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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies The ... undergraduate curricular initiatives including UMD’ s First-Year...

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Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds

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07/30/2015

Wall Street Not Giving Up On U. S . Social Impact Bonds Social-impact bonds allow private capital to be funneled into philanthropic projects usually funded by ... to fund the first such program in...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives Every day we are ... refugees around the world. From those risking everything to cross the Mediterranean or the English Channel,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors

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08/20/2015

... Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors Fifteen years ago, as Charles Bronfman and his late wife Andy were ushering Birthright Israel into its toddler years , they inherently understood that next...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

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09/16/2015

... Bloomberg Philanthropies provides unrestricted grants to 262 organizations around the country to help strengthen ... groups that have been in existence for at least two years . Bloomberg...

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Arts

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Attempts Murdoch Ouster at News Corp. Annual Meeting

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10/16/2015

... a raucous line of activist shareholders, including America' s Evelyn Davis and Australia' s Stephen Mayne, queueing behind microphones to blast or praise Mr Murdoch over a few hours...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Communications/Media

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Crain’s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members

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10/21/2015

Crain’ s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members The top 15 foundations on Crain' s list have grown 14.3% compared with last year, once again ... how the fortunes of philanthropists are...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees

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11/05/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees The Rockefeller Foundation has ... beginning his first term in 2005. AfDB is Africa’ s premier development finance institution, with 54 member...

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’ s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize In January, our foundation put out a call to anyone in America with a promising solution to a social ... we offered 10 prizes,...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... when Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced a plan to establish 20 as the age of jurisdiction for the state’ s juvenile justice system. This would make Connecticut the ... and other states in the past...

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic ... and marginalized may experience. Foresight Alliance' s report aims to...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... developments in homelessness, the roll-out of the mayor' s affordable housing plan and key decisions by Albany .....

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot

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06/03/2016

... Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’ s $100 Million Jackpot NPQ has covered a lot of contest philanthropy over the years —and not always in a way that is wholly complimentary. ... Over the...

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Jeffrey Schoenfeld and Robert Kapito Appointed President and Chair of the Board of UJA-Federation of New York

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06/28/2016

... at Brown Brothers Harriman, as president and Robert S . Kapito, president and a director of BlackRock, as chair of the board. As UJA’ s chief voluntary officers, they will both serve three-year terms slated...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark ... expansion of the Universe. “We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... York City. Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to advance programming and services that directly benefit ... general operating support grant of $12,500 will be awarded to an organization or project...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

Bloomberg' s Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health Last week the World Health ... City mayor and billionaire philanthropist, is the WHO’ s new global ambassador for...

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Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families The Harry and Jeanette ... today welcomes community, civic, and business leaders to its Annual Community Gathering. This program...

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