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Schott Welcomes Mark Paley and Roger Vann to the Board of Directors

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08/15/2017

... of issues including living wage, public sector employment diversity and police misconduct. In 1999, as president of the ...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

Today, the IBM Foundation announced the availability of Teacher Advisor With Watson 1.0, software that uses Watson artificial intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers...

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) board of directors elected new officers and welcomed five new esteemed members during its board meeting.

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent teachers. Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. Recognizing this,...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it.

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Food Systems

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

... Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that ...

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Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

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12/18/2017

Women in news philanthropy will help reimagine news in local communities. In cities like Detroit, Jennifer Preston and Katy Locker of the Knight Foundation, Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation, and Mariam Noland and Katie Brisson...

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Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

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01/11/2018

Five national organizations awarded grants, advancing the Foundation's $100 million commitment to impact investing

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New Study Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Identifies Nature's Strongholds

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04/23/2018

... strategies for ensuring that we continue to have a rich diversity of life in the region and all the benefits that ...

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Coral Bleaching Is at the Center of New Research Funded by The Zegar Family Foundation

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05/22/2018

... Foundation With a brilliance so stunning and species diversity so vast, coral reefs are perhaps the ocean’s most ...

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Julie Sandorf, President of The Charles H. Revson Foundation on Supporting New York’s Libraries

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05/30/2018

... brown, white—what I saw was a coming together of the diversity of our community, working shoulder to shoulder, ...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

The NoVo Foundation today announced $34 million—up from $20 million committed originally—in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among 1,000 applicants doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around...

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Social Justice

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Through Its Piper Fund Initiative, The Proteus Fund Works to Educate Communities About Judicial Independence

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06/21/2018

... be a challenge to build, given the political and social diversity of individuals and organizations whose lives are ...

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With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort

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06/21/2018

Firelight Media, the production company that documentarian Stanley Nelson (“Tell Them We Are Rising”) co-founded 18 years ago, created the Impact Producer Fellowship last year to train social justice-minded artists and activists of color. The...

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Report Funded by Helmsley Charitable Trust Looks at Human Well-Being in NYC

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07/03/2018

New Yorkers on average are faring better than Americans as a whole on key barometers of human well-being, yet deep and persistent disparities divide the city’s diverse population.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces 14 Finalists In The Running For Its 2018 Public Art Challenge

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07/18/2018

Proposals Address a Range of Issues from Sustainability to Immigration – Selected Cities Span from Anchorage to Honolulu

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Arts

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Ford Foundation Joins Funders To Launch The Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund

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08/13/2018

... which will go to advancing racial equity and promoting diversity within the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. ...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Creates Collaborative Fund To Support Justice Reform for Women and To Help Dismantle Mass Incarceration

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10/19/2018

New seven-year initiative will decrease involvement of women and families in all phases of the justice system

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Andy Warhol Foundation Board Names Julián Zugazagoitia Chair, Adds Three Members

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10/23/2018

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has elected a new board chair, Julián Zugazagoitia, and three new board members: Naomi Beckwith, Cary J. Davis, and Deborah Willis, Ph.D. Zugazagoitia succeeds Igor DaCosta, who recently completed his...

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