Boney to lead N.C. Network of Grantmakers as Hapgood steps down

Ret Boney is named executive director of N.C. Network of Grantmakers, effective May 13. A former deputy editor of Philanthropy Journal, Boney will succeed Bobbi Hapgood, who will continue her affiliation as a trustee of her family’s foundation.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Participants of ‘Untraditional’ Artist Residency Program

Grants totaling more than $1.4 million will support partnerships between artists and organizations working to create and pilot methods for reaching the public and developing individuals? interest in and access to the performing arts....

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine Receives $160 Million Bequest

The gift from the estate of longtime supporter Muriel Block, the largest gift in the medical school's sixty-year history, launches the public phase of a $500 million campaign....

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Melanoma Research Alliance Announces $9.6 Million in Grants

The grants, which boost to nearly $48 million the total awarded by MRA in its six-year history, will support melanoma research projects at twenty-six academic institutions in eight countries....

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Knight Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Nonprofit News Organization

The Texas Tribune will use a portion of the grant to hire two fellows to explore new revenue models, including the creation of premium content for specific audiences....

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Goldman Environmental Prize Announces 2013 Recipients

Now in its twenty-fourth year, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors emerging leaders from each of the world's six permanently inhabited continental regions who are working to protect the environment and their communities....

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Ford Foundation Shares Results of Grantee Perception Report

Based on survey responses from nearly two thousand grantee organizations, the 2012 Ford Foundation Grantee Perception Report gave the foundation high scores for advancing knowledge in grantees' fields and its involvement in proposal development....

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Nutrition Science Initiative Announces $40 Million From Laura and John Arnold Foundation

The grant will support three collaborations at six research institutions over the next three years that will investigate how diet, obesity, and obesity-related diseases are related....

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Ms. Foundation for Women Receives Bequest

The largest bequest in the organization's forty-year history will support the Ms. Foundation's primary grantmaking and advocacy efforts in reproductive health and economic justice, as well as fund general operating expenses....

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Volunteers honored for selfless commitment to improve their communities

In observance of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, please join Philanthropy Journal in celebrating a group of distinguished volunteers who always can be counted on to promote positive change in their communities.

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