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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

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05/17/2017

Yale School of Management announced that $10 million has been raised to expand the Yale Program on Financial Stability and launch the “Crisis-Response Project," which will codify best practices and provide training that can help governments fight...

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Economic Security

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

The demonization of the American-Hungarian billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread from Hungary and Moscow across Europe and into the United States, with the 86-year-old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his money to force his...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

FarmerLink, a pilot project set up by a consortium to make small-scale coconut farmers in the Philippines more resilient to shocks like natural disasters and pests, and increase their productivity, takes advantage of mobile technology.

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Food Systems

The Rockefeller Foundation

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame Street characters will be bringing smiles — and education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe

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03/23/2017

The campaign against Soros in countries formerly dominated by Moscow appears to follow a template set by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose own crackdown on foreign-funded charities drove Soros's foundation out of Russia two years ago.

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

The law is widely viewed as targeting groups backed by the Open Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U.S. financier George Soros.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Appointments & Transitions

Ford Foundation Appoints Pradeep Nair as Regional Director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

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03/09/2017

A seasoned public and private sector leader, Nair brings deep regional expertise and more than 20 years of experience building partnerships among government, corporate, philanthropic, and civil society partners in the dynamic South Asia region.

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Ford Foundation

Meeting My Philanthropy Peers in This Incredibly Small, Incredibly Big World of Ours

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03/07/2017

David Biemesderfer of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers writes about WINGSForum 2017, which brought together about 300 participants who work for philanthropy associations, networks and support organizations from more than 40...

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Insights

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CUNY Publishes Paper on the Changing Role of the Ford Foundation in International Development, 1951–2001

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03/07/2017

While US private philanthropic foundations are small in comparison with other international donors, the Ford Foundation was an important international actor and the biggest player within international philanthropy for almost 50 years.

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