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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding

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02/02/2016

... Unrestricted Funding The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) and nine other donors announced a new ... model to meet the challenges of today' s world. Blue Meridian Partners will invest at least $1...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... There Goes the Neighborhood has been provided by the Ford Foundation , Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , The New York Community Trust, and the Economic ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum ... Post. Made to mark the Washington institution' s 75th anniversary, the grant...

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Arts

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

Aetna’ s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get ... Association of Counties (NACo) are working with Aetna’ s independent charitable foundation on the Healthiest Cities and Counties...

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Health

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... bout of inchoate elation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a new grant program — the Doris Duke ... Artist Awards — that integrates Creative Capital’ s financial planning curriculum into the five-...

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Arts

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation . Today, the foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with ... Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Marley’ s...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign The John S . and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million ... festivities of the 2016 USA Artists Assembly, the group’ s...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Arts

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Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’s Water Crisis

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05/11/2016

Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’ s Water Crisis Ten grant makers announced today they plan to ... recover from the harm they have suffered from the city’ s water crisis. The Charles Stewart...

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Environment and Climate Change

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How Ford, Rockefeller Supported "Street Orgs" in the 1970s

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06/03/2016

... Vice Lords were actually given $275,000 by the Rockefeller Foundation for their organizing work, and the Ford Foundation granted them $130,000, part of which was used for ...

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Would John D. Rockefeller Opt for an LLC? A Conversation With Judith Rodin

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06/23/2016

... an LLC? A Conversation With Judith Rodin The Rockefeller Foundation may be one of the most venerable names in ... chieftains worldwide. She broke new ground for the foundation by supporting efforts to buttress...

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

... the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. That' s a theory posited by two political scientists, Michael ... A. McCann, in a report published for the Russell Sage Foundation . Jones-Correa and...

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With Surdna and Open Society Support, Equitable Economic Development Fellowship Launches

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06/29/2016

... the fellowship, which is generously funded by the Surdna Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, economic ...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

... Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments The Rockefeller Foundation is aiming to connect social entrepreneurs with ... to environmental-news site GreenBiz. The grant maker' s plans includes helping...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing

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07/27/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in ... including Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation , and Cheryl Eason, the deputy executive officer ... and chief...

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Gender Justice

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For Funders Focusing on Developing Countries, Impact Bonds Present Fresh Opportunities

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08/04/2016

... roles for foundations outlined by Social Finance U. S . in 2014—building capacity of service providers, ... capital in 21 SIBs and in both of the DIBs—UBS Optimus Foundation in the case of the DIB for girls’...

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Insights

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Impact Investing

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The Brookings Institution

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Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

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09/21/2016

A program of the Open Society Foundations, Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United...

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

Justice Reform

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Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President

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11/07/2016

... Mastri, who held the post for four years and guided the foundation through an important leadership transition. Neill is a Vice President at The Rockefeller Foundation , heading up global communications. He...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Gender Justice

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The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own

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11/28/2016

The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman' s Own Paul Newman was a man ahead of his time. While everyone ... grasps the idea of social enterprise businesses, Newman' s Own was a novelty when it...

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Food Systems

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Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

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01/20/2017

... into Behavior-Change Campaigns The William T. Grant Foundation ' s Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who .....

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