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Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

Release Date:

06/19/2014

... (PRIs) have contributed to the financial sustainability of its investees and are helping them accomplish social goals ... conducted by Arabella Advisors, covers 12 years of PRIs, including 18 transactions...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Joins Impact Investment Efforts

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06/25/2014

... Brothers Fund announced plans to dedicate 10 percent of its $840 million endowment to targeted impact ... investments. The foundation's commitment was one of more than 20 new private...

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What's Keeping Bloomberg Busy These Days

Release Date:

07/03/2014

... in the Philippines, Chile and Brazil. In a profile of Bloomberg in the July issue of Capital magazine, Dana Rubstein writes: "With Bloomberg ... former commissioners—with Everytown for Gun Safety (the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation and USAID Launch $100 Million Partnership

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08/04/2014

... Summit, the Resilience Partnership will institute a new model for solving the complex and interrelated challenges of the 21st century such as persistent and often extreme ...

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Economic Security

The Rockefeller Foundation

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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

Release Date:

09/08/2014

... their kids get the best ones? But what if, in the interest of educational improvement, we paused to examine the role of one person who rarely gets talked about, but who just ... has, traditionally, been...

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Education

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NYCT, American Express, Ford Support Launch of Caribbean Cultural Center

Release Date:

09/17/2014

NYCT, American Express, Ford Support Launch of Caribbean Cultural Center Caribbean Cultural Center ... to the public in September, 2015. Activities at the new Center will include visual art exhibits, workshops in...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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American Express

We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change

Release Date:

09/23/2014

... in the global battle against climate change. After all, new technology is revealing the impact of our daily consumption on the climate, and influential ... innovative solutions to address the most egregious...

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NYCT Funding Pilot Program for In-school STI Testing

Release Date:

10/17/2014

... a sexually transmitted infection, or STI. About 20 million new cases of STIs are diagnosed annually. Despite being a common, preventable, and treatable health problem, a lack of information,...

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The New York Community Trust

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Education

Health

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/20/2014

... get their children to become strong donors. The website of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund (No. 120), for example, now ... Fidelity reported a burst of giving after introducing a...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research

Release Date:

10/27/2014

Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research A new study has found that implementing stricter fisheries ... management overcame the expected detrimental effects ...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Food Systems

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

Release Date:

10/28/2014

... and middle-class families fall through the cracks, a range of institutions have set out to change the situation. Dozens of school districts, across 15 states, now help every high ... a handful of...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

Release Date:

11/10/2014

... to increase access to microfinance and other forms of investment capital for small businesses and individuals in ... inception UNCDF had secured USD 5.6 million. The new commitment from The MasterCard...

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

Release Date:

11/20/2014

... Programme (UNDP), Foundation Center, and a committee of leading foundations guided by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative to facilitate stronger philanthropic input ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

Release Date:

11/21/2014

Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ... and be more effective today announced its first round of...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

Release Date:

12/10/2014

... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in its infancy, its early expansion is a signal of what seems to be a shift in the way Americans are thinking ... that...

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Technology

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Open Society Foundations

How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact

Publication date:

12/2014

... How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact, a new learning brief co-authored by FSG and the Forum for Youth ... Impact Forum, provides examples and recommendations of public policies that use funding streams, regulations, ... public policies that support the five conditions of collective impact and ways that government structures, ...

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18 Dec 2014

Who Will Benefit from the President's Immigration Reforms? - Webinar

Thursday, December 18, 2014 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a new policy that could allow nearly five million undocumented immigrants, mostly parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, to apply for ... (DACA),...

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Immigration

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Building a Movement to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Philanthropy

Release Date:

07/25/2013

by Kelly Brown, Director, D5 Coalition D5 is a coalition of organizations committed to making philanthropy more ... But we are more than just that. We are a movement of dedicated people. And we are taking action...

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Insights

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All Funders

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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Food Systems