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Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship

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08/05/2014

... The New Museum has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand scholarship ... and urgent topics in contemporary art. “Major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon...

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How Institutions Take Risks

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10/12/2014

... and thinkers, the Rockefeller Foundation pivoted from its core public-health work to the heart-wrenching and ... business of saving scholars who were seeking refuge from the Nazis. In light of this episode and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... redesign American high schools. That was the big news from the first-ever White House summit on "next generation ... during a daylong program saturated with high-flown visions from policymakers, teachers...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

... back to the social movements I learned about as a kid — from women's suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, ... movements we've become familiar with, distinguishing them from movements of the...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... and authoritative information on what has been learned from research, data, and practical experience about ... approaches. The chapters in this book draw from and were commissioned by the Discipline...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they ... Findings in the report are based on survey responses from individuals who were either the most senior evaluation ...

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Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program

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01/17/2017

... for up to three years in support of a range of efforts, from tackling entrenched poverty to recruiting and retaining ... and rigorously measure progress on those goals. Officials from participating cities also...

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Community Development

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Aetna Foundation Supports 'Magnobrain' Educational Games for Kids

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03/27/2017

... Me to Learn” initiative founded by a grant of $30,000 from the Aetna Foundation. The concept of the games came from a need to help children succeed academically while ...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from tense to violent. The goal is to improve relations with ... crisis intervention training, but a report last summer from the U.S. Department of Justice...

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The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

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01/16/2018

... students, teachers, and parents advocate for their needs from City Hall to the State Capitol. The $740,000 in new ... in opportunities and outcomes for students of color, those learning English, students with...

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The New York Community Trust

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

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09/13/2018

... Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million Grants from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation will help programs ... Buffalo Museum of Science. "This is a program for students from backgrounds that are...

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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

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02/21/2019

... SIFMA Foundation’s Fall 2018 InvestWrite competition. From P/E ratios and ROIs to retirement planning and asset ... knowledge of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High School in Concord, to...

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Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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04/04/2019

... team at the newly launched ACT Center for Equity in Learning . Greg held several positions at the John D. and ... young adults in postsecondary education. Greg holds a BA from UCLA and earned his MBA ...

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Lessons on Movement Building

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06/27/2018

... In May, right before the images of children being ripped from their parents shocked the country, Roxsana Hernández ... the same time, Claudia Gómez González, a young woman from Guatemala, was shot dead by...

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The Restaurant Industry Is Structured on Racism. The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Wants to Rebuild It.

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04/14/2021

... to them by someone else. Without substantial support from the government, the chefs, waiters, dishwashers, ... immediate of crises. So in 2020, building on its momentum from the successful coronavirus relief...

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Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

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Food Systems

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Leadership Doesn’t Just Happen

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05/12/2016

Leadership Doesn’t Just Happen A message from the Chair of PNY, Philip Li, President & CEO, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; excerpted from his address to members at the PNY 37th Annual Meeting . ... I can...

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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Bold Family-Related Benefits to Meet the Diverse Needs of Its Employees

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04/25/2018

The policies apply to all eligible employees, irrespective of gender. The company will also be adding or enhancing benefits around adoption, child and elder care, and infant transition support. These policies, which are among the most comprehensive...

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Joan Mitchell Is Having A Moment

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06/11/2018

“As the art world looks back at male-dominated narratives, Mitchell is now gaining deeper recognition for her skill, persistence and depth of vision throughout her lifetime,” said Christa Blatchford, chief executive officer of the Joan Mitchell...

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