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$4 Million From Ford, Mellon, and Alice Walton Fund Goes to Promote Diversity on Museum Boards

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01/15/2019

... receive $4 million to bolster board diversity in a push to make museums more accessible and inclusive. The Ford, Andrew ...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Begins a New Chapter

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02/06/2019

... There’s more tension with people just trying to live and make it here.” And there was the tension involved with ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces National Awards to 16 Arts Organizations Leading the Arts Sector

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02/07/2019

... we recognize that organizations’ capacity to inspire and make valuable contributions are not tied to where they’re ...

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New York Community Trust to Provide Accessible Tickets in New York City

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02/13/2019

The one-year grants will gift each of the theatres amounts ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 to support community access programs, discounted ticket outreach, young member programs, and more. The fund aims to diversify audiences and reach potential...

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Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education

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02/20/2019

Long Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education A nonprofit working on open-source curriculum that aligns with state standards is the latest development in the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 10-...

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Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - Next 100

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02/21/2019

... center, or a high school teacher with ideas about how to make education better for everyone, we want you to be part of ...

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MAC And Benefit Announce Support For Planned Parenthood

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03/12/2019

... own philanthropy program, we knew immediately we needed to make the announcement together, regardless of the fact that ...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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Bloomberg Pledges $5.5 Million for Climate Action

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04/23/2019

... the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017, Bloomberg pledged to make up $15 million in funding from Washington the ...

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Connecticut Seventh-Grader Wins SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite ® Essay Competition

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04/26/2019

The Fall 2018 InvestWrite competition required students to select an entrepreneur they admire, research their company and explain how they would advise the entrepreneur to invest the company’s assets.

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Education

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches New Digital Innovation Project for European Cities

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06/25/2019

Cities will Receive Support to Advance Cutting Edge Digital Services and Data Practices

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Community Development

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Emil Kang Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage

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07/09/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Emil Kang as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage.

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Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

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07/09/2019

Astrophysicists are trying to zoom in on massive clusters of galaxies which are difficult to see.

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The Wallace Foundation Names Bronwyn Bevan as New Director of Research

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07/31/2019

Bronwyn Bevan has been selected as The Wallace Foundation’s new Director of Research, effective August 19, 2019, the foundation announced today. Currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington Seattle, College of Education,...

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Four Foundations, Including Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Buy Historic Archives of 'Ebony' Magazine

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07/25/2019

... these images, to give them the exposure they deserve and make them readily available to the public.” According to ...

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Obama Foundation Announces Wally Adeyemo as President

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08/14/2019

The Obama Foundation announced that former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo will join the organization as its first-ever President.

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Second Round of Grants Through Sickle Cell Disease/Advancing Cures Program

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09/10/2019

... for sickle cell disease research and an opportunity to make important strides toward delivering a cure,” said ...

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Lukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer, Research Supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

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09/20/2019

A drug used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia appears to be more effective at stopping a type of medulloblastoma in mouse models than existing treatments for the deadly pediatric brain tumor, reports a multi-institutional team.

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Arabella Advisors Named Among the Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America

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10/01/2019

The announcement comes as a result of the magazine's annual "Entrepreneur 360," a premier study delivering what Entrepreneur Media calls "the most comprehensive analysis of private companies" in the United States. Based on the study, Arabella is...

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