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Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... Social Innovation Award Recipient The Macquarie Group Foundation , the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has ...

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... according to research commissioned by the USA Swimming Foundation . More minority and low-income children are finding ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’ s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism The ... a Pulitzer Prize that helped spur the British newspaper’ s international expansion, is fully...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... Harvey Relief Fund through the Greater Houston Community Foundation that has raised more than $34 million. Another ... been raised through the United Way of Greater Houston’ s Harvey Relief Fund. . . Millions...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

... of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U. S . government to America’ s millions of nonprofits. While the news media is focusing on ... of nonprofit and corporate leaders, philanthropists, ...

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Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

Bloomberg’ s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal ... done so through the work of NGOs. Michael Bloomberg’ s taken some different angles so far, in that he’ s sought to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early ... a tenure-track or equivalent independent position in a U. S . or Canadian institution for...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... food system. The diverse group came from 12 states, one U. S . territory and Washington, D.C., to participate in a James Beard Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New ...

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Food Systems

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... the help of a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , came out of press director Alan Harvey’ s desire to “break the box of publishing.” “I wanted to ...

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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

What' s So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? The Walton Family Foundation recently pledged to invest more than $2 million to create new charter schools in New York City. "So...

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Education

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

Release Date:

09/28/2017

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University' s Workshop on TV News Preservation Archivists, librarians and ... television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , Vanderbilt will host the two-day “...

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Communications/Media

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20 Nov 2017

Census 2020: Funders Are Getting Ready Now - November Meeting

Monday, November 20, 2017 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... statistics, and much, much more. What is philanthropy’ s role in ensuring that the 2020 Census is adequately ... Joining by teleconference, Minnesota Council on Foundation ' s Bob Tracy...

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Time To Revisit Reporting

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... to reduce the burden on nonprofit grantseekers. But it’ s crucial that we turn back to the other end of the ... since the start: what if grant reporting is our field’ s missed opportunity? Too often, funders...

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by Comptroller Scott Stringer, Rep. ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the ... one of only four museums dedicated to Asian art in the U. S . The Seattle Asian Art...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

... Fund, created by Ms. Gund in partnership with the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts

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Talking Politics

Release Date:

02/06/2018

... published on the CEP Blog on February 1, 2018. It’ s said that you shouldn’t talk politics in polite company. ... grantees reassess what it takes to be effective in today’ s ever-shifting political climate...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Equalizing the Power Dynamic in Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/01/2018

... by Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women’ s Foundation You may have seen a recent report released by ... extolls the merits of participatory grantmaking. It’ s gratifying to...

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