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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fund much of the U.S. government’s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. The report, U.S. ...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

... Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project The New England Foundation ... for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project and new...

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Arts

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... and Police Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been heightened in the current climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US ... dropped...

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15 Mar 2010

NYS Education Commissioner David Steiner: A Conversation about Teaching Effectiveness

Monday, March 15, 2010 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... ATTEND: All funders interested in education in New York State . PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Commissioner Steiner will lay out his key priorities as head of the State Education Department to improve...

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College and Career Readiness: Are We Measuring What Matters?

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06/11/2013

... economy, students must be well prepared for the demands of college and the workplace. Entering college ill-prepared ... security of their family. It’s also important to city, state and...

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Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All

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11/03/2022

... all students during the pandemic expired, forcing hundreds of thousands of food-insecure students to go to school hungry. Since ... schools serving more than 700,000 students across New York State...

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New York Health Foundation

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Can Philanthropy Help Shape the Next Economy? A Workshop Series for a Just Transition

... future? Funders and affinity groups across a wide array of sectors and constituencies have come together to organize ... , and Ford Foundation ) Missed the program? View resources and the livestream recording...

Dodge Foundation Participates in Discussion of How Arts Organizations Help Drive Downtown Revivals In NJ Cities

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10/22/2015

Dodge Foundation Participates in Discussion of How Arts Organizations Help Drive Downtown Revivals In NJ ... for education, environmental and other programs, but the state ’s relatively small yet steady support for...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years

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06/19/2017

... Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ... Affordable Care Act's taxes. But the decrease of federal spending...

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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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12/12/2017

... that build progressive political power in states of critical electoral importance.' The fund has invested $1 ... 2018 mid-term election, which will determine party control of Congress and the 2020...

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29 Mar 2012

Strategic Partnerships: Unlock the Keys to Maximizing Cross-Sector Relationships

Thursday, March 29, 2012 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... nonprofits come together to achieve a goal. The results of high quality partnerships can be powerful, yet the hard ... to discover and effectively maximize the strengths of each organization requires...

The Burke Foundation Awards Support to Help Young Children and Families Thrive

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01/21/2021

... Burke Foundation awarded $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to non-profit organizations in New Jersey working to ... well-being and resilience of children and families in the state . New...

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Ford, Mellon, Doris Duke, Kellogg, and MacArthur Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy

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06/11/2020

... economy shut down in March, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, fielded a stream of phone calls from the heads of dozens of organizations that Ford supports...

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Disaster Relief

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Funding the Future of Activism

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02/04/2013

... Director, North Star Fund At a time when our city, state and nation are in great need of effective organizing for equality and justice, North Star ... likely to attend the most troubled schools with the fewest...

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Burke Foundation and New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Launch Alliance to Promote Maternal Health and Child Development

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01/05/2023

Burke Foundation and New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Launch Alliance to Promote Maternal Health and ... to delivering prenatal and pediatric healthcare, to 50 sites by 2026. Though among the...

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Gender Justice

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Three Ways Funders Delude Themselves About Equity

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04/26/2017

... part, want to do the right thing and operate with the best of intentions. But within those good intentions, funders too ... geography. It seems elementary, but investing time and resources to gain clarity...

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William T. Grant Foundation Website Gets New Look

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07/01/2014

... has launched a new website and logo, along with the debut of the blog, "Researchers Digest" that features guest .....

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Education

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... they all mean? Consumers around the world navigate a range of date labels on food products, and the resulting confusion ... food waste, save their families money, and conserve resources to protect our planet...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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TCC Group Releases New Report: How Philanthropy Support Organizations - Understand & Advance Community Power Building

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11/06/2020

... Understand & Advance Community Power Building (22 pages, PDF ), looks at how philanthropy support organizations (PSOs) ... advance strategies aimed at building power in communities of color and for other...

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