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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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“

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Open Society Foundation Partners with Charles Koch Foundation to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank

Release Date:

07/04/2019

... Koch Foundation to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank Two mega-philanthropists at opposite ends of the political ... plans to issue four reports before the end of 2019 — two offering alternative approaches to...

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17 Oct 2019

Exiting Responsibly: Making Wise Choices As You Wrap Up - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, October 17, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... members, and donors will feature a discussion between two highly respected CEOs in the process of exiting their long-time roles alongside two new CEOs just entering this role. Presenters Jamie ...

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Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Announces Leadership Transition

Release Date:

04/28/2021

... many genres. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Nicholas Firth, President of the Jean and ... Director. Having worked side by side with Edmée Firth for two decades, we are confident...

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18 Apr 2012

Improving Teaching: What’s Evaluation Got to Do with It?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

A debate* over the methods and purpose of teaching evaluation has been roiling in the national and many local media for months. In New York as elsewhere, the media have largely focused on the points of dispute and the contentious use of value-added...

09 Oct 2012

College and Career Ready: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Thousands of young New York City immigrants -- many of them high school students -- waited on line on August 15 to begin the process of applying for deportation deferrals under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While...

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19 Jun 2013

Infrastructure at Risk: How to Protect Public Investments from Stronger Storms and Tidal Surges

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Irene made New Yorkers painfully aware of the effects of tidal surges and storms on the transit, wastewater and power infrastructure on which we all rely. This subject was one of the most popular topics of the 2013...

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