Environment and Climate Change

Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

Release Date:

05/16/2013

Health and Environmental Funders Network Program Manager Ramtin Arablouei shares the many risks associated with fracking that have caused concern among policymakers, communities and foundations.

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Environment and Climate Change

Small Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer for Reporting

Release Date:

04/16/2013

InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Related Organizations

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials

Release Date:

02/13/2013

An in-depth profile of Philanthropy New York’s “Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where Is Philanthropy?” conference.

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Public Policy

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Health

Social Justice

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Philanthropy New York

Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance

Release Date:

12/12/2012

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the launch of a new initiative led by Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute and the World Resources Institute to increase the transparency and accountability of climate finance adaptation programs.

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Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

Release Date:

11/08/2012

New York is one of the most vibrant urban agriculture cities in the United States, with more than 700 existing sites (there are nearly 3 times as many farms and gardens in the city as there are Starbucks locations).

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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Doris Duke Foundation

North Star Fund

To Frack or Not To Frack in New York: Observations from a Donor Briefing

Release Date:

08/16/2012

Hydrofracking has become a contentious topic across the country, and many eyes are trained on New York, where Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation are drafting final regulations on fracking in our state. We held a recent...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The New York Community Trust

Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

Release Date:

08/01/2012

As the North Star Fund's Food and Environment Program Officer, Abby Youngblood is responsible for leading the Community Food Funders project, which is a philanthropic organizing project providing resources and networking opportunities for funders in...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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North Star Fund

What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

Release Date:

07/01/2010

Why should people give money to nonprofits responding to the Gulf Coast oil spill? Isn't BP paying for the clean-up efforts? Penny Fujiko Willgerodt, the Executive Director of the Prospect Hill Foundation and an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Special Assistant to the President

Position:

Special Assistant to the President

The Overbrook Foundation:

The Overbrook Foundation (the “Foundation”) is a family foundation that supports organizations advancing human rights and conserving the natural environment. Founded in 1948, the Foundation has a fourteen-member Board of Directors and...

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Executive Support

Technical Program Manager/Grantmaking Operations

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Technical Program Manager/Grantmaking Operations

Position Details

Title: Technical Program Manager/Grantmaking Operations

Location: New York, NY

Reports to: Senior Grantmaking Operations Officer

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Grants Management

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