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Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile

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05/12/2016

... Simons Foundation has given $38.4 million to establish a new astronomy facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert, adding new telescopes and new detectors to existing instruments in order to boost ...

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Science

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Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships

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12/02/2016

... communications professional Carrie Fox to form a new consulting practice geared toward helping nonprofits form ... more productive relationships with corporations. The new company will officially launch Jan. 1...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... given $100 million to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year's end, describes philanthropy as ... spoke with Tisch about her recent donation to a new fund, her investment philosophy, and...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education

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09/29/2017

... collaboration. Labor shortages and skill gaps in New Hampshire have limited overall growth and the state’s ... and other costs and business climate factors contribute to New Hampshire’s business outlook and...

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Economic Security

Education

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To Bolster Support for the Arts, Move Hearts and Minds

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11/10/2015

... Move Hearts and Minds By Salem Tsegaye, Program Associate, New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Peterson: With Primaries Near, Majority Of Voters Want Leaders To Focus On Fiscal Future

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01/26/2016

... in recent years. "As voting and caucusing begins in the 2016 election, Americans understand that getting our fiscal .....

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy

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09/29/2016

Joseph A. Antolin, Executive Director of the Asset Funders Network, highlights a strategy that works with the formerly incarcerated to become entrepreneurs.

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08 Dec 2016

Trends in Family Philanthropy: A Conversation with NCFP Fellows Katherine Lorenz and Doug Bitonti-Stewart - Webinar

Thursday, December 8, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* As 2016 comes to a close, we invite you to participate in a ...

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09 Jan 2017

David vs. Goliath: How Arizona Advocates Won Victories in the Fight Against Extremism - Webinar

Monday, January 9, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Despite a 2016 election season which saw the rise of xenophobic ...

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Patrick Gaspard Named President of the Open Society Foundations

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12/14/2017

... the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016 . Prior to that, he was the executive director of the ...

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Opioid Crises Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium

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02/26/2018

... pill addict who died at the age of 86. Ohio in 2016 recorded the most drug-related overdose deaths of any ...

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Health

Social Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Surdna, Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation Sign Joint Statement Defending NEA Against Proposed Trump Budget

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03/01/2018

... states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In 2016 , the agency’s budget was approximately 0.004% of total ...

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Darren Walker Reflects on the Polling Results Released on the Coverage of Race in the News Media 50 Years Post-Kerner Commission

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03/06/2018

... employees are racial minorities—a minor decline from 2016 . Meanwhile, data from the Radio Television Digital ...

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Communications/Media

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02 Apr 2018

Holding off the Hackers, Defending Our Democracy - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, April 2, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... will be granted on a first come, first served basis.** In 2016 , the intelligence community sounded the alarm that our ...

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Report Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds That Post-Ebola Cataract Surgery Can Safely Restore Vision

Release Date:

04/04/2018

... of Ebola virus disease in West Africa from 2013 to 2016 , thousands of survivors were at risk for impaired vision ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... modern contraceptive method since the initiative began in 2016 . More than 34,000 women have participated in education ...

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Open Society Foundations to End Operations in Turkey

Release Date:

11/27/2018

... the alleged organizers of a failed coup attempt in July 2016 . In a speech last week, Erdogan linked the arrests to ...

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08 Jul 2021

Disaster Philanthropy and Native Americans: Practical Tips for Funding On and Off Reservations - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 2:00pm

... are greatly underfunded by philanthropy: From 2002 to 2016 , large U.S. foundations gave, on average, 0.4% of total ...

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19 Aug 2021

Disaster in a Crisis Zone: Understanding the Impact of Haiti’s Earthquake - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, August 19, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... An additional 140,000 are still displaced from 2016 ’s Hurricane Matthew. The COVID-19 pandemic – only ...

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