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Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

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01/23/2017

This innovative challenge is the first-ever to be modeled after the award-winning Rebuild by Design Hurricane Sandy Design Competition , which was pioneered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in partnership with The Rockefeller...

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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

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01/23/2017

A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...

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Immigration

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Aetna Foundation Survey Finds the Importance of Local Environment to Patient Health

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01/20/2017

Respondents to an Aetna Foundation survey said local aspects have a large effect on their health.

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Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

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01/20/2017

The William T. Grant Foundation's Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they socialized with on a regular basis — both in person and online — and then used the data to identify the most...

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Children, Youth and Families

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Continues to Support Nurturing Young Artists

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01/20/2017

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation supports the 2016 - 17 season of performing arts events at Centenary Stage Company.

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Arts

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Sarah Williams and Ella Gudwin Share Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/20/2017

After the Philanthropy New York program, " Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures ," Policy Fellow Shiza Pasha interviews Sarah Williams of Propel Capital and Ella Gudwin of Vision Spring about the...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

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01/20/2017

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.

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The Commonwealth Fund Outlines 10 Recommendations for Policymakers Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs

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01/20/2017

In 2014, the New York–based Commonwealth Fund established the International Experts Working Group on Patients with Complex Needs through a grant to the London School of Economics and Political Science. The group’s purpose was to outline the...