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Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development

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03/15/2016

Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City ... will be joining the organization as its new Director of Development. Shigaki comes to the Mayor’s Fund from...

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

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03/28/2016

... When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest children, he...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... address rising sea levels. In partnership with the City of Norfolk's Resilience Office and 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation , Sandia analyzed the risk to important...

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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

... news: The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation , has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to ... the city. The Trust is also...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

... Production Initiative grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . A darkly comic epic, Oslo tells the true, but until now, untold story of how one young couple, Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul (to be ... top...

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... Climate Accord Approved at U.N. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework ... 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The formal adoption of the agreement on Friday, April 22 by the...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

... Support Teacher Leadership Projects The U.S. Department of Education is collaborating with ASCD and the National ... and programs that can transform the academic trajectory of students. These teacher-led...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... Fight Food Waste With Feast On Tuesday May 10, thousands of New Yorkers will feast on food that would have ordinarily ... in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC,...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... Social Workers The New York Community Trust (NYCT), one of the nation’s largest community foundations, has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

... whether supportive housing could change the trajectory of families facing a number of destabilizing factors that can lead to homelessness, open ... known as “Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness...

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... Librarian Award. The award recognizes the public service of exceptional public, school, college, community college or ... York City on Nov. 30, 2016, hosted by the philanthropic foundation and award sponsor,...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... happen. “This unusual alliance, there has been a lot of talk about that,” said Tonya Bonitatibus, the executive director of the environmental group Savannah Riverkeeper. “I would ... said there are a few other...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

... "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation , and it discussed what he called "America’s ... unpaid internships, because I am, improbably, a member of...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped ... New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the surfaces of the space station including the air. Based on NASA's data, ... new research partnership between NASA and...

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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

... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... violence-free neighborhoods. Three years after the launch of...

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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 Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, ... in...

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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 ... are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course, but certainly better than any...

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Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education

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12/14/2016

Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education More parents today are ... inequality, according to a new study by a University of Kansas professor. “Young adults from families in...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than ... about their retirement and even loneliness. On behalf of The Rockefeller ...

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