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Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office

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05/31/2017

... announced Wednesday it has hired Detroit native Kevin Ryan from the New York Foundation to be its new Detroit-based program officer. “[Ryan] will be working from Detroit and working with grantee partners there...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

... To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’s exit from the European Union followed by the unexpected victory of ... rebellion has assailed the establishment from the right, not the left. Suddenly, conservatives...

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

... of Columbia. Some 91 percent of these students graduate from high school, a success rate that has earned CIS ... wrenching reexamination of priorities for CIS to pull back from expansion to patch its...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

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06/30/2017

... a combination of dogged work and stubborn will, rose from a mis-remembering of The Surprising Adventures of Baron ... Munchausen: In it, the eponymous aristocrat pulls himself from a swamp—not by his...

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

... which is to transform relationships across the globe from “domination and exploitation” to “collaboration ... philanthropy, I got them both. They spoke to me by phone from their home in the Hudson Valley,...

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... MIT, which recently announced a $240 million commitment from the company to support collaborative artificial ... an effort to plant a stake in this booming field. Aside from the amount of the funding, there’s...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

... 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 feet away from you.” Needless to say, this has caught the attention ... but also the urban independent mom-and-pop retailers from which Bodega derives its name...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

... portfolio of low-cost, passively invested index funds from Vanguard, with 70 percent invested in stocks and the ... that actively managed portfolios will beat indexes from time to time... Ford Releases...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... care for her family. Years later, when her mom passed away from cancer, Danielle struggled to return to work. Her ... skills, and regained her confidence. After graduating from STRIVE, she was handpicked to...

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Arcus Funds LGBTQ Capacity Building Grants In An Under-Resourced Region

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11/02/2017

... at Funders for LGBTQ Issues, the fund has drawn support from the Arcus Foundation, the Chartrand Family Foundation, ... between them. Instead of relying on a trickle of support from national funders, Out in...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce The Selection Committee For 2017 U.S. Mayors Challenge

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11/29/2017

... cities. "We're glad to have such a dynamic set of experts from around the United States making up this committee. ... Cities Initiative, a suite of new and expanded programs from Bloomberg...

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New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education

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12/01/2017

... as quality, affordability, and completion. With support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Academy ... income into account to help prevent the borrower from defaulting. Track students across...

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Michael J. Fox Foundation and Simons Foundation Making Waves in Basic Science

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12/01/2017

... research will be “transformative.” This push comes from continued fiscal belt-tightening that limits the number ... Fischbach notes. “When the study sections can give out from two to five grants each cycle out...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers

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12/07/2017

... Affairs study supported by the Commonwealth Fund. Revenue from public coverage has more than doubled since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), growing from a combined total of $92.5 billion in 2010 to $...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Named One of Nation’s Top Funders Addressing Aging America

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12/15/2017

... Top Funders Addressing Aging America Recent grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation are one of the few ... over 65 has ballooned to 49.2 million this year, up from 35 million in 2000. That number is...

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

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01/09/2018

... step in the development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes that the research, published in ... severe pain but also trigger a wide range of side effects from nausea, numbness, and...

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New Report Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Details Macro-Economic Benefits of Reducing Road Traffic Crashes

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01/10/2018

... management and regulations have not kept pace. Death rates from traffic injuries in 2015 reached 34 per 100,000 in the ... the largest percentage of death and long-term disability from crashes affect prime...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 5 Winners of Annual Spark Prize

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01/11/2018

... will be awarded $100,000 in general operating support from Brooklyn Community Foundation. The organizations were selected from a competitive pool of over 130 applicants by a ...

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Mayor De Blasio and The Rockefeller and Pinkerton Foundations Launch 'CareerLift'

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01/17/2018

... Youth Employment (CYE). Spearheaded by an $850,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, the pilot aims to grow ... will open a pathway of possibilities for more young adults from some of the City's most...

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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem Disciplines

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01/18/2018

... at the graduate level. Funded by a $1 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the University Center of ... generation, this endeavor applies intellectual energies from the perspectives of multiple...

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