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NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

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10/23/2015

... The idea for the webinar grew out of an interview I did with NoVo Foundation’ s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers ... pay attention to women and girls of color. “There’ s...

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Tisch Illumination Fund Supports City Limits' Coverage of NYC Food Policy Issues

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03/03/2016

... director of the Tisch Fund. "For example, City Limits did a series on food access about 10 years ago that included ... NYC neighborhoods, and that was influential in the city’ s supermarket incentive...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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In the Eye of the Storm: How Federal Funding Rescues Arts and Culture in Times of Disaster

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09/07/2017

... continental US, and displacing thousands of families. It’ s too soon to tell exactly how much damage the storm has caused, but we know it’ s far-reaching and not over. As the country’ s .....

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Bank of America Announces Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts

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09/11/2017

... when areas of extended need have been identified. As it did with its Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, the company is ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Disaster Relief

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

... D.C. In turn, these initiatives build on JPMorgan’ s $150 million investment in Detroit, starting in 2014, and reflect sweeping changes in the bank’ s philanthropic strategy that were set in motion five years...

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Community Development

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New Tax Law Might Force Newman's Own to Put Itself up for Sale

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01/10/2018

New Tax Law Might Force Newman' s Own to Put Itself up for Sale Newman' s Own, the popular purveyor of philanthropic pasta sauce, ... year, but it was dropped over fears that the provision did...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches #Newmanitarian Campaign Asking People to Commit Acts of Kindness

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01/30/2018

Newman' s Own Foundation Launches #Newmanitarian Campaign Asking People to Commit Acts of Kindness Newman' s Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and ... your hand to those less fortunate?' and...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... step: to go "all in". That means moving the foundation' s $300 million endowment entirely into impact investments. As of the end of the year, about 60% of Heron' s funds were in such...

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Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe

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03/09/2018

... Parkland, Florida, the young gunman attended his mother’ s funeral and was asked if he was upset. His response ... through education is, on psychologist Abraham Maslow’ s famous hierarchy, a higher-order need...

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Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential

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03/26/2018

Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’ s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential New York’ s for-profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have ... at community...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight

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06/19/2018

... live long enough to make them all yourself.” It’ s in that spirit — and out of a desire to leave behind a ... is drawn from discussions conducted with Atlantic’ s former and current staff and board from around...

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Emmett Carson Steps Down as Silicon Valley Fund Admits Missteps

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06/28/2018

... billions of charitable dollars from some of the world’ s most powerful technology entrepreneurs, has left his job as ... statement released midday Wednesday, the foundation’ s board said that a recent...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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United Hospital Fund, New York Community Trust and Altman Foundation Launch Second Phase of Early Childhood Development Initiative

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07/09/2018

... to continue operating a Learning Collaborative , as it did in Phase I, to provide participating hospitals and ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

... “a relatively small sample of former athletes,” did not find evidence of early onset dementia in the retired ...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, pull out ... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Prairie View A&M University $500,000 to Support African-American Studies Initiative

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09/14/2018

... match, bringing the total support for the Initiative' s launch to $1 million. The project, Enhancing the Humanities ... African-American Studies content throughout the university' s liberal arts...

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New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism Behaviors

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11/26/2018

... That is the question staff and researchers at Westbrook’ s Spring Harbor Hospital, the Maine Medical Center Research ... adolescents with autism. “I’ve seen people where you did not know it was coming, and...

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Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

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03/04/2019

... women, who represent 38 percent and 50.8 percent of the U. S . population, respectively, but only 17.5 percent and 19.4 ... created 1.24 million more jobs between 2007 and 2015 than did male-owned businesses...

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