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Simons Foundation Invites LOIs for Significant Mathematical, Theoretical Studies

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08/24/2015

... Theoretical Studies The Simons Foundation’ s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites Letters ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

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08/27/2015

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia' s Justice-In-Education Initiative The seminar in 401 ... Hall focused on classic literary texts, including Homer’ s Odyssey, Shakespeare’ s...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

... over the next two weeks, the Migration Policy Institute’ s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy examines ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Issues RFP for Innovative Approaches to Peacekeeping

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09/15/2015

The joint Public-Private Partnership on Peacebuilding will provide grants of up to $1 million to one to three consortia to conduct projects involving a U.S., a Norwegian, and at least one Southern/emerging power partner.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fund much of the U. S . government’ s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of ... federal funding going to risk research. The report, U. S ...

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New York Botanical Garden Partners with MetLife Foundation for Healthy Families Program

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09/21/2015

... tours, and free weekly cell phone recordings with "What' s in Season" at the Greenmarket. On select Wednesdays of each ... information about weekly special events, read the Garden' s blog,...

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Food Systems

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

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09/28/2015

... Business and philanthropy leaders attending today’ s event in support of UN Women also include representatives ...

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Citi Announces Donations to Four New York City Area Community Organizations Through the 2015 Citi Community Home Runs Program

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10/06/2015

... the organizations with a check in that amount. “It’ s an honor to partner with Citi for the 2nd season of the ... community organizations,” said Curtis Granderson. "It’ s incredibly rewarding to have an...

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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... action on charitable "tax extenders" before the year' s end by featuring speakers from the philanthropic and .....

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’ s way by the proposed Pebble Mine. This vast open-pit gold ... and thousands of wilderness acres that sustainthe world’ s largest sockeye salmon fishery...

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Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality

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11/09/2015

... evolving strategy," said Darren Walker, the foundation’ s president. . . Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make .....

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Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

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11/11/2015

... trying to attract companies, rather than growing what’ s already there.” Kelly is executive vice president at ... Wealth” (funded by the Surdna Foundation, which also supports Next City). The report defines...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... to establish 20 as the age of jurisdiction for the state’ s juvenile justice system. This would make Connecticut the ...

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Justice Reform

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... and spending habits. The Lab will be managed by Duke’ s Center for Advanced Hindsight, which is headed by Dan ...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

More than two dozen youth from across Central Brooklyn gathered for the first part of a 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge presented by Central Brooklyn State Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Blue 1647 hosted at the Nigerian American Muslim...

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’ s Struggling Newspaper of Record “If newspapers are ... a stunning development for a struggling business, that’ s pretty close to what the storied...

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U. S . colleges and universities. With the grant, the Center for Minority Serving Institutions in Penn' s Graduate School of Education will launch...

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Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art

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02/16/2016

... the Americas at The Fralin, as well as the University’ s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. The grant is the ... the hiring of two new curators for the University’ s impressive collections of indigenous art...

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... their respective sponsor theatre company. This year’ s recipients are Rachel Bonds at Ars Nova; Paola ...

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