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Proteus Fund and Proteus Action League Elect Three New Board Members

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07/08/2015

... League (PAL) are delighted to announce the election of two new members of the Proteus Board and one new member of ... and advocacy world. Helena was a program manager for two national philanthropies for nearly...

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Jessie Smith Noyes At Top of the List of Family Foundations Who Fund Social Justice Work

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10/07/2015

... Jr. Fund (49 percent). While the report found that about two -thirds of the family foundations in the data sample ... funding between 2004 and 2012, the increase for nearly two -thirds of those foundations did...

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New Leadership at the Pershing Square Foundation

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10/08/2015

... Olivia’s accomplishments at the Foundation over the last two years and with the benefit of a relationship that spans more than two decades, the foundation could not be more pleased that ...

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Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... and lower income families. Many experts concur that two of the challenges keeping people underserved, underbanked ... committed to supporting innovative solutions around these two skills in order to help more...

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Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center

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06/22/2016

... and CEO of the Ali Center, said in an interview on June 8, two days before Ali’s public memorial service in ... are going to be on schedule.” The Ali Center will add two permanent exhibits, along with a new...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

... beets. They are relatively rare in nature, compared to the two other major groups of plant pigments, and until recently, ... a research student, along with other team members, used two betalain-producing...

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Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease

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08/29/2017

... sufferers are between the ages of 25 and 50, and women are two to three times more likely than men to contract MS. There ... also several types or “courses” of the disease, the two most dominant involving a...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

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10/03/2017

... of scale-up studies.” And they are not kidding! Just two weeks ago, another foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy ... children in U.S. urban areas. Their report—authored by two Michigan State faculty, assistant...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have seen significant global advancement on climate ... Duke Charitable Foundation to bring together more than two -dozen expert scientists...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Appeared On NBC’s Show, “Give“

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10/30/2017

... and Food Network personality Sunny Anderson visits two of The Foundation’s grantee partners: The ... to distribute a $50,000 grant from The Foundation between two organizations. We were proud to work with NBC...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... inmates who beat a Harvard College team in a debate two years ago put a national spotlight on the prisoners’ ... Bard faculty will teach small seminars leading to a two -year associates degree in liberal arts,...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

... and Charlie made me promise that I would give journalism two more years,” Shreckinger, the political correspondent ... said, a year — that I would do another year.” It took two before Schreckinger went to...

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Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

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12/05/2017

... challenges we face as a nation are clear. Over the past two decades, automation driven by digital technology has ... is especially struggling to provide a path forward for the two -thirds of Americans who don’t...

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Supported By The Taft Foundation, Rising Tide U Launches New Online Program, The Autism Advantage

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01/31/2018

... success so far, with 14 active participants, 12 parents, two organizations, one operational social enterprise, and two more social enterprises that are in the prototyping phase ...

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Dodge Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to New Jersey Nonprofits

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08/13/2018

... its Education focus area, the foundation awarded thirty- two grants totaling nearly $1.2 million, including a grant of ... through its Environment focus area, the foundation awarded two grants totaling $375,...

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Supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Report Finds Even Light Drinking Increases Risk of Death

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10/03/2018

... ages 18 to 85, the researchers found that consuming one to two drinks four or more times per week -- an amount deemed ... Experimental Research. "It used to seem like having one or two drinks per day was...

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Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York

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02/13/2019

... in its iconic Midtown headquarters, which just underwent a two -year renovation. Titled the Ford Foundation Gallery, the ... as curatorial affairs director for the real-estate company Two Trees Management. “It’...

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Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Finds Bonding Exercises Cut Discipline Disparity for Students of Color

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04/04/2019

... and Social Psychology , found that guided exercises in two or more 25-minute class sessions early in sixth or ... black and Latino boys by 57 percent over two years in one study. In a second study, the...

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New York Life Foundation Invests in Expanding Access to Summer and Afterschool Learning

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04/23/2019

... learning. Last summer, BellXcel scholars gained two and a half months of math skills and two months of reading skills through five to six-week ...

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With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant

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06/11/2019

... Nature Conservancy has issued a Request for Proposals for two additional rounds of grant funding for projects with the ... five grants in the fall of 2018 and plans to complete two additional rounds of...

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