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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

... Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford' s Saïd Business School. Established in 2013 with a gift of £4.5 million ($6.6 million) from the ... to pair an MBA earned in a year with one of...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... that in five urban districts participating in Wallace’ s $50 million National Summer Learning Project, third-grade ... to six-week summer program for at least twenty days in 2013 scored modestly higher on...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

The Army Infantry’ s First Women The Army has sought to play down the ... the steamy woods from those of earlier generations. That’ s just how the Army wants it. After the Obama administration ordered the military...

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Gender Justice

Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard' s Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The ... in 210 countries and territories across the globe. In 2013 Mastercard launched the Mastercard Center for Inclusive ... to a range of...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious ... personality, crazy life story, and his and wife Marilyn’ s game-changing giving. But his...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Should Kids Be Sedated for Dental Work?

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08/30/2017

... for the dental staff to keep track of the patient’ s vital signs and quickly recognize an obstructed airway or a ... alarming lawmakers, parents and the dental profession. In 2013 , University of Washington...

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Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence

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09/08/2017

... of the Take Back the Tech campaign began meeting in 2013 and launched Ciberseguras as a blog to share resources ...

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Gender Justice

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

Report Finds U. S . Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace ... CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’ s already large racial wealth gap, far from narrowing, will ... household wealth...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

Documents Show NYC’ s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records ... sent an intriguing public records request to the city’ s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of ... I request all e-mail...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something to Say, a 2013 study of successful arts-focused organizations that ... larger, generalist...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supported Report Finds That Civic Tech Struggles with Sustainable Funding Despite Gains

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10/31/2017

... Paths to a Sustainable Future, was released by the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation with the Rita Allen Foundation Oct. 31. This is the Knight Foundation’ s first major report on civic tech since a...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’ s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013 . Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’ s Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced ... Chair Danielle Allen. Gerken is one of the country’ s leading experts on constitutional law and election...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces More Than $19 Million in Grants

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10/18/2018

... During the first phase of the Hilton Foundation’ s Catholic Sisters Strategic Initiative ( 2013 – 2018), the Foundation invested $105 million, the largest of all of the Foundation’ s...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for Change

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01/29/2019

... The Italian fashion house launched Chime for Change in 2013 alongside Beyoncé and Salma Hayek in an effort to unite ...

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Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees

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02/25/2019

Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation' s Board of Trustees The Ford Foundation has elected Henry ... six-year term. He credited Darren Walker, the foundation’ s president, with "keeping an open line...

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