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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren ... ranks as the most generous in terms of lifetime giving. To come up with...

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NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

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10/31/2016

NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member With a compelling ... the needy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation , has emerged as a prominent voice of...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism It is a truism that America has become ... a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries,...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty Fix one city and you may ... than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’s population is...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to a new level and is being honored for her hard work. Dimple Belani has been named one of...

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Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems

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02/09/2017

... planning for natural disasters must include efforts to protect and secure food systems for food-insecure ... for a Competitive Inner City and the Rockefeller Foundation warns. Based on an analyses of...

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

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03/29/2017

Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) continues to innovate to uplift its North End Detroit...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... Trust has announced grants totaling $5.2 million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How ... on the other hand, were a committee of five, equal...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a common disease that is ... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. She...

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early ... Ecology and Evolution. The three-year awards are intended to help launch the careers ...

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Get to Know Your PHIL Talkers

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05/17/2017

Get to Know Your PHIL Talkers by Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior ... This piece was originally published as the feature article of the May 2017 New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition We ... Facebook, the Craig...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and ... billion, is a staff-favorite science philanthropist due to his quirky personality,...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More. As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s ... the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity...

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas Nonprofits in flood-ravaged South ... Maislin, chief executive of the Greater Houston Community ...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg ... pledged more than $36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “It’s permanent ... As we’ve seen, permanence and solvability are front- of -mind for some of today’s leading...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building ... classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre wavy rectangle 200 feet off ... reached by two narrow bridges, replacing the remains of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where...

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