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Tynesha McHarris will be joining the Brooklyn Community Foundation next week in a new position as Director of Community Leadership. Tynesha has been working with the Foundation since January on Brooklyn Insights, overseeing Neighborhood Dialogues...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

... (SIGP), will strengthen and expand successful initiatives at each of the four partners to recruit, train, ...

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Education

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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

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07/17/2014

Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

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07/17/2014

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Shriver Corps, an initiative to train volunteers to help connect poor Americans with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty.

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical American household has declined by more than a third over the past 10 years, according to a study underwritten by the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

... ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding initiatives on Kickstarter and other social media sites, what ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels

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09/22/2014

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has pledged to eliminate assets tied to fossil fuels.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Whatever Happened to Obama’s ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ in NYC?

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11/12/2014

Local organizations, such as the Elmezzi Foundation, received smaller planning grants, but were not selected for the larger implementation awards.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller Foundation to Announce Second Batch of Resilient Cities

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12/02/2014

Cities were selected from an applicant pool spanning 94 countries.

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Bill de Blasio’s Mayor’s Fund Raises $120K for Two Murdered NYPD Officers

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12/29/2014

... wife, is also urging more New Yorkers to support initiatives that, in the words of the de Blasio ...

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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge

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01/07/2015

Aetna will award up to six organization as much as $750,000 each to help reduce chronic health conditions.

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Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor

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01/23/2015

Ford's grants help Slow Food USA promote food and economic security in poor rural an urban households in South and Latin America.

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Rockefeller Foundation Taps Skilled Workforce in Kenya

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02/17/2015

Rockefeller made the investment as part if its Digital Jobs Africa program.

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund has received a $485,000 planning grant for the first year of the project, focused on the development of a multi-phased, comprehensive initiative to help small-to-midsize arts organizations navigate, adapt and thrive amid ever-...