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Mellon Foundation Awards St. Lawrence University $800,000 to Support Sophomore-Year Experience

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10/21/2016

... This new program will offer a new series of second-year student seminars and courses that are linked to experiential ... including internships, community outreach and summer research fellowships.... Mellon...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities

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05/19/2017

... to expand opportunities for community college students to research on the Hopkins campus and study with Hopkins ...

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Marlow Kee Named Chief Financial Officer at Simons Foundation

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10/14/2016

... oversee the foundation’s finance, facilities and human resources departments and will help develop strategies to support new research initiatives. “I’ve always worked for ... staff and board. They live and...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children Issues $3 Million Heckscher Foundation Challenge to New York Colleges, Community-Based Organizations, and Employer Partners to Meet Education and Workforce Needs

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01/18/2023

... a clear path from education to meaningful careers, whether through traditional college-based programs or alternative ... will support partnerships that lead to measurable student outcomes focused on employment...

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What's the Secret to Responsive Grantmaking?

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01/28/2020

... a guilty pleasure of mine to log onto Guidestar and read through 990s—the federal tax form that all 501(c)(3)s are ... with leadership, attend events, and conduct independent research . But as a “numbers”...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $72 Million to Teams Led by Humanities Scholars to Ensure “Just Futures” and Expand National Cultural Narratives

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01/13/2021

... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the US, announced today that grants ... can lead to the creation of socially just futures. “ Through extraordinary...

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Ford Foundation Announces Four Promotions

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04/03/2014

... of the most significant intractable challenges for natural resources governance in the global South. Lourdes Rivera , in ... that SRHR issues were included in the Affordable Care Act . Globally, she has built a...

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Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

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03/25/2013

... report, Opportunity by Design: New High School Models for Student Success, that calls for a focus on how schools use teaching, time, technology, money, and other resources to bring all students to the much...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists

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08/11/2017

... 2017 grant season for the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) comes with new investments from the ... Andrew Mellon Foundation towards the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA), the launch of new...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help City Leaders Respond to Coronavirus in the United States

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03/10/2020

... Coronavirus epidemic. As the virus continues to spread through communities around the world, with devastating impact ... Control and Prevention and help them understand how to act on it quickly, efficiently,...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

... donating to poverty-fighting charities. Yet I worry that through these acts of kindness, I absolve myself of asking ... of people around the world have access to new tools and resources with which to improve...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund

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03/17/2020

... Response Fund to provide immediate and longer-term resources to vulnerable residents across our borough. We ... systems, low-wage workers, and people who are unhoused. Through consultation with our community...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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29 Oct 2020

Food for Thought: Preparing for the Post Election World

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12:00pm to 1:15pm

... election less than a month away, we find ourselves living through chaotic times. Our President has repeatedly ... a tool to buttress their philanthropic practice and as a lens through which...

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The Scherman Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members

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05/01/2023

... and the newly-appointed Executive Director of the Brooklyn Arts Council. He brings to the Scherman board a strong, ... Foundation reshapes its Arts program with a racial justice lens . “As a...

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Ford Foundation Commits $75 Million in New Funding to the US South

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06/28/2021

... are advancing justice at a moment of historic opportunity. Through this investment, Ford will significantly strengthen ... all the Ford Foundation's US programs areas and will fund: Arts , cultural, and...

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15 Nov 2012

Putting a Human Face on the Fiscal Cliff for Nonprofits and Foundations: A Post-Election Reality Check with Tim Delaney

Thursday, November 15, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... circumstances that will be even worse if Congress fails to act before January 1, 2013. If you read National Council ... nation’s airspace and air traffic control, scientific research into cancer and other...

Simons Foundation Provides Funding for Autism Family Biobank

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09/16/2016

... Biobank New York City-based Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative is providing funding to support Kaiser ... Permanente's Northern California Division of Research in building the Autism Family...

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