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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S.

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09/03/2020

... Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S. NEW YORK, NY – Mike Bloomberg today announced ... $100 million to help increase the number of Black doctors ...

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Workforce Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Supporting Leaders of Color? Insights from “Showing Up to Share Power: A Conversation with Building Movement Project”

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05/09/2022

Supporting Leaders of Color? Insights from “Showing Up to Share Power: A ... Project” Leadership transitions are a complex time in the life of an organization. Increasingly, nonprofit .....

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

... Starts More than $275 million has been pledged or raised in the week since Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on the Houston area. The Rebuild Texas Fund, ...

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Environment and Climate Change

Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks

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09/19/2017

... Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks When Hurricane Harvey blasted ashore in August, drowning south Texas in a year's worth of rain in just...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

... from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and have begun preparations to identify which ... Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff...

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Education

Funded in Part By The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NPR Reports on Puerto Rico’s Financial Storm

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06/27/2018

Funded in Part By The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NPR Reports on ... Financial Storm Puerto Ricans are still rebuilding after Hurricane María devastated the island and its infrastructure last September. Since...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting

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02/19/2020

Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in ... This article was originally published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy on February 6, 2020 . If you want to know ... Dominican-...

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

30 Jan 2018

Exchanges, Scholarships, and Fellowships: Examining a Century of Foundation Funding of Individuals

Tuesday, January 30, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... via fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges. Funders have long recognized the value this type of giving brings: to connect individuals and their ideas ... Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational...

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Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

... W. Mellon Foundation – the nation’s largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities – today announced that ... newly developed curricula that both instruct students in methods of...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in Communities of Color

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04/30/2020

Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic ... Justice Coalition, Los Angeles CA Khmer Girls in Action, Long Beach...

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26 Feb 2020

Advancing Equity through Employee Ownership Models

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... across the country as ways to build and share wealth in low income communities and to address economic inequality. These models of employee ownership offer promising opportunities to build ... at the community...

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03 Aug 2017

VR For The Real World: New Tools To Make The World Better

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... are finding themselves more and more at the nexus of empathy and advocacy. Their goal? To create immersive ... VR works for social change, and what’s coming up next in this fast-moving field. Across the Line...

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Deborah McGinn Appointed Vice President for Finance and Administration at the William T. Grant Foundation

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08/09/2013

... as its new Vice President for Finance and Administration. In this position, she will work with the Board and its ... to manage the Foundation's budgets, audits and portfolio of investments. McGinn will...

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William T. Grant Foundation

25 May 2010

Funders Briefing on the Work of Advancement Project

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... York Members Briefing , presented by Carnegie Corporation of New York , Open Society Institute , Ford Foundation , The ... organizations to eliminate barriers to voting and assists in building power in...

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12 Mar 2015

Difret - Film Screening

Thursday, March 12, 2015 -

5:00pm to 9:00pm

... for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the film Difret and a brief panel discussion. ( Having trouble viewing the trailer? ) In Difret , a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl is abducted by a group...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

02 Oct 2019

Youth Voice: What it is and Why it Matters

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... for a session that will offer a framework and overview of different types of "youth voice" programs and methods. Panelists will share how participating in authentic youth engagement...

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12 Sep 2012

Pathways to Economic Mobility: How Can Philanthropists Help the Poor Build Wealth?

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -

9:00am to 4:00pm

Philanthropy New York, in collaboration with The Philanthropy Roundtable, will host ... financial services industry will discuss the importance of assets in low-income financial portfolios and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Surdna, Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation Sign Joint Statement Defending NEA Against Proposed Trump Budget

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03/01/2018

... , which, among other things, called for the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts. This week, the heads ... and McKnight Foundation — signed a joint statement in opposition to the proposed funding...

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12 Sep 2019

Always in Season - Documentary Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Jacqueline Olive

Thursday, September 12, 2019 -

5:30pm to 9:00pm

In partnership with Ford Foundation’s Just Films, we invite ... you to join us for the New York premiere and discussion of the Sundance award-winning film Always in Season . In...

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