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WHO Foundation launches campaign for global COVID-19 vaccine access

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, Global Citizen, and other partner organizations, the Go Give One campaign calls for donations to the COVID-19 Vaccines Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC), a financing mechanism created by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, to ensure equitable access to vaccines in low- and middle-income countries….

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Foot Locker, LISC launch $3 million initiative to empower BIPOC youth

To be launched in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, the Community Empowerment Program will support efforts by nonprofit organizations serving BIPOC youth, as well as those led by people of color, to bridge gaps in health, wealth, and opportunity driven by racial inequity….

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Casey Foundation, partners expand child welfare initiative

Launched last summer in an effort to reinvent child welfare across the United States, the Thriving Families initiative will expand its efforts to jurisdictions in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and White Earth Nation….

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NFWF, food companies launch $5 million sustainable-grazing partnership

As part of the public-private Southern Plains Grassland Program, Sysco, Cargill, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will provide a total of $5 million over five years to accelerate the implementation of sustainable-grazing practices across a million acres in the Southern Great Plains, an area responsible for approximately 30 percent of the beef produced in the United States….

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Carnegie Corporation of New York president Vartan Gregorian dies at 87

A “citizen of the world,” a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Gregorian viewed foundations as stewards of a public trust and stressed the need for philanthropies to be open and transparent….

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Bloomberg commits $6 million for mobile COVID-19 vaccinations at HBCUs

The grants will support efforts by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine to expand mobile unit COVID-19 vaccine operations in Black and medically underserved communities….

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