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Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

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11/29/2016

Gary S. Schiff’s first book, “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a “great humanities book.”

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Arts

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Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy

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11/30/2016

... strategies are logical and realistic, the extent to which learning and improvement are built into the grant, and the ...

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NYSHealth Invests in Veterans' Health

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02/01/2017

NYSHealth is committed to working with a broad set of partners to meet our common goal: ensuring that veterans have access to high-quality care and choices about where they get that care.

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Health

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Geraldine R. Dodge and Silicon Valley Community Foundations Accepted to Knight Community Information Lab

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02/14/2017

... announced the opportunity Monday at its annual Media Learning Seminar, a gathering of funders, media and tech ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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02/16/2017

A little over a month ago, Harlem native George Suttles joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new program office. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows

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03/21/2017

... slavery helped build a major modern institution of higher learning ; and creating an ad campaign to take on distortions ...

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Social Justice

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The Uphill Battle Of United Way NYC’s First Female President

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04/19/2017

When Sheena Wright stepped into the role of president of the United Way of New York City (UWNYC) nearly five years ago, she was the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s 80-year history.

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United Way of New York City

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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

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06/20/2017

The Staten Island Foundation assisted several women entrepreneurs get started through a grant. And La Colmena Community Job Center, and the Center for Family Life trained the women on how to operate a business.

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Gender Justice

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JPMorgan Launched a New Tool to Help Fill 7,500 Finance Jobs in New York City

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07/12/2017

... the bank and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning unveiled BankingOnMyCareer.com, seeking to help New ...

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Workforce Development

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Arcus and Novo Foundations' Global Trans Initiative Share U.S. Narratives

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07/25/2017

Activists in the U.S. reflect on the disparities found in trans and non-binary communities and how philanthropy can transform disparity into possibility for those who live on the margins.

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Philanthropy’s Best

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LGBTQ

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Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes

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08/18/2017

... to prevent or halt it. The Helmsley grant will help foster learning , collaboration and advancement by supporting ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

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08/30/2017

... the students at Farmingdale are going to have a head start learning about this tech and be ramped and ready to start ...

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Workforce Development

To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”

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08/31/2017

... ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy, informed choices about the ...

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Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods

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09/12/2017

Over the past year, New York City’s three biggest providers of emergency food have reorganized in an effort to feed underserved communities and get ethnic ingredients to specific neighborhoods.

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Food Systems

Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago

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09/14/2017

Former President Barack Obama announced in a new video Wednesday that he will gather together civic leaders from around the world next month to take part in the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit.

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DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible

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09/21/2017

At a meeting in Jackson Heights, under the rumble of the 7 train, about 40 DACA recipients learned that their fate in this country depends on one date: March 5, 2018.

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Immigration

De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule

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09/28/2017

Nearly two years after Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing to deal with the homelessness crisis, just 48 units are ready and occupied, The Post has learned.

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Housing and Homelessness

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... Anderson, associate university librarian for research and learning at Vanderbilt University; and Bernard Reilly, ...

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Communications/Media

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Opinion: How Nonprofits Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve Fundraising

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10/02/2017

Is your AI solution a friend or a tool? To learn more about the use of artificial intelligence to improve fundraising and related philanthropic programs, Ray Wang, CEO and founder of Constellation Research, and I invited Adam Martel to our weekly...

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