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MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa

Release Date:

01/21/2015

... launched a $50 million challenge fund to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Africa by enabling businesses to begin or expand financial services in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. "Over the...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

Release Date:

01/28/2015

... October 2012. “There were the low-lying neighbourhoods of Staten Island exposed to sea rise, flooding and storm ... people’s lives destroyed.” Rodin, who became president of US philanthropic...

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

Release Date:

02/10/2015

... Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School President Obama’s November report on Women and Girls of Color was an important step, inviting attention to reduce ... girls in particular, face many of...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

The Schott Foundation for Public Education

RPA, Ford and MasterCard Support Bogata Convening on World Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/12/2015

... Programme (UNDP), Foundation Center, and a committee of leading foundations guided by Rockefeller Philanthropy ... (RPA). The event is the second in a planned series of workshops to facilitate an exchange...

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

NYSHealth Releases First-Ever Payment Reform Scorecard

Release Date:

05/01/2015

... reinvesting in the Medicaid program. Similarly, a key goal of the SHIP is to ensure that, within five years, 80% of New Yorkers are cared for under value-based payment ... of care in New York...

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New York Health Foundation

24 Feb 2016

The Art of Moving Research to Impact

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Many nonprofits and foundations recognize research as essential tool for impact - whether the desired end is to advance knowledge, improve the quality and credibility of research in a discipline area, or move...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

Release Date:

05/04/2015

... can weather them by becoming resilient, says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Resilience, Rodin says, is ... something bad does happen, and then to revitalize and grow as...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

Release Date:

06/11/2015

... Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced a $10 million gift from the ... The research will focus on the changes tumors undergo as they become resistant to drugs—the...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Leads Foundations Toward 100 Percent Impact Investment

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... they often assume that foundations must be doing the bulk of impact investing. In fact, relatively few are actively doing it. In her President ’s letter issued last month, Clara Miller wrote, ... shares,...

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New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'

Release Date:

07/08/2015

... Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population' For many women in their 60s ... older, Social Security checks are the all-important means of survival. But for older...

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Aging

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability Initiatives

Release Date:

07/29/2015

Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability ... — including notorious dark spots for the industry, such as human rights abuses and environmentally reckless mining operations...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

Release Date:

08/04/2015

... In addition to her extensive publishing track record of books on poverty, Alice O’Connor’s Ford credentials ... comments on the new strategy announced by Ford Foundation president Darren Walker worth...

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OSF to Continue Grantmaking in Russia

Release Date:

08/10/2015

... in Russia In a statement on the foundation's website, president and CEO Chris Stone wrote, "In recent days, several ... Open Society Foundations to be banned from work in Russia as a so-called...

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Open Society Foundations

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

Release Date:

08/19/2015

... Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts The University of Oklahoma is the recipient of a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... staff in the fields of classics and letters...

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Mellon Foundation

Tiffany & Co. Foundation Woodland Gardens Exhibit Unlocks the Magic of Aquatic Life

Release Date:

08/20/2015

... Co. Foundation Woodland Gardens Exhibit Unlocks the Magic of Aquatic Life After ten years and $16 million, the ... SeaGlass Carousel opened for a media preview today, ahead of its official first day tomorrow,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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

Release Date:

09/01/2015

Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America Feeding America® and Bank of America today announced the launch of the fourth annual ... of Americans...

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

Release Date:

09/02/2015

... scholarship and teaching in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “We are grateful for the Foundation’s partnership as we launch key initiatives to advance the use of technology...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

Release Date:

09/24/2015

... Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of...

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Immigration

International/Foreign Affairs

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The Century Foundation

Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience

Release Date:

10/22/2015

... Conscience "Today’s announcement from the Department of Labor to allow pension funds to consider the full-range of ... investment decisions, and should be taken into account. As a...

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

Release Date:

11/03/2015

... In the United States, it's estimated that 75 percent of all jobs will require STEM (Science, Technology, ... And yet students, particularly women, are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their skills...