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Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away

Release Date:

08/16/2018

Joyce Marie Joyce Marie Bove, age 67, of New York City, formerly of Stoneham, MA passed away on August 15, 2018 at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

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The New York Community Trust

Newman's Own Foundation Launches New Website to Share the Common Good

Release Date:

09/12/2018

Newman's Own Foundation, announced today the launch of CommonGood.com - a new web platform dedicated to sharing uplifting stories to highlight the good works of people, communities, and organizations from around the world.

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Newman's Own Foundation

The Ford Foundation Takes Another Stand On Census

Release Date:

10/19/2018

The Ford Foundation has created a new video, Stand Up for the Count, to explain the importance of the census data.

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Census 2020

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Ford Foundation

With Support From UJA-Federation Of New York, The Mayor’s Office For People With Disabilities Launches The First Cyber Security Training For People With Disabilities

Release Date:

10/23/2018

This program uses a train-to-place model that will prepare individuals with disabilities to secure employment in the cyber security industry. It delivers an industry-recognized Cisco certification program through a curriculum adapted to suit various...

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Disabilities

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UJA-Federation of New York

JPMorgan Spreads its Urban Development Money to Paris

Release Date:

11/05/2018

The bank will contribute $30 million over five years to programs to teach job skills and expand small businesses in Seine-Saint-Denis and other places with high unemployment and poverty, JPMorgan said in a statement provided to Reuters.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

Release Date:

11/13/2018

Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Current approaches to science in many classrooms do not reflect this...

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Russell Sage Foundation Grantees Cited in NY Times on Disputed Timeline for When Whites Will Assume Minority Status in US Population

Release Date:

11/29/2018

In a nation preoccupied by race, the moment when white Americans will make up less than half the country’s population has become an object of fascination.

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Census 2020

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Russell Sage Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Begins a New Chapter

Release Date:

02/06/2019

It’s a new day at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation with new CEO Nicole Taylor a few weeks into her job. The nonprofit veteran says her biggest goal in this time of transition is to listen. She’s been meeting with staff members, board members...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Launches Loan Fund to Boost Minority Entrepreneurs

Release Date:

02/13/2019

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is spearheading a new $6.65 million investment fund aimed at helping minority entrepreneurs get access to low-cost loans.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Pennsylvania Joins Skillful State Network, Initiative of the Markle Foundation

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04/18/2019

Governor Tom Wolf is taking more action to help create a highly qualified and competitive workforce.

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Workforce Development

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Mississippi Architects Take on Citywide Hunger Problem With Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies

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05/06/2019

By more than one measure, Jackson, Mississippi, is one of the nation’s unhealthiest cities.

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Will Distribute $2.5 Million Recovered Through Lawsuits Against Sham Cancer Charities

Release Date:

06/21/2019

Attorney General William Tong announced that $2.5 million will be distributed to cancer centers across the country as a result of a multistate enforcement action against sham cancer charities.

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Health

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/02/2019

New insight about a broad spectrum antibiotic agent, obafluorin, made from a fluorescent strain of soil bacteria might offer a powerful antidote to antibiotic resistance, researchers say.

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Health

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Four Foundations, Including Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Buy Historic Archives of 'Ebony' Magazine

Release Date:

07/25/2019

The foundations will donate the archive to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the Getty Research Institute.

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Henry Street Settlement Debuts Neighborhood Center in Historic Firehouse with Support from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Release Date:

10/29/2019

There was a ribbon cutting this week to celebrate the opening of the Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center at Henry Street Settlement.

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Community Development

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Flexible Funding Is the New Kid on the Block

Release Date:

03/04/2020

Over the past few months, a buzz has been created by the fact that some of the largest philanthropies in the United States have decided to increase their general support awards to their grantee organizations.