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Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds

Release Date:

04/28/2016

... The report, Social Justice and Sustainable Change: The Impact of Higher Education (36 pages, PDF), evaluated the impact of the International Fellowships Program, which ...

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

Release Date:

05/16/2016

... project to shine light on economic forces that severely impact the financial security of American families. The Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC) is an unparalleled effort to ...

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

MetLife

New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

Release Date:

11/04/2016

... As interest in measuring and understanding the impact of arts investments in community development continues ... of what can and can't be learned from different impact -measurement approaches. Commissioned...

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Arts

28 Jun 2012

Effective Education Reform: Partnering with Teachers

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Black Male Donor Collaborative, 333 Seventh Ave. 13th Floor, NYC

How can youth and parents successfully organize for school change without teacher allies? Join us for a conversation about the critical role progressive teachers play in grassroots education reform in New York City. The National Economic &...

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08 May 2014

Community Food Funders Annual Gathering

Thursday, May 8, 2014 -

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Please join us to celebrate another year of organizing funders to transform our regional food system! Gather with colleagues for a relaxed evening featuring locally-sourced bites, wine and brews, networking and brief updates on CFF's work, and...

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Food Systems

Laboratory Announces $50 Million Gift To Establish Simons Center for Quantitative Biology

Release Date:

07/07/2014

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has announced a $50 million gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons to establish the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology.

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Education

Health

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The Simons Foundation

$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

Release Date:

09/02/2015

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the University of Pennsylvania a $2 million grant to support University initiatives in the digital humanities in both Penn Arts & Sciences and Penn Libraries.

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Ford, Citi and MasterCard Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality

Release Date:

09/28/2015

These organizations pledged support during the UN Women summit.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Citi [Corporate]

MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

Release Date:

03/17/2016

Does philanthropy really have a useful role to play in transformative social movements?

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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NoVo Foundation

Arcus Foundation

NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative

Release Date:

05/16/2016

Over 100 recommendations and $20 million to combat gender-based inequality in health, education, ant-violence, economic opportunity and self-sufficiency.

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation

Can Pope Francis Get Colombia to Reconcile After Decades of War?

Release Date:

09/08/2017

Cheering crowds greeted the 80-year-old Argentine pontiff as he prayed for the country to heal the wounds of war — though some warned that forgiveness was hard after so much violence.

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International/Foreign Affairs

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

Release Date:

09/14/2017

In New York’s most troubled neighborhoods, Service Year members are teaching their neighbors environmental sustainability — all the while learning essential job skills for the workforce.

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Children, Youth and Families

Workforce Development

LDN Fund Officially Launched

Release Date:

09/22/2017

The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.

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Environment and Climate Change

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