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AXA Announces the 2015 AXA Achievers

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04/21/2015

... an additional scholarship award of $15,000. AXA has given more than $25 million in scholarships to more than 6,000 students since the program's inception in .....

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... and their descendants integrate into society, they become more educated, have better job opportunities, make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... to help foundations improve their grantmaking so they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their ... a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one more thing in common, something that...

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Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations

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03/31/2016

... Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations More than $1.6 million in additional grants from the Ford ... fragile populations. “Credit unions can play a more active role in improving the financial...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

... in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit documents that were obtained ... financial aid is disbursed at the expense of broader and more pressing concerns, such as...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with more than $2 billion in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits ...

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Arabella Advisors Director to Speak at 2nd Annual Food Tank Summit

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04/18/2016

... April 20–21, 2016. This two-day event will feature more than 75 different speakers from the food and agriculture ... urban agriculture, family farmers, farm workers, and more . Food Tank recently had the...

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Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

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04/21/2016

... in the condition. Some estimate that a total of 350 or more could be involved. The long-term study involves researchers from more than 21 medical institutions, including Boston ...

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What Big (and not-so-big) Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style

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05/23/2016

... and their philanthropic gifts. Spoiler alert—they are more connected than ever. While it still does happen (we ... next six months is a rarity. To a millennial, it must seem more probable that someone is...

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Century Foundation Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students

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06/02/2016

... remedial courses. The authors state that to produce more college-ready students colleges should accelerate ... and shift from a "drill and practice" type of teaching to more contextual, real-life...

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Stonewall Community Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads

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06/20/2016

... on marriage equality a year ago, gay families have enjoyed more visibility than ever before. But Gardner, executive ... of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, believes more can be done to uplift same-...

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Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book

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06/29/2016

Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ ... an all-encompassing celebration of queer culture, drawing more than a million people...

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

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10/06/2016

... Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents More young blacks and Hispanics feel that they can't depend ... whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials...

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NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

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10/06/2016

... Islamophobia, the New York Community Trust in June awarded more than $500,000 in grants to several Muslim American and ... Director Shawn Morehead joins us to talk about this more recent initiative along with...

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Survey Supported by Ford Foundation Says Nearly Half of Young Adults Lack Retirement Savings, Pension

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10/17/2016

... Public Affairs Research. The youngest in that group are more likely to still be in school, but the trend also holds for those in their late 20s. More than 4 in 10 of those aged 25 to 30 have nothing for ...

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How Judith Rodin Created A New Model For Philanthropic Funding At The Rockefeller Foundation

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12/07/2016

... During her 11-year tenure at the helm, Rodin has added two more complex overriding priorities. That communities should be designed for more resilience—the ability to survive and thrive in the ...

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Ford-Backed Poll Finds that Young Americans Fear They Will Be Worse Off Post-Trump

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01/17/2017

... to 30, which found that the country’s young adults are more likely to expect they’ll be worse off at the end of ... term than better off. Such young Americans are also far more likely to think Trump will...

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Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project

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03/01/2017

... among students. To date, the Foundation and its more than 40 partners have completed 13 of these new spaces serving more than 6,000 students and their families... Weinberg ...

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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... a bat's social network, females who previously built up more friendships with non-relatives cope better with their loss. They score more food than do female bats who only invest in close kin. . .....

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