Lee Wasserman Fights Climate Change with Rockefeller Funds
Release Date:
04/18/2016
The Rockefeller Family Fund divests from fossil fuels while dishing out grants to combat global warming.
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04/18/2016
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04/18/2016
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Release Date:
04/18/2016
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Arabella Advisors Director to Speak at 2nd Annual Food Tank Summit
Release Date:
04/18/2016
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New York Women's Foundation Celebrates Leaders in Philanthropy
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04/18/2016
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Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’
Release Date:
04/18/2016
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Will Philanthropy Join In The Fight To Vote?
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In the midst of this year’s presidential election, understanding the right to vote – and exercising this right – is critical to the future of the country. This issue has been at the center of American politics since the beginning, from the Founders...
American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home
Release Date:
04/15/2016
"Lookout Farm," the famed home of the late writer Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, will be restored using materials and funding provided by U.S. organizations, including the Caterpillar Foundation and Caterpillar Inc., the AT&T...
Jerome Foundation Helps Woman Filmmaker Get to Tribeca 2016
Release Date:
04/15/2016
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04/15/2016
The annual IAS/Kress Lecture Series in Italy, inaugurated in 2010 with the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, encourages intellectual exchange between North American art historians and the international community of scholars based...
Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care
Release Date:
04/15/2016
Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, one of three foundations that commissioned the survey, said advanced care planning “is not just an extra . . . it’s just as important in its own way as chemotherapy or surgery.”
Ford Foundation Supports Cultural Mission to Cuba
Release Date:
04/15/2016
Less than a month after the historic visit by President Barack Obama, a U.S. government cultural mission to Cuba will take place from April 18-21, 2016.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project
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04/15/2016
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Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab
Release Date:
04/14/2016
Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Surdna Foundation with in-kind support from the F.B. Heron Foundation. Upstart is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans
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04/14/2016
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Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts
Release Date:
04/14/2016
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04/14/2016
Scranton area residents are highly familiar with the good works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, with more than $2 billion in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits annually.
Rockefeller Foundation Joins Conversation on Flood Resilience
Release Date:
04/14/2016
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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing
Release Date:
04/14/2016
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