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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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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

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01/03/2017

Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust The Trust and the New York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help ... issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers in...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Release Date:

01/06/2017

... tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities to grow their market share in ... R. Bloomberg, then in his second term as mayor of the City of New York,...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’s population is expected to be urban by 2050. ... Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and...

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Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program

Release Date:

01/17/2017

... major challenges through innovation and improve quality of life for their residents. The third cohort of cities in the foundation 's Innovation Teams program — Anchorage, Alaska; .....

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged In 2016, the NoVo Foundation , a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’s ... a global hub for people working on those issues. As part of the planning, NoVo has...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from ... for her hard work. Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential...

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Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems

Release Date:

02/09/2017

... for a Competitive Inner City and the Rockefeller Foundation warns. Based on an analyses of food systems in Los Angeles; Madison, Wisconsin; New ... City; and Portland, Maine, the report, The Resilience...

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Supported by Surdna and NY Community Trust, Study Shows How Arts and Culture Improve Health, Safety and Well-being in NYC

Release Date:

03/10/2017

... according to a groundbreaking study by the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. And the results hold true in all five of the ... Agenda Fund in The New...

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Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue

Release Date:

03/22/2017

... physically. While I was there, I was struck by the number of women still facing abuse by their husbands or a male ... issues related to the family, including the regulation of marriage, polygamy, divorce,...

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

Release Date:

03/29/2017

... recently decommissioned home sat abandoned. The home’s foundation was saved and will be transformed into a ...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

Release Date:

04/03/2017

Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University...

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