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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

... hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries ... Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development report . “Hundreds of millions of...

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Invest in Your Brand Endowment for Exponential Returns

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11/22/2016

... health and the strength of their endowment. That’ s a good place to start, but if it is the only place you ... Resilience Competition, The Rockefeller Foundation supported a series of resilience academies to...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

Individual Giving, Forgotten No More

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11/07/2016

... individuals accounted for 72 percent of more than $358 billion in charitable giving. I found this statistic fairly ... one month ago. However, as I reflected on our country’ s decades-old traditions of...

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The Commonwealth Fund

19 Feb 2019

True or False Solutions to Climate Change

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued in October made clear that “Limiting global ... that respond to the dramatic change called for by the IPCC report ? Some have argued for a carbon...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awarded More Than $84 Million in Grants in First Half of 2021

Release Date:

07/27/2021

... awarded to 42 organizations across the Hilton Foundation’ s program areas, in the U. S . and internationally. “In our grantmaking, we ... in mission dioceses in the U. S . through the US-Latin...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the nation’ s second biggest philanthropy. Not only will Ford direct ... operating support to 40 percent of the foundation’ s grant-making budget, projected to be...

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Brooklyn’s Crown Heights Residents Direct $100,000 for Inclusive Public Spaces via Brooklyn Community Foundation

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07/13/2017

Brooklyn’ s Crown Heights Residents Direct $100,000 for Inclusive ... Crown Heights neighborhood. The organizations receiving funding are Repair the World NYC, Haiti Cultural Exchange, ... by residents: inclusive...

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Brooklyn Org

OSF May Exit Hungary as Orban Purges Civil Groups

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04/20/2018

... Civil Groups Billionaire philanthropist George Soros ’ s Open Society Foundations, a group that funds dozens of ... to punish NGOs he supports. Orban has condemned the EU’ s multicultural democratic model,...

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NYSHealth Foundation Commits $2 Million for COVID-19 Response Efforts

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04/13/2020

... Foundation (NYSHealth) has committed $2 million in funding to support COVID-19 response and relief efforts ... care,” said Ellen Rautenberg , Chair of NYSHealth’ s Board of Directors. “Consistent with our...

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Resources on the CARES Act Relief & Assistance Opportunities for Nonprofits

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04/03/2020

... nonprofits with opportunities to receive additional funding , relief and assistance as a result of COVID-19. The Small Business Administration’ s Paycheck Protection Program begins the first ... process today,...

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Public Policy

Name a New Kind of Funder Action Meeting

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03/01/2017

... in the New York PhilanthroPost March 2017 president 039 ; s edition. One of the important messages we are hearing from .....

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Co-Impact Announces Inaugural Grants Totaling $80 Million

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01/16/2019

... the next five years across Africa, South Asia, and Latin America . The grants total more than US $80 million. This is ... The first-round grant recipients include: Liberia’ s National Community Health Assistant...

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... that demonstrate social good improvement committed $22.1 billion to 8,000 investments. All told, the emerging ... which is less than a decade old, has at least $114 billion in assets under management,...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Assessment of the Region’s Population Health Investments

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05/02/2017

NYS Health Foundation Releases Assessment of the Region’ s Population Health Investments A new NYSHealth-funded report , prepared by Lake Fleet Consulting, analyzes the New York State Department of Health...

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Lies, Bots, and Coronavirus: Misinformation’s Deadly Impact on Health

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07/31/2020

Lies, Bots, and Coronavirus: Misinformation’ s Deadly Impact on Health By: Brian Byrd, Senior Program ... American lives. According to a recent study, had the U. S . imposed social distancing one week earlier than...

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NY Women’s Foundation Announces Seven More Regional Young Women’s Initiatives

Release Date:

06/15/2016

NY Women’ s Foundation Announces Seven More Young Women’ s Initiatives ... that we cannot produce alone. In NY, we have created a report and are carrying out recommendations on changes ... the...

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Gender Justice

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Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

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01/26/2016

... 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there 039 ; s much less certainty about the size of these viral ... viruses," said Joshua Weitz, an associate professor in the School...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

... students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process. ...

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Philanthropy New York's Kimberly Roberts Interviews Julie Kashen and Rakeen Mabud, Authors of Nevertheless, It Persists: Disrupting the Vicious Cycle of Institutionalized Sexism

Release Date:

09/30/2020

Philanthropy New York 039 ; s Kimberly Roberts Interviews Julie Kashen and Rakeen Mabud, ... best contribute to the field, and honed in on the same gap : as a movement, we were very good at...