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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

The project, called “The Women’s Building,” will offer office space for organizations advocating for women and children, and will serve as a global hub for people working on those issues.

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

On Monday, February 6, Robin Hood, New York's largest poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation, the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research, will host their first annual Poverty Solutions Conference.

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

... asthma. The video follows 14-year-old Angel as the program works to remedy issues at home that were negatively affecting ...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances...

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

The law is widely viewed as targeting groups backed by the Open Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U.S. financier George Soros.

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Supported by Rockefeller, $10 Million Water Window Challenge Announces Winners

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03/17/2017

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), has announced the twelve winners of the Water Window Challenge.

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Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer

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03/20/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Craig Mellendick as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Foundation.

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced grants totaling $5.2 million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to study environmental factors that influence the...

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Century Foundation Analysis Finds Millions Could Lose Health Benefits If Congress Repeals and States Replace the ACA

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04/10/2017

In the wake of House Republicans’ failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the White House is reportedly working with the House Freedom Caucus on a Plan B.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding

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04/26/2017

A new online effort hopes to provide a centralized entry point into the variety of work happening in marine conservation and its funding sources.

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The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare

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05/15/2017

... scale." The Peterson Center is an active grantmaker and works with a range of partners, including universities, .....

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With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications

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05/19/2017

... to "how things happen, why things happen and how the world works ." Without a doubt, students will use science in their .....

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

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06/02/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of...

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Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

Financial giants, in addition to supporting urban youth and employment, are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and housing.

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Housing and Homelessness

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A Better Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone

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06/19/2017

The Pershing Square Foundation stands out by backing some truly innovative grantees—and it highlighted social innovators through two panels.

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New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance Award $750K in Grants to Middle School Out-of-School Time

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06/21/2017

The New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance today announced $750,000 in grant awards to 18 middle school out-of-school time (OST) programs serving disadvantaged youth in communities across the nation.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

Combating fake news and bolstering the public’s trust in journalism is the aim of a Vanderbilt research project that was selected to receive a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund.

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