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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

... world—is expanding. Through a $500,000 donation from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, GivePower ... Foundation, established with funding that came entirely from SolarCity in 2014, will begin to...

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David Berg Foundation Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum

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09/02/2015

... Jewish Museum has received a one-year grant of $275,000 from The David Berg Foundation to underwrite Free Saturdays ... visitors the Museum routinely tracks. Information derived from the surveys will identify...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arts

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Sept. 21 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ... integration into society, according to a press release from the National Academies......

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, Russia...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

... nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another. Mexico, which shares a nearly ... the source of the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

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02/01/2016

... is donating the money alongside a $25 million gift from Cheryl Glicker Milstein and Philip Milstein, and $20 million from Diana Vagelos and Roy Vagelos. The money will be used ...

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Technology

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Ford Foundation-Backed Incubator Generates $100M in Loans, Nearly $1M in Savings

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02/11/2016

... created by the Filene Research Institute, with funding from Ford Foundation, generated $100 million in loans and ... underbanked families. Filene received a grant from the Ford Foundation to launch the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

... The offshore wind industry’s efforts to distance itself from Cape Wind continued this week as the University of ... Offshore Wind, found that prices for electricity purchased from large-scale offshore wind...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... Gallery of Art announced a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could ... an initial $15 million that must be matched by $45 million from other sources over the next...

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Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College

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03/22/2016

... including stops and use of force. A $1.5 million gift from the Ford Foundation and another $1 million from Atlantic Philanthropies are creating the endowment to ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Justice Reform

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Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network

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04/13/2016

... that it had received a $25 million gift, its largest ever, from the hedge fund billionaire Julian H. Robertson. Success ... help it achieve its goal of expanding to 100 schools, from 34, within the next 10...

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Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

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04/21/2016

... initiative that aims to gather DNA and other information from 50,000 people with autism and their family members. ... be involved. The long-term study involves researchers from more than 21 medical...

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Health

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... beleaguered prisoner reentry effort is getting some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New Opportunity was ... called the Center for Community Alternatives, with funding from the Open Society...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan

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04/28/2016

... the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block the CPP from being enacted. The poll was conducted just days before ... place the nation's first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants.....

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Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’s Water Crisis

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05/11/2016

... $125 million to help residents of Flint, Mich., recover from the harm they have suffered from the city’s water crisis. The Charles Stewart Mott ...

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Tow Foundation, Columbia University Arts Announce Winners of Play Reading Series

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05/19/2016

... this year, the reading series awards three playwrights from the current MFA program and recent alumni with a cash ... Theatre. The reading series is made possible by a grant from the Tow Foundation... Tow...

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Century Foundation Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students

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06/02/2016

... for Better Results for Remedial Students A new report from the Century Foundation examines how to improve outcomes ... work topics to students' individual interests and shift from a "drill and...

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Century Foundation Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases

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06/07/2016

... school integration. Potter said teachers need more support from schools, such as occasional visits from school psychologists, and more wraparound services in ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees

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06/21/2016

... Into College Degrees Walter Ramos described his journey from Yonkers to Southern Vermont College in two words: ... other former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college...

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