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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... concentrates its grants on support for education, youth development , and the arts, with a focus on helping ... (10 nonprofits), health (18 nonprofits), and youth development (17 nonprofits)... How Nonprofit...

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The Wallace Foundation

Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

Release Date:

11/01/2017

... dollars), followed by human services (including youth development , 44 percent), and public safety (including legal services, 23 percent). And while program development was the most common support strategy (59...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change

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11/16/2017

Co-Impact will make large multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world

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Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant

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12/21/2017

... Poverty volumes . Both Yoshikawa and Aber are childhood development experts and co-directors of New York ...

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Russell Sage Foundation

Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the ...

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

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01/11/2018

... fostering an impact investing ecosystem is critical to the development of this sector.” The key aspect of the ...

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Supported By The Prudential Foundation, the National Fund For Workforce Solutions Selects Four Cities to Participate in Job Quality Initiative

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01/19/2018

... , will enable local employers to incorporate new skill development strategies and/or business practices that will ...

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Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize

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01/25/2018

Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize The Milbank Memorial Fund has teamed up with AcademyHealth to establish a new annual award that recognizes state and local efforts to advance...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Tell Them We Are Rising: A Documentary Film Breaks New Ground, Andrew W. Mellon Program Associate Emma Taati Interviews Director Stanley Nelson

Release Date:

02/13/2018

... on a fascinating journey starting with the early development of HBCUs and covers their contributions to ... America. Through its support of curricular and faculty development at a select group of HBCUs, The...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge

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02/15/2018

The Partnership for Freedom today announced the three winners of its Pathways to Freedom challenge. Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop citywide approaches to...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.

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Weinberg Foundation Announces Darius Graham as New Program Director

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06/20/2018

... for the Weinberg Foundation. “His expertise in strategy development and execution, as well as his strong commitment ...

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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing

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06/25/2018

... OS publishing platforms that are currently in use or under development . These systems, which produce and host platforms ... systems, and thereby encourage the adoption and continued development of OS...

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Wallace Foundation Names New Director of Arts, Bahia Ramos

Release Date:

08/16/2018

... final phase over the next year or so, Ramos will lead the development of the strategy for the next round of Wallace’s ...

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Journalism Needs to Reinvent Itself: A Q&A with OSF’s Maria Teresa Ronderos

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09/19/2018

... independent journalism, OSF altered its strategy for media development funding in 2014 by restructuring the ...

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Open Society Foundations

UN Secretary-General Taps UN Special Envoy Michael R. Bloomberg to Lead Climate Finance Leadership Initiative

Release Date:

09/27/2018

... billion per year by 2020 through a combination of public development finance and private foreign direct investment. ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Mike Bloomberg Visits Gary, Ind. for a Conversation about Community Building through the Arts

Release Date:

10/09/2018

... of visual art, offering culinary training and business development workshops, and providing cultural programming ... and cultural projects that play a vital role in Gary’s development and place-making,” said...

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Adam Gamoran, President of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spoke at GW University About How Universities Can Conduct Better Research

Release Date:

10/15/2018

... was hosted by the Graduate School of Education and Human Development . Following welcoming remarks from Provost Forrest ...

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United Hospital Fund Offers New Tool Kit to Curb Antibiotic Overprescribing

Release Date:

11/12/2018

The United Hospital Fund has released a free set of tools and guidelines to help outpatient medical practices more appropriately prescribe antibiotics amid the growing public health crisis of antibiotic resistance.