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Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

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06/19/2014

... Returns An evaluation has found that The Rockefeller Foundation 's Program Related Investments (PRIs) have contributed to the financial sustainability of its investees and are ... 12 years of PRIs,...

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

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08/01/2014

... for Obamacare begins this fall, NY State should take steps to make the process for signing up more customer-friendly, ... James R. Knickman President & CEO, New York State Health Foundation , in the...

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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

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09/08/2014

Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals As we go back to school this fall, ... too — what and how students are learning. The Wallace Foundation has offered six urban school...

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Education

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New After School Programs and Professional Development Bring Digital Literacy with Grants Totaling $414,000

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10/31/2014

... Literacy with Grants Totaling $414,000 Nearly half a million dollars in grants from the Hive Digital Media ... teens and adolescents use digital media and technology to get in shape, prepare for college, and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Valerie S. Peltier Elected Chairman of The New York Community Trust

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12/04/2014

... Committee, the governing board of the 90-year-old foundation dedicated to improving New York. Peltier succeeds Charlynn Goins, ... is one of New York's largest grantmakers. It gave $141 million...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

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05/04/2015

... resilient, says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation . Resilience, Rodin says, is “the capacity to prepare effectively, to rebound more quickly if something bad does happen,...

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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal

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05/13/2015

The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal NYC mayor Bill ... food, clean water and sanitation services for the 8 million people...

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... punished for the crimes their traffickers have forced them to commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid ... told The Huffington Post. But that system is starting to ease up for trafficking...

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San Diego Grantmakers Hires Beeta Jahedi as Senior Director of Learning and Programs

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06/22/2015

... Grantmakers launched a three-year fundraising campaign to build its capacity to better Unite , Activate , and ... Program Associate in the President’s Office at The JPB Foundation where she...

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Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America

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09/01/2015

Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America Feeding America® and Bank of ... through Give A Meal, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will give $2 more, up to $1...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, the country implemented a ... by Bloomberg Philanthropies—which also provided $10 million to push Mexico...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center

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03/09/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center The Camden ... plans to establish a national center, funded by $8.7 million from AARP, The Atlantic...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive ... When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation Forty-five ... news: The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation , has approved $5.4 million...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act .....

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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 ... Cities Accelerator, a partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and Unreasonable Institute, has...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, ... in to pitch Ackman and the board of his Pershing Square Foundation , not...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... billion, is a staff-favorite science philanthropist due to his quirky personality, crazy life story, and his and wife ... Simons' quiet climate change giving via his Sea Change Foundation , which is one of...

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