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City Year Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the New York Life Foundation

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06/16/2015

... nonprofit organization that helps students to stay in school and on track to graduation, announced today that it ... its After-School middle school program with the support of a three-year $2.5 million grant...

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Philanthropy's Difficult Dance With Inequality

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07/08/2015

... easily use the word "inequality." This may seem surprising in the wake of the Ford Foundation's recent announcement that it will refocus 100 percent of its grantmaking on...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data

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04/26/2017

... Supports Cities' Ability to Tap Into Big Data In Mobile, Ala., building-code inspectors armed with ... able to inventory the city's 1,200 blighted properties in just eight days--a task that...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Names Meghan Jambor Interim Informed Communities Program Officer

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07/12/2017

... Director. She is assuming the responsibilities of Molly de Aguiar, who recently was named Managing Director ... Tow-Knight Center at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. In this expanded role...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

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08/09/2017

... Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation The Wenner-Gren Foundation for ... of culture and power. She is well known for her work in the West Papua...

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

... York City) — Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and ... leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Jen...

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New App Plentiful, Funded By The Helmsley Charitable Trust, Streamlines How NYC Food Pantries Feed The Hungry

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12/04/2017

... A new phone app and reservation system offers those in need of nutritional assistance a fast way to find a meal — just in time for winter. Dubbed Plentiful, it allows people to ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Food Systems

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Salesforce.org Join Other Techies to Help Aid Groups Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis

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03/16/2018

... there are about 65 million people displaced as result of conflict, and typically, they are displaced for a ... discussed one of the many benefits of connectivity in...

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist

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09/13/2018

... more than 1,000 applicants and led to over $7 million of investment in early-stage and scale-up projects to improve the way data ... “Tariq brings a unique combination of expertise in...

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Scientists Develop a New Tool to Boost Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Research with Support from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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12/06/2018

... Foundation Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new tool described as a ... guide the skin cells along a known path that will result in a new...

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Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

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01/16/2019

... To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration's ... "without curing the legal defects" the judge identified in his 277-page...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

... Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird collisions in Chicago and Cleveland suggests that birds disoriented by .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Animal Welfare

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative

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07/08/2019

... Initiative A proposal to continue the development of a digital publishing initiative at Stanford University has ... of Interactive Scholarly Works (ISWs) is recognized in the academic...

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Arts

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Children's Health Fund Launches New Mobile Clinic in NYC Made Possible by the Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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07/12/2019

Children's Health Fund Launches New Mobile Clinic in NYC Made Possible by the Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley ... continuous medical and integrated behavioral healthcare, in addition to mental health...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Open Society Foundations Names Samantha Stokes-Baydur New Head of Human Resources

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02/26/2021

... Society Foundations Names Samantha Stokes-Baydur New Head of Human Resources NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations ... Foundations’ people and culture strategy and operations in support of...

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María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

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05/15/2014

... today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism. Ronderos will ... to promote viable, high-quality media, particularly in countries transitioning to democracy. She...

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Schott and Arcus Foundations Partner to Empower Trans Students with Super Powers

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06/17/2016

... joins the country and the international community in mourning all of the lives lost and injured during the recent shootings in Orlando targeting members of the LGBTQ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School

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01/18/2017

... With Columbia Journalism School At a press conference in Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) ... as more experienced journalists and journalism graduates in a program that is exclusively supported by...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Mellon Foundation Supports First App Launched by Museum of the City of New York

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03/06/2017

Mellon Foundation Supports First App Launched by Museum of the City of New York The Museum of the City of New York launches its first-ever app, A Walk ...

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