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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

... bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Pro-life advocates rally under ... these are likely the kinds of images that come to mind— not those...

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

Ford’ s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington ... do good and bad things, including you. You can never know for sure what you would do in another person’ s shoes.” ... was still...

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Justice Reform

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NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director

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07/28/2016

... to Program Director : Irfan Hasan is responsible for our Health and Behavioral Health grants in our Healthy ... and the Global Fund for Women. Michele has a bachelor’ s degree from Brown in...

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... years immediately following the decision. The university’ s capital campaign raised $1.5 billion from 2003 to 2007, significantly surpassing its stated fundraising goal of $1 billion. A 2009 study found that...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... senior evaluation or program staff at foundations in the U. S . and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or members of the ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university' s most civically minded undergraduates. The award marks the ... during their lifetimes, a philosophy he describes as " ...

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The Wallace Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries

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01/17/2017

... Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries On a freezing night in ... young crowd filed onto benches in Mast Chocolate' s factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...

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Arts

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

... Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program The Schwartz Center for ...

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Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It

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05/19/2017

Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’ s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a...

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

A Pioneer Of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’ s Own Leads The Way For Others When the cocktail bar Coup–short for coup ...

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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

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05/23/2017

Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says Today, the Trump ... whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’ s...

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Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

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06/01/2017

... Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty" America’ s suburbs are enduring a crisis of poverty. Nearly 17 million ... stop this invisible crisis, philanthropists...

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy' s Public Health Projects Over recent years, without much ... fanfare, something fascinating occurred, a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’ In previous papers, University of Pennsylvania physicists investigated the “coffee ring effect,” the ring-shaped stain of particles left after drops of coffee evaporate...

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

... Having minority middle school students write a series of self-affirmation exercises focusing on core values ... them forward: teachers noticing their potential more, giving them more challenging work,...

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To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

... Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead One of Michael Bloomberg' s main contributions to the global fight against climate ... cities to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Bloomberg not...

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Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?

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07/17/2017

... is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It? How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country ... that elected a blatantly anti-immigrant president? That’ s a question lots of...

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Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation

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07/20/2017

... Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’ s Foundation The New York Women’ s Foundation is giving New Yorkers and tourists something to look up to in ... Lights...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & ... “Before Farm to Table will use the pervasiveness of food in everyday life as a window into early...

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