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Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing Ford ... large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts. Community Capital Management’s CRA-Qualified ... ratings have become essential...

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Ford Foundation to Support 'Student-Centered' Learning Systems

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10/26/2017

Ford Foundation to Support 'Student-Centered' Learning Systems The ... communities that propose new ideas for meeting the needs of diverse student populations. "This approach emphasizes the needs...

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Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign

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11/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign Aetna Foundation ’s Cultivating Healthy Communities program has ... during the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters... . Aetna Foundation Supports...

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Rockefeller Foundation Funds Denver Food Action Plan

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07/06/2018

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Denver Food Action Plan Denver's Department of Public Health & Environment has launched its Food Action ... two-year pilot, in which Denver aims for a 57% reduction of...

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The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory ... said the consortium will focus on researching the causes...

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Foundations Moving On: Ending Programmes and Funding Relationships

Whether you are part of a family foundation that runs its own programmes, a big corporate ... NGO that re-grants resources from a back-donor, or a mix of any of the above, exits are inevitable. Funders move on, ...

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At Ford Foundation, Vice President Rises to Top Job

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07/24/2013

Darren Walker will become the 10th President of the Ford Foundation this September. Darren Walker was born in a ... worked as a nurse’s aide and he was enrolled in one of the first Head Start...

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Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive

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03/2014

A skyrocketing stock market helped boost the assets of the Gates, Hewlett, and other big foundations last year to ... new grant-making efforts to deal with vexing problems…. Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still ...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Profiled in Financial Times

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04/07/2016

... might feel stepping into the cathedral-sized lobby of the Ford Foundation ’s headquarters in New York. But impressions of a remote, inaccessible institution dissipate on meeting ...

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Century Foundation Publishes Report on Reducing Economic Inequality

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08/11/2016

Century Foundation Publishes Report on Reducing Economic Inequality ... not been this bad in almost a century—not since the end of the 1920s, just before the country crashed into the Great Depression. Today,...

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Simons Foundation Supports Collaboration of Libraries in Digital Era

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10/17/2016

Simons Foundation Supports Collaboration of Libraries in Digital Era ... challenges. As the University prepares for the arrival of 800 more students over the next four years, ensuring that ...

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David Rockefeller's Death Increases Foundations' Endowments

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03/27/2017

... Death Increases Foundations' Endowments With the death of David Rockefeller, the fund he created with his siblings ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund had $829 million in assets as of late January. It made...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation , commented today on the published release of a tax...

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George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations

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10/18/2017

... has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation . The gift, made quietly over the past several...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation Partners With Calvin Klein

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11/29/2017

The Andy Warhol Foundation Partners With Calvin Klein Calvin Klein has ... access to the late artist’s life work - much of which remains unpublished. The partnership comes after ... Warhol’s work after using his...

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Rockefeller Foundation To Invest $20M To Electrify Rural India

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08/21/2018

The Rockefeller Foundation will invest $20 million in India over the next ... to Vice President Christine Heenan. The U.S.-based foundation has raised an additional $32 million in debt over ... soon and almost all...

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Whiting Foundation Announces 2019 Literary Magazine Prizes

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07/18/2019

Whiting Foundation Announces 2019 Literary Magazine Prizes Today the Whiting Foundation announced the winners of its 2019 Literary Magazine Prizes, the largest national ... to help publications...

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