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Borealis Philanthropy

$2.5 Million Fund to Bolster NYC Human Service Providers

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12/11/2013

... with access to specialized financial expertise and resources such as individualized business planning, financial ...

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Community Development

Human Services

United Hospital Fund Backs Initiative to Address Depression Among CUNY Students

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05/22/2015

... to Address Depression Among CUNY Students The grant will address untreated depression among CUNY students ... and pilot testing a student awareness campaign and resources , and using student "health...

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Education

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United Hospital Fund

Can Theology Move the Needle on Environmental Issues? Henry Luce Foundation Thinks So

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01/18/2017

... environmental leadership initiative. It’s a three-year grant in partnership with the Interfaith Center for ... goal of the initiative is to establish best practices and resources for those looking to engage...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Henry Luce Foundation

UH Launches First U.S. Digital Humanities Research Center for Latina/o Studies with Funding from Mellon Foundation

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08/15/2017

... 1960. The two-year fellowship is funded through a $167,700 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The center has ...

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Education

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Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

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09/29/2017

... Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford Foundation to support the expansion of its ... NYFA, a national arts organization with a myriad of online resources for artists, will work...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Arts

Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

Google announced new online tools and more than $1 billion in funding for nonprofits that seek to close gaps in education and the labor market nationwide.

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Workforce Development

New York Life Foundation Announces New National Initiative to Help Schools Support Students Who Have Lost a Parent or Loved One

Release Date:

10/11/2018

... to give presentations about grief in schools and the resources available for educators. Schools then have the opportunity to receive a grant if they strive to become grief-sensitive. In ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Warhol Foundation Expands Regional Regranting Program to Cleveland & Denver and Reinstates Baltimore Program

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12/11/2018

... Arts Realty Corp (BARCO). With the addition of these three sites to its roster of 11 others across the country, the ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Increases Investment in Funding Prison Education and Re-entry Programs

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06/13/2019

... M. Tobin. “Prison classrooms can and should also be sites of curricular innovation in the humanities and a ...

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Community Development

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For Jobseekers: What is a foundation?

Publication date:

04/2014

... the work of other nonprofits providing services for the common good. A foundation is an entity that is established as ... religious, or other charitable activities serving the common welfare, primarily through grantmaking. U.S. private ... from the public; donor-advised funds are among the most common ways community foundations raise public funds. An ...

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Ford Foundation

NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

Release Date:

08/09/2016

... dedicated to improving our region through strategic grant making, civic engagement, and smart philanthropy. NY ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Communications/Media

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New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

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06/16/2014

... posts with innovative ideas, but often lack the necessary resources to execute them," said Chris Stone, president of .....

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Rehabilitates Parks to Celebrate and Preserve Mexican History

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03/03/2015

... Foundation (TRF) is pleased to announce a $1 million grant from The Tiffany & Co. Foundation in support of the ... and environmental heritage. The Tiffany & Co. Foundation grant supports the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

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09/27/2017

... million can solve, and how.” We proposed a $100 million grant —large by any standards—to be awarded by a ... solved if they receive this kind of focused attention and resources at scale with need. Conversely,...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to establish the ... of labor, civil rights and equality history. The grant will fund one fellow to work under a...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

Release Date:

10/05/2018

... To this end, the Foundation has awarded JSTOR a grant of $750,000 for developing a digital tool, with a parallel grant of $700,000 to Dumbarton Oaks for the research and ... contextualize, and disseminate...

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Children, Youth and Families

14 Sep 2017

Time of Opportunity: Best Practices in Summer Learning (Part 2)

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

This program is the second part of a two-part series. The first part was a site visit to a model summer learning program at PS 48 in Jamaica, Queens. Research has demonstrated that summer learning loss is one of the most significant causes of the...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards $2 Million in 2015 to Nonprofits Empowering Borough’s Vulnerable Youth

Release Date:

11/23/2015

... Program is the Foundation’s largest competitive grant distribution, prioritizing support for community-based ... a threefold increase in the Foundation’s average grant size Grants serve youth boroughwide as...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Org

Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges

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07/18/2017

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Associate Kristen C. Ratanatharathorn on the US-UK task force currently developing a framework to address the challenges of preserving email correspondence.

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