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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

Kathy Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 global offices to implement sector-leading approaches to supporting the sustainability, vitality, and effectiveness of organizations and networks that serve...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

The grants, financially supported by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Foundation Charitable Trust and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will be awarded directly to teachers for research-based initiatives.

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Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities

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05/18/2016

Forty nonprofit organizations will use funds to address urban challenges ranging from affordable housing to environmental sustainability and infrastructure.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

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08/12/2016

Bob Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said the department’s decision on the application should put an end to colleges’ attempts to dodge oversight by converting to nonprofit status.

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... next week the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University in suburban North Jersey will launch a ...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... for at least twenty days in 2013 scored modestly higher on state math tests than students who did not participate, and ...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

The Mission Continues reintegrates veterans who are adjusting to life outside the military by engaging them in the work of strengthening communities from within.

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

... its opponents the real conspirators. It is fighting state attorneys general, journalists and environmental groups ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

A new study reveals that foundation leaders are more self-critical than ever and are seeking urgently to create greater social impact.

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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... The project will, among other things, help establish a state -of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging ...

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

... Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential ...

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Fund for the City of New York Supports Conceptualization of Underground Maps and Models

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02/15/2017

... Development Study (CDS) that will assess the current state and future direction of information standards for ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

If ever there were a problem that might seem tailor-made for philanthropy, it's fighting blindness. Losing sight is a horrifying fate for anyone to contemplate, and it's not surprising that blindness has motivated some deep-pocketed donors for at...

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... the guide identifies different private, federal and state funding opportunities available to farmers who are ...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer

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03/20/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Craig Mellendick as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Foundation.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Promotes 'Changing Faces of Immigration' Video Series

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03/24/2017

The face of immigration is changing rapidly. Asians outpaced Hispanic immigrants in 2009, becoming the largest and fastest-growing wave of newcomers to the United States.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

... sector. Meaning, a qualifying nonprofit, federal, local, state , or tribal government. The program started in 2007, so ...

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Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights

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04/19/2017

... New York. The survey seeks to understand the current state of the field around openness, learning from failure, ...

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