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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... hard choices that are inevitably part of implementation. I was ready to continue my work on these and other Foundation ... Vice Presidents Maurine Knighton and Bill Dempsey will take over day to day...

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Independent Sector Names Sarah Kastelic 2014 American Express NGen Leadership Winner

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06/10/2014

... the charitable sector —in the life-changing work they take on daily," said Timothy J. McClimon, president of the .....

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Economic Security

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Critic Calls Grants Aligned With Government Programs "Crony Philanthropy"

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07/07/2014

Writing in Forbes, Howard Husock, vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, says that a $10 million commitment from UBS to help underserved students attain a college education is an example of corporate leaders using...

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UBS Financial Services Inc.

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Atlantic Seeks To Sustain Gains From Past Work As Grantmaking Nears Conclusion

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07/30/2014

As Atlantic Philanthropies moves closer to completing all its grantmaking by 2016, it also is taking steps "to effectively realise and sustain gains in the core issues and fields that we and our grantees have seeded and cultivated over time," says...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Laura Washington Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Director of Communications

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04/14/2015

... is hugely important in the academic and arts worlds. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the great ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind

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03/03/2016

... coast of Cape Cod -- teems with billions of herring that take over the region to spawn. The seasonal arrival of the ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Animal Welfare

Science

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Ford, Rockefeller Offer Templates for Guiding CEO Transitions at Big Foundations

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03/07/2017

In a relatively short period of time, there have been some high-level changes at important philanthropy organizations, leading to questions of both why this is occurring, and what’s involved today with managing a CEO or president transition at a...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ford Foundation

How Nathan Cummings and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Are Shifting Grantmaking in the Trump Era

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05/26/2017

The Trump administration has posed a unique challenge to the liberal, and even moderate, philanthropic community.

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

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06/30/2017

... luck. (Ragged Dick, in the Alger story named for him: “ I ’d like it if some rich man would adopt me, and give me ... That our widely imitated and yet idiosyncratic take on democracy has been built, and...

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Social Justice

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Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published

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07/26/2017

Current scientific research demonstrates that the first three years of a child’s life are the most important in terms of brain development. If we want children to start school prepared to learn, and to succeed, then we must support young children...

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Michael R. Bloomberg To Convene Heads Of State And CEOs At Inaugural Global Business Forum

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08/22/2017

... government leaders from all regions of the world. It will take place on Wednesday, September 20 th, 2017 in New York ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

Research partnerships between business and academia have been happening for decades, but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular driving some serious dollars to universities.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Education

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IBM Corporation

New Video From TCC Group: The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity

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10/13/2017

Melinda Fine introduces the article, "The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity" written with co-authors Jared Raynor, Jessica Mowles, and Deepti Sood from TCC Group.

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

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10/19/2017

On Thursday, the city’s three library systems — the New York Public Library, which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island; the Queens Library; and the Brooklyn Public Library — will forgive all fines for children 17 and under and unblock...

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