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Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

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06/19/2014

... Returns An evaluation has found that The Rockefeller Foundation 's Program Related Investments (PRIs) have contributed to the financial sustainability of its investees and are helping them accomplish...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Workforce Development

When It Comes To Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In

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06/24/2014

... Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In The idea of building a resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller...

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Disaster Relief

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

... education and health outcomes, compared with children of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child Development. Mother’s Education and ...

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Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children

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07/09/2014

... Support To Feed More Children The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to ... in 27 cities and 17 states. The grants are part of a $13 million Morgan Stanley commitment to...

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Food Systems

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Bloomberg Says His Work Is About "Saving Lives"

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07/14/2014

... save lives." Adds Bloomberg: "Particularly, I want the foundation to focus on things that other people aren't ... Gates is really the spearhead, but we've given him a lot of money. Malaria...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Barnard Receives Mellon Grant for Digital Access Initiative

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07/09/2014

... College has received $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a major new academic initiative: Barnard ... and digital design training at the International Center of Photography (ICP), Barnard’s...

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Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge

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07/22/2014

... neighborhoods, write Nancy O. Andrews, president and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation , in a post on the SSIR blog. Under the ...

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

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08/01/2014

... James R. Knickman President & CEO, New York State Health Foundation , in the Huffington Post. As the state moves ahead ... it easy to compare plans. Reduce the overwhelming number of nearly-identical...

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New York Health Foundation

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Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

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08/06/2014

... and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy A version of this post originally appeared on Philanthropy Central here ... spending down.” In no time, a couple of old...

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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

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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 ... too — what and how students are...

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Open Society’s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List

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09/16/2014

... Global Billionaires Political Power Index is a ranking of the top global billionaires in terms of overall political power. There are a number of existing rankings that rate the net worth...

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Russell Sage Study Shows Average Americans Get Poorer as Per Capita Wealth Reaches New High

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10/01/2014

... whole is getting wealthier, the average American’s share of those assets is declining. Despite a near doubling of total wealth in America over the past ten years, the ... at the University of...

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SIFMA Funded Programs Provide Financial Literacy to Millions of Students

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10/02/2014

... Funded Programs Provide Financial Literacy to Millions of Students While several factors contributed to the financial crisis of 2008, a lack of financial literacy among the general ... about...

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Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice

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10/09/2014

Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice The Alliance of Baptists announced Oct. 8 receipt of a $104,400 grant to ... racial justice among Baptists. The...

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LGBTQ

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NoVo Co-President Peter Buffett Uses New Notoriety to Champion Women and Girls Around the World

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10/10/2014

... to Champion Women and Girls Around the World For most of his 56 years, Peter lived a pretty average, anonymous ... to the world that he planned to give away the bulk of his fortune — now estimated at $67...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Donates $1.6 Million to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia

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10/21/2014

... growth in primary school enrollment rates, but the number of students dropping out of school continues to be a challenge. The dropout rate in ... primary school studies. Sadly, without this educational...

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PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care

Release Date:

10/30/2014

... their not-so-golden years. But how often do you think of the shaky ground that many older LGBT Americans find ... not often, even though research shows these are some of the nation's most isolated seniors...

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The New York Community Trust

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New After School Programs and Professional Development Bring Digital Literacy with Grants Totaling $414,000

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10/31/2014

... to use digital tools to educate young people in and out of school. One project, for example, lets kids create ... and engineers. Another uses digital “playlists” of physical challenges to get teens to exercise...

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The New York Community Trust

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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

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11/11/2014

A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China China has five times as many people as the United ... China's rise is right up there with climate change as one of the...

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