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With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years

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04/08/2016

... The gallery is such a fixture in Washington that it’ s hard to remember that it didn’t open until 1941, thanks to the vision of one man. “Andrew Mellon’ s idea was an American idea,” said Earl “Rusty” Powell...

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JPB Foundation Grant Helps Affordable Housing Providers Install Solar Power

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04/13/2016

... Housing Providers Install Solar Power GRID Alternatives, America ’ s largest nonprofit solar installer, today announced an ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing and Homelessness

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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

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04/14/2016

... to examine how results-based funding could revolutionize America ' s approach to entrenched social issues. The project addresses .....

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In NYTimes, Ford’s Walker on Internships and Inequality

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07/06/2016

In NYTimes, Ford’ s Walker on Internships and Inequality TALENT is equally ... believe fervently and faithfully in expanding opportunity, America ’ s internship-industrial complex does just the...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary

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09/06/2016

... for the Humanities, will host a sneak preview of "Hamilton' s America ," a documentary film that delves into the life ... Hamilton and the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda' s...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info

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11/22/2016

... evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA). The What Works Cities initiative includes a ...

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Community Development

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Former Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Joins Markle Foundation

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02/15/2017

... and public institutions, aiming to “transform America ’ s outdated labor market to reflect the needs of the ...

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Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows

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03/21/2017

... and creating an ad campaign to take on distortions in America ' s contemporary racial narrative... Open Society Foundations .....

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Social Justice

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Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities

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04/10/2017

... Foundation, which has steadfastly kept up the family’ s commitment to the liberal arts. Today, with funding for NEA and NEH in jeopardy, the Mellon Foundation’ s website prominently features an article on why...

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Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

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04/14/2017

... LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’ s Impact on Jobs America needs new tools for the timely measurement and ... and computer scientists said in a new report. The panel’ s...

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Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

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08/29/2017

... you when you are old and frail? By current standards, it’ s likely to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a ... little if any training, making $20,000 a year. And that’ s if you are lucky. If you live...

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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

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08/30/2017

... laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U. S ., despite research showing that the practice puts young ... children under 18 were married from 2000 to 2015 in the U. S ., according to a report...

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

... could afford to send for him. “My thought of coming to America was getting a chance to see what was beyond the ...

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Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks

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09/11/2017

... rallying cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet America ' s schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now ... curriculum. And when they are taught, critics say, it' s...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... alleviation ," says Abby Maxman, President of OxFam America . Maxman was among a diverse group of people working .....

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

The NYPD' s Growing DNA Database Raises Concern The NYPD is ... increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it' s worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads ... and The Trace, a...

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Justice Reform

How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

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09/26/2017

... tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and Opportunity America . . . How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege? ...

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By Age 3, Inequality Is Clear: Rich Kids Attend School. Poor Kids Stay with a Grandparent

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09/28/2017

... 3- and 4-year-olds every weekday morning at New York City' s most exclusive preschools. Tuition is more than $30,000 a ... Just a few subway stops away in the Bronx, home to one of America ' s...

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High-Paying Jobs Alone Won't Save Big Cities

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09/28/2017

... conditions for a corporate hero to swoop in and make America great again. Enter Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stage left. ... for the possibility of accommodating and hosting Amazon’ s “H2Q” headquarters. The company...

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