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The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

... seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. ... to pursue research directions with above-average...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... honoring seven early-career biomedical scientists whose research holds exceptional promise for advancing the frontiers of knowledge about how ... per year for a maximum of five years to conduct innovative...

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Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Racial Justice and Managing Director of Housing & Homelessness

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01/15/2019

... new members of its Grants and Mission Investing team: Susan Shah joins as Managing Director of Racial Justice ... juvenile, and immigration systems deliver on their promise of justice and equity. “I believe we...

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“Poor” is Washington’s Four Letter Word

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01/21/2015

... I think the problem is something else. Social science research indicates that most Americans, regardless of their ... So when the President and his Republican colleagues talk about their priorities, they are...

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Mellon Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence

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07/26/2021

... will serve through August 2022 and pursue their own research and writing as well as advise on programs, ... J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. His two TED Talks, The Danger of Silence and How...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Communications Assistant

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10/2013

... on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job .....

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If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

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03/20/2017

... changing skill requirements and variety of specific human resources needs. This paid off: the low-income program ... a common vision: to maximize and leverage often scarce resources to challenge the status quo...

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A New Way to Sustain the Campaign: Foundation Center and Open Society Foundations Launch BMAFunders.org

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03/28/2013

... and leaders from the policy advocacy, practitioner and research sectors, has expanded upon the earlier work of ... barriers that prevent too many black men and boys from realizing their full potential. The...

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The Art of Inclusion: New York Funders Mobilize to Make the Arts More Accessible

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05/03/2012

At our recent collaborative program at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, funders explored how to ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Backs Study Exploring Taskmaster Brain Region

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09/25/2015

... through a sequence of tasks, you aren’t far off. In new research , Brown University scientists report evidence that a ... shave. Get dressed, pour coffee, grab keys, turn on the cell phone, remind the kids to...

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... said. Biren Patel, an associate professor of clinical cell and neurobiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, ...

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The Fierce Urgency of Atlantic: Bending the Arc in Our Final Years

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02/26/2015

... described below. This convergence of limited time and resources provides an unprecedented impetus to deliver on our foundation’s promise of strategic, big bet philanthropy to achieve ... education institutions...

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Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Leadership Development and Managing Director of Mission Real Estate Development

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07/29/2019

... at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference and Research Center; Columbia University’s School of ... of growth in an organization with tremendous legacy and resources .” Trinity’s Chief Philanthropy...

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How Collaboration Can Spur Innovation and Spread Good Ideas (Part I)

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07/14/2016

... new ideas. They become more efficient. They increase resources , and innovation flourishes. End of story. Right? ... long-term to have utility. According to Rafi Santo of Hive Research Lab , lighter-touch...

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4 Questions about Disaster Philanthropy for Bob Ottenhoff

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04/23/2013

... Service providers may find themselves overworked and their resources stretched. And then there are the aspects of ... starting to hear governors in New York and New Jersey talk about buying up land and not...

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Meeting My Philanthropy Peers in This Incredibly Small, Incredibly Big World of Ours

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03/07/2017

David Biemesderfer of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers writes about WINGSForum 2017, which brought together about 300 participants who work for philanthropy associations, networks and support organizations from more than 40...

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Three Actions Philanthropic Funders Can Take to Advance Equity for Immigrant and Refugee Workers

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07/30/2020

... provides worker-centered organizations with flexible resources to pivot, experiment, and share their work with ... economies. We’ve seen a renewed interest in the promise of worker ownership models through...

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How Can We Apply a “Lens” That Doesn’t Distort?

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12/17/2014

... New York hosted a fascinating program looking at new research on gender-inclusive organizing in the movement for ... own potential.” But neurological and social science research tells us that human beings are...

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Don’t Say “When Did You Stop Caring About Children?” and Other Guidance for Child Advocates

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09/23/2010

... and Company As state budget deficits and competition for resources mount, child advocacy groups and their funders ... and youth. But even as they fight the good fight, recent research suggests that many of the...

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22 Jan 2015

Learning to Write Code: The New Literacy?

Thursday, January 22, 2015 -

7:45am to 11:00am

... fewer computer science majors than in the 1980s. New research has shown that teaching “computational ... example, 74% of girls in middle school express interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and...