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The Teagle Foundation

Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

... should be able to answer about how it makes grants: Does our grantmaking align with our intentions? Are our grants structured to be successful? Are we efficient in ...

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10/20/2015 - More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation - Recording and Presentation

Publication date:

10/2015

View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation."

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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... It’s a rom-com. Ms. Bioh, a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated from Ghana in 1968, has made it her ... and theater at Ohio State University. (She told her parents she was majoring in business.) There...

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The Tow Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Maintains A World Class Art Collection In a Westchester Basement

Release Date:

02/05/2018

... who commissioned the art gallery. Nelson Rockefeller’s parents —John D Rockefeller Jr. and Abigail Greene ... to him. By the time he lived in the house, however, his parents ’ collection was given to museums or...

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Century Foundation Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity

Release Date:

05/15/2018

... without academic tracking. In New Orleans, a group of parents concerned about the shuttering of their local school ... Central Falls to go to school together. These educators, parents , and policymakers all...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

13 Jun 2019

The New Normal: How to Serve the Redefined Family - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... an explosion of diversity. Today, homes with unmarried parents , same-sex couples with adopted children, and single parents are as increasingly common as the traditional family ...

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Family Foundation

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Report Details Employment Challenges Facing Latino Youth

Release Date:

06/13/2014

A study supported by the Rockefeller Foundation finds that Latinos, the youngest and fastest-growing segment of the American labor force, face considerable challenges gaining stable employment.

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Economic Security

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MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

Release Date:

03/17/2015

The five-year, $25.9 million partnership with TechnoServe will provide jobs and training for 48,000 young people in Rwanda, Kenya Tanzania and Uganda.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Workforce Development

Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

Release Date:

09/11/2015

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of glaucoma, a blinding neurodegenerative disease that affects tens of millions of...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

Release Date:

05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

Release Date:

05/05/2017

Americans age 50 and older who report that they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of retirement, to have experienced unemployment in the recent past, and to have fewer...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

Release Date:

08/30/2017

The James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation, which was established in 2010 to handle their legacies and art holdings, has decided to give all of its assets, including its art and archives, to the Parrish Art Museum, and to dissolve.

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Children, Youth and Families

Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

Release Date:

09/05/2017

A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, found that “implicit weight bias” in children ages 9 to 11 was as common as “implicit racial bias” is among adults.

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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

Release Date:

10/02/2017

The prospect of Social Security running out of money in their lifetimes haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50.

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Sector News

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Economic Security

ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

Release Date:

11/15/2017

The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the recipients of its 24th annual Painters & Sculptors Grants on Tuesday.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Joan Mitchell Foundation

Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

Release Date:

12/20/2017

In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of residents around the theme of “Youth as Agents of Transformative Change.” Participants hailed from eight different countries, representing academia, the...

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Newman's Own Foundation Names Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla to Board of Directors

Release Date:

01/11/2022

... Own Foundation has announced the election of global public health expert Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, to its board of ... date. Dr. Pérez-Escamilla is Professor of Public Health , Director of the Office of...

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Heads Up: These Tax Reform Proposals Could Help or Hurt Nonprofits

Release Date:

08/16/2017

... After the failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate are even more ... hard. Eliminating the Estate Tax: As we noted in our 2017 Policy Slate list of issues we...

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PNY News

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