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OSF Explores Using Blockchain Technology to Help Migrants

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01/26/2018

OSF awarded a $100,000 grant to the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University, which is exploring using blockchain and other new technologies to record rights violations and atrocities.

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

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01/26/2018

Women make up just 21% of attendees at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of elite politicians, central bankers and financiers in Davos, Switzerland. Most of the panels at the summit are also dominated by men.

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Gender Justice

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Deutsche Bank, Newman's Own, MetLife, Fortitude Fund, and FB Heron Foundation among list of Funders Supporting the Nonprofit Investing Directly in Poor Families

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01/26/2018

It’s not often that a nonprofit touts how much it isn't doing to help low-income Americans, but that’s a key pitch of the Family Independence Initiative (FII) . And funders are listening.