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06 Dec 2012

Detropia - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Thursday, December 6, 2012 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

... the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now . . . the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and ...

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Corinne H. Rieder To Retire As Executive Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation

Release Date:

07/02/2014

... the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award by the American Geriatrics Society in May 2014. Dr. Rieder also ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Unemployment

Release Date:

12/09/2014

The report highlights key employment insights and is the second in the Working Paper Series.

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Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

Two Views on the Failure of Policing

Release Date:

07/16/2015

... clear—or it should have been—that antagonism between American law enforcement and young black men had reached a ... Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a work of sociology (Goffman...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... of just 58.9 years -- which is how long the average American lived in the early 1920s. Geography has such a ...

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Health

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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

Release Date:

03/08/2017

... historians of her generation on the history of African American women, 19 th century America, and Black ... She is the Blue and Gold Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of...

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Mellon Foundation

Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... Group, today announced a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in immediate relief efforts for ... proud of this staff-led fundraising effort for the American Red Cross and will continue to work...

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Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor

Release Date:

01/08/2018

... at all. According to the Federal Reserve, nearly half of American households cannot afford $400 in unexpected costs. ...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Russell Sage Foundation Grantees Cited in NY Times on Disputed Timeline for When Whites Will Assume Minority Status in US Population

Release Date:

11/29/2018

In a nation preoccupied by race, the moment when white Americans will make up less than half the country’s population has become an object of fascination.

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Census 2020

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Warhol Foundation Board Lifts 8-Year Funding Ban on the Smithsonian

Release Date:

01/15/2019

... $100,000 to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) for a major Oscar Howe retrospective ... rigid aesthetic standards that came to define Native American painting in the United States...

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New York Foundation Welcomes New Program Officer, Zabrina Collazo

Release Date:

10/07/2020

... 2020. A lover of books, Zabrina worked at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Bluestockings Bookstore. She has organized in NYC's Filipino- American community with Filipinas for Rights and...

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New Member Spotlight: Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Release Date:

09/11/2009

... the Ophthalmology Times , and presentations at the American Academy of Ophthalmology . The film seems to ... of Health (a fellow funder of the film) and by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Are you...

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Why Cultural Critics of Color Matter

Release Date:

05/15/2018

... example of what pop culture critics of color can do with resources and real estate. The coverage of Coco , another ... grossing movie. But US Latinxs, who represent 18% of the American population and purchase...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Trinity Church Wall Street Announces Spring 2022 Grants

Release Date:

06/28/2022

... for Quality Education Alliance of Families for Justice American Friends Service Committee Black Women’s Blueprint ... the City of New York Rising Ground Teachers Unite The Arab- American Family Support Center...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 New Executives Fund Recipients

Release Date:

06/15/2021

... crises threatening our common future, to increase resources for systemic alternatives that support justice, ... at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the Inter- American Court of Human Rights, and the...

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Awarded Over $3 Million in Grants to 12 Recipients.

Release Date:

06/21/2022

... to provide broad access to knowledge, information, and resources that sustain an informed and engaged citizenry. ... grants awarded in June 2022 below: Biomedical Research American Committee for the Weizmann...

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David Rockefeller Fund - Invitation to Partner on Strategy Development

Release Date:

08/08/2023

... that form the context of work in the field (e.g., American Philanthropy, Capitalism) and how best to deploy the full range of the Fund’s resources (grants, corpus, name and network) in service to ... some...

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Creating a Conversation About Hunger in America

Release Date:

03/19/2013

By James K. Cummings, Board Chair, Nathan Cummings Foundation This past week, I undertook a “SNAP Challenge” in which I spent the week eating on approximately $5.27 a day — the equivalent of the daily Supplemental Nutrition...

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Supported By The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Alliance for Audition Support Looks to Increase Diversity in Orchestras

Release Date:

04/18/2018

... least racially diverse institutions . African- American musicians accounted for only 1.8 percent of the ... that they are joining forces to try to help more African- American and Hispanic musicians audition...

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Mellon Foundation

Henry Luce Foundation Emergency Grants Support Underserved Communities in the US

Release Date:

06/05/2020

... from the Foundation’s Asia Program to the Asian American Writers Workshop will fund creation and ... groups deeply affected by COVID-19—specifically Asian American and Black women. The Higher Education Program...