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Teagle Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million in Grants

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03/16/2014

Teagle Foundation awards more than $1.5 million in grants to higher-ed institutions, reports Philanthropy News Digest.

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Citi Foundation Awards $2.1 Million for Student Mentoring Initiatives

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06/02/2014

The Citi Foundation has announced two grants totaling $2.1 million in support of initiatives designed to connect high-potential students from low-income households with mentoring and career counseling provided by early- to mid-career professionals.

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The Rockefeller Foundation and USAID Launch $100 Million Partnership

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08/04/2014

The Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development have announced a $100 million partnership to build resilience to chronic stresses and increasing climate shocks in communities across Africa and Asia.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Foundation CEOs Need Candid Feedback to Succeed in Driving Change

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09/02/2014

President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, Phil Buchanan, urges honest, constructive feedback for foundation CEOs.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

New program will include food policy, social justice and health science classes.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

The Teagle Foundation has announced grants in support of projects involving nearly 60 colleges, universities, higher education consortia, and other educational nonprofit institutions.

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Survey Shows Afterschool Participation Grows but Unmet Demand Nears 20 Million Children

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07/07/2015

... child currently enrolled in an afterschool program, there are two more who are not – and whose parents would like them to be.... ...

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EPIP Welcomes Tamir Novotny as Incoming Executive Director

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10/27/2015

Tamir Novotny has been selected as the new Executive Director of EPIP, beginning Monday, November 16

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... around the world. And yet students, particularly women, are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their skills are most needed. Just 24 percent of the world's STEM ... needed to ensure the next...

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... Homelessness has reached record highs, graduating teens are ill- prepared for today’s jobs, and heroin deaths now exceed ...

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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 Mellon Foundation grant will support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... the actions depicted in the video may be extreme, but they are not isolated. All across America, schools predominantly serving students of color are being buried under a culture of "zero tolerance."...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation, City Harvest, NRDC, Sustainable America, GrowNYC and other partners, GRACE is proud to cohost Feeding the 5000 NYC, an event designed to raise public awareness about food waste.

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

The New York Community Trust (NYCT) has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers.

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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

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07/07/2016

... to resilience building that help communities be better prepared against rising seas, flooding, and other natural ...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

William Codery, program officer of Surdna Foundation’s Strong Local Economies program, advises that "in order to create the ecosystem needed for local communities to thrive economically, socially and culturally, we have to invest in their success at...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... and charter schools across the country increasingly are pursuing socioeconomic integration, with data on those ... report found that when socioeconomic diversity policies are implemented effectively, they...

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PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

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11/17/2016

... counseling services. Learning to Work serves students who are either returning after dropping out or are struggling to finish high school, helps them navigate the ...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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