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MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa

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11/07/2014

... “We welcome this new initiative because it will enable us to deal with the critical challenges facing farmers in ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

William T. Grant Foundation-Funded Study Examines the Consequences of Childhood Bullying

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05/01/2015

The study explores the impact bullying on mental health in adulthood.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

As part of its College Completion report series, Robert Shireman, senior fellow at The Century Foundation, writes about the state of college education, including improved focus on learning as opposed to drop out rates, and what can be done to remedy...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders

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04/25/2016

... of philanthropy, from ‘them’ and ‘they’ to ‘ us ’ and ‘we.’ ” The roster of political and business ...

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Mellon Foundation Supports First App Launched by Museum of the City of New York

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03/06/2017

The Museum of the City of New York launches its first-ever app, A Walk Through Gilded New York , a digital companion to the critically acclaimed exhibition Gilded New York.

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Arts

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

Women for Afghan Women (WAW), which describes itself as a “grassroots, civil society organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York,” has backing from NY foundations...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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Supported in Part by Ford Foundation, Smithsonian Launches American Women’s History Initiative

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11/14/2018

The initiative strives to be the nation’s most comprehensive undertaking to document, research, collect, display and share the rich, complete and compelling story of women in America. It will greatly increase the Smithsonian’s research and...

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Gender Justice

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Wallace Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Say Yes to Education

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10/29/2013

The grant will support Say Yes to Education’s efforts to boost high school and college graduation rates in Buffalo.

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Co-Impact Announces Inaugural Grants Totaling $80 Million

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01/16/2019

... South Asia, and Latin America. The grants total more than US $80 million. This is the first set of grants delivered by ... in late 2017 by Olivia Leland, founding director of The Giving Pledge, and partners...

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Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds, Inc.

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Dorothy Q. Thomas Named Interim CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women

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08/22/2013

The Ms. Foundation for Women has announced that Dorothy Q. Thomas will assume the role of Interim President and CEO, effective September 3, 2013, while a search for the Foundation’s permanent President and CEO is under way. Thomas will succeed Anika...

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Gender Justice

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Newman's Own Tax Break Matters Far Beyond Just One Foundation

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11/27/2017

... Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.), could spare another 20 to 30 foundations that would face a similar fate in the future.. . ...

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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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Children, Youth and Families

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Open Society Foundations Announce New Director of Foreign Policy Advocacy

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09/04/2019

Open Society Foundations Announce New Director of Foreign Policy Advocacy WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce that Sarah Margon will lead the Foundations ’ work...

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Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud

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04/12/2017

Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform.

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Science

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Research Co-Sponsored by The JPB Foundation Examines Quality of Abortion Care

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03/16/2018

The quality of abortion care depends on where a woman lives, says one of most comprehensive reviews of research on safety and quality of abortion care in the U.S.

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Health

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Weinberg Foundation Names Jonathan D. Hook Their First Chief Investment Officer

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04/17/2014

... Jeanette Weinberg Foundation , one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Jonathan D. Hook ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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From the Macy Foundation: AAMC’s Marc Nivet On Developing LGBTI Competencies

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05/31/2012

... at many levels engaged in the development of tools and resources to guide educational interventions to improve care ... them with a set of peer reviewed teaching and assessment resources to be housed in...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Kevin Burke to Board of Trustees

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06/04/2012

... Club of New York, the Edison Electric Institute, Honeywell International , Inc., the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York ...

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