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Friends of the Children NY Gets $1.5 Million Pinkerton Grant

 

The Pinkerton Foundation Supports the Expansion of Reach the World’s STEM Afterschool Program

Reach the World, an organization dedicated to promoting global literacy for disadvantaged youth, has received funding from the Pinkerton Foundation to expand its STEM afterschool model program, dubbed the “GeoTech Club”, to ten additional sites.

Pinkerton Fellow Mehdi Mahraoui Meets with President Obama at the White House

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with DREAMers who have received Deferred Action and U.S. citizen family members of undocumented immigrants, in the Oval Office, May 21, 2013

NY1 Features Research Mentoring Program: Young Scientists at Work

The Science Research Mentoring Consortium: Opening Doors, Changing Lives

AMNH and The Pinkerton Foundation launch a consortium to expand their innovative programs to five other institutions.

Getting Into Real Life Science and Health Professions

Pinkerton gave a first time grant to the New York Academy of Medicine for this program to promote underserved female middle school students’ interest in, and career awareness of, public health, science, and medicine.

The NFP: Partners In Parenting

The Nurse Family Partnership, a wonderful program serving the needs of city’s most vulnerable young mothers and their infants, was featured recently in The New York Times. The Pinkerton Foundation has made grants of nearly $1.3 million over six years to support NFP’s work, including a special program for mothers who are homeless, incarcerated or in foster care.

Historian Internship Program Earns National Award

The New York Historical Society’s after-school program, a long-time Pinkerton grantee, won the 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. First Lady Michelle Obama presented the award at the White House.

‘Getting Out and Staying Out’ featured in the New York Post

Pinkerton made one of the first two grants to this innovative prisoner reentry program in 2004. Since then, we have supported GOSO with grants totaling $560,000.

John Jay College Awarded $442,143 Grant to Launch Pinkerton Fellowship Initiative

 

Jennifer Correa Joins Pinkerton Staff

 

Former Newsweek Chief To Lead Pinkerton Foundation

 

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