were...

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New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana

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08/25/2016

... August 25, 2016 – New York Life announced today that it will donate $100,000 to aid flood relief efforts in ... rain fell in Louisiana, damaging more than 60,000 homes. It is estimated that...

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