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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... havoc from which the island is still recovering. But the storm had a silver lining, too: stirring in Puerto Ricans an ... said Karina Claudio Betancourt, program officer for the Puerto Rico Project at the Open...

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Disaster Relief

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New Member Spotlight: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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12/11/2009

... We asked Christopher Percopo , Grants Administrator for the Trust, to share details about the organization and ... am really interested in, I try to find more articles about it — for example,...

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From Poverty to Giving Away Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream

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11/11/2014

... But even at a young age, he tells PEOPLE, "I had a thirst for what was beyond the horizon." His life changed in .....

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Elton John and Darren Walker on Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind

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12/01/2014

... on Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind It ’s hard to imagine two people coming from worlds as ...

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New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System

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01/14/2015

... Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System To aid U.S. policymakers and other stakeholders who make ... Medicine and National Research Council offers a framework for assessing the health, environmental...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Food Systems

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Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers

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06/08/2015

... of its Blueprints to Buildings Fund (B2B Fund) that will aid nonprofit developers in their predevelopment and project ... the nonprofits will complete predevelopment activities for several new housing...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box' This week, in ... North Carolina, Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice described his journey from...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges The report -- titled ... were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. It was written by Robert Shireman, a senior...

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American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home

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04/15/2016

... restoration project in Cuba. Dupont and his team will aid in the construction of a new archival storage facility at ... Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. Once completed, it will be the first building...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

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05/03/2016

Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective The U.S. government has ... Since 2004, the U.S. President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has supported...

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Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks

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08/10/2016

... in philanthropy about what’s happening in our country." It all started with Ford Foundation CEO Darren Walker, who .....

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NY Community Trust Releases Report on Collaborative Funds

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08/16/2016

... we’ve made the City’s public school system better for all students; led the fight against AIDS in New York ... affordable housing and the organizations that support it . We’ve turned young digital consumers...

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The New York Community Trust

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Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

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11/02/2016

How important is Judith Rodin? Ask one of the 20,000 New York public school students who got to see the Broadway hit "Hamilton" because of her and they might say she is life-changing.

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Ford Foundation Awards NABJ Grant Ahead Of Its 42nd Annual Convention And Career Fair

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08/09/2017

Days before kicking off its annual convention, the National Association of Black Journalists announced the Ford Foundation has granted $150,000 to the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation.

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Syria’s War Created Millions Of Refugees. Some Might Be Forced To Return Home.

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... refugees begin to trickle back to a homeland still at war, aid agencies fear that a proposed change to U.N. guidelines ... in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) deemed...

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More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer

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08/30/2017

... flooding in the Houston area has grabbed more attention, aid officials say a catastrophe is unfolding in South Asia. . ...

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

... on stage together, which produced more than $85 billion in aid pledges. Other groups holding meetings that week to focus ... can play include the World Economic Forum, famous for its annual meeting in Davos,...

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What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... school funding: how much districts receive and whether aid is targeted to the neediest districts. Then, in part two ...

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Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program

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09/11/2017

... back a plan pushed by Democrats to pair hurricane relief aid to a short-term hike in the debt ceiling along with a ... to the legislative push to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program...

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