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Brooklyn Community Foundation Picks 20 Nonprofits for 2016 Spark Prize

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10/12/2016

... civic, business, and neighborhood leaders all hailing from Brooklyn chose the 20 finalists from a highly competitive pool of 150 applicants... Brooklyn ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements

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10/14/2016

... A new study, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, from North Carolina State University, the University of ... and that what drives Black students to engage is different from what drives Latino students...

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Coalition Rallies against Cuomo’s Proposed Nuclear Plant Subsidies

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10/28/2016

... subsidize three upstate nuclear plants with $7.7 billion from electric ratepayers over the next 12 years. A small group of leaders from the groups made their case against the so-called Cuomo ...

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East Harlem Gets $10K Grant to Preserve Nation's First Little Italy

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11/11/2016

... Avenue area in East Harlem got a $10,000 grant Thursday from the The New York State Council on the Arts and the ... it housed the largest concentration of Italian immigrants from the 1800s to the 1970s... East...

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Three Red Hook Nonprofits Are Finalists in Inaugural Brooklyn Community Foundation SPARK Prize

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11/28/2016

... Seventeen ae Brooklyn-based organizations, including three from Red Hook: Dance Theater Etcetera (DTE); Red Hook ... $100,000 will be awarded to five of the chosen finalists from the Brooklyn Community...

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award' Today 10 librarians from across the country were honored with this year's I Love ... and lifelong learning. The librarians were selected from nearly 1,100...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Health Foundation for Western and Central New York Names New President

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01/25/2017

... and Central New York has recruited a new president from a Manhattan-based foundation. Nora OBrien-Suric will join the foundation in February from the John A. Hartford Foundation, a $565 million ...

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Simons Foundation Releases Statement on Executive Order on Visas and Immigration

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02/14/2017

... order on visas and immigration to the United States from seven Middle Eastern countries. The world, and most notably our nation, has benefited greatly from the free flow of people and ideas across national ...

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Rita Allen Teams Up With Knight Foundation to Combat Misinformation

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03/13/2017

... Allen Foundation, Knight seeks ideas on “topics ranging from , but not limited to, the role of algorithms in news consumption, methods for separating facts from fiction, building bridges across ideological...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Digitization Project for the American Numismatic Society’s Back List of Monographs

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04/17/2017

... Society’s back list of monographs has gained funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The financial support jointly from the National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon ...

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UFT May Have to Dramatically Slash $182M Budget

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09/05/2017

... Court ruling that would bar mandatory “union dues” from government workers’ paychecks to support union ... dollars. The 187,000-member UFT collects $56 twice monthly from each teacher’s paycheck via automatic...

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MCC Signs $500M Compact with Nepal to Improve Power and Roads

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09/15/2017

... has been years in the making, also includes a commitment from the government of Nepal to contribute $130 million of ... funds toward the project, the largest upfront contribution from any compact country.....

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Follow a Community Organizer Teaching Undocumented Immigrants Their Rights

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10/02/2017

... immigration raids, as well as collecting vital information from some undocumented residents in case they're suddenly detained and separated from their children. . . Follow a Community Organizer .....

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Mark Zuckerberg Clashed With Facebook Execs Over Letting Employees Work On His Philanthropy

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10/02/2017

... to abandon the idea early last year after opposition from senior executives. Zuckerberg's desire for his two ... network's board of directors, according to court documents from a recent lawsuit...

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Harlem's Black Churches Cash in on Gentrification

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10/10/2017

... Churches are losing members but gaining profits from gentrification. Nearly two dozen churches have either ... high maintenance costs and the lure of millions of dollars from developers ready to buy in Harlem...

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... Society donates roughly $4 million every year to the Drug Policy Alliance and its electoral arm, Drug Policy Action, each of which supports decriminalization and ...

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