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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

Release Date:

08/28/2015

... people from around the world will commemorate the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Although ... to support black-led grass-roots groups organizing to push for greater police accountability...

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North Star Fund

Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

Release Date:

09/11/2015

... Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Finds Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy Scientists at the University of ... blindness. The findings, published in the September 10 online issue of Molecular Cell, suggest...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative

Release Date:

09/11/2015

... today the launch of #MetKids, a new online feature made for , with, and by kids. The feature on the Met's website launches today, September 10 , followed by a public launch event at the Museum on .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

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09/16/2015

... recognized groups that have been in existence for at least two years. Bloomberg Philanthropies worked ... activities, selected grantees exhibited a potential for growth in their organization's management...

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Arts

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Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs

Release Date:

10/14/2015

... Have Trouble Managing Health Needs Nearly four in 10 older adults say that managing their health care needs is difficult for them or their families, that medical appointments or ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

The Atlantic Philanthropies

New York Community Trust to Receive $650K from AG’s Settlement with Fraudulent Clothing-Bin Operator

Release Date:

10/30/2015

... to used clothing collection boxes that drove more than $ 10 million into the coffers of a Yonkers business. The ... the Lower Hudson Valley and Connecticut. The bins made it seem as if the clothing was going...

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The New York Community Trust

AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

Release Date:

11/03/2015

... in Event on the STEM Workforce In the United States, it 's estimated that 75 percent of all jobs will require STEM ... 24 percent of the world's STEM workforce is women and only 10 percent is made up...

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Johnson & Johnson

Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/05/2015

... The 14-member board of trustees is responsible for overseeing the grant-making, budget and investment strategies for the 102- year-old global institution. Kaberuka was the seventh AfDB president, completing...

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Newman's Own Foundation Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Military Service Organizations

Release Date:

11/20/2015

... anniversary, Newman's Own Foundation today announced that it is awarding $1.5 million in grants to 29 organizations .....

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change

Release Date:

12/09/2015

Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change In Paris, President Barack Obama and ... Such a statement would have been politically unthinkable 10 years...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

Release Date:

12/16/2015

A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace Going to see the ... East 43rd Street in Manhattan, that is expected to close it for two years. When designing the suite in the 1960s, the ...

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DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust

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02/04/2016

... and family — three children, nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren — feasting on sopa de gandules and ... . . Cajigas' life, and his insistence on living it despite a painful hernia and heart...

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Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'

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02/10/2016

... report, the CBO said the deficit was set to widen in 2016 for the first time since 2009 and the 10 -year deficit would be higher as economic growth slowed due ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... Jewish Philanthropy' My grandfather, may his memory be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from ... of solicitations and joyfully write out checks for $5, $ 10 or $18...

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Jewish Interests

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UJA-Federation of New York

Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

Release Date:

03/04/2016

... 20 percent, creating 94,000 more graduates over the next 10 years than they would have prior to their involvement in ...

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

Release Date:

03/21/2016

... of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it ’s 10th annual Power of Women to Make a Difference Award ...

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Microsoft Joins Bloomberg, JPMorgan & Others in Supporting Smithsonian's Museum of African American History

Release Date:

03/25/2016

... corporate vice president of U.S. government affairs for Microsoft. “Microsoft is proud to support the museum ... $1 million from the Alfred Street Baptist Church, a $ 10 million gift from David Rubenstein, $1...

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MetLife

Aetna Foundation

Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

Release Date:

04/29/2016

Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks The Ford ... earlier serving as policy analyst and program officer for early education programs inCalifornia. Reich...