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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

F.B. Heron Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation discussed in Forbes article on impact investing. I’ve been privileged ... with my husband, Steve, in 1997. Having had the benefit of a perspective...

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MacArthur and Master Card Foundations Invest $24 Million in Secondary Education

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05/06/2014

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations invest $24 million in international secondary education, reports Triple Pundit. ... Foundation and MasterCard Foundation shared insights from the funder collaborative launched...

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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans a $50 million challenge to the N.R. A ., reports the New York Times. Michael R. Bloomberg, making ... of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N...

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

[Rockefeller Foundation] Study Predicts Building in East River Could Pay for Itself and Then Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a ... be constructed high enough to...

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De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

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05/20/2014

On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 30-member task force that will be charged with overhauling ... job-training and workforce-placement programs. Speaking from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in...

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Open Society Foundations Award Fellowships to 14 Visionaries Working to Reform Criminal Justice in the United States

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05/14/2014

... lawyers, journalists, and people who have spent time in prison. NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today ... to the newest class of Soros Justice Fellows working on a range of criminal justice issues,...

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CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high

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05/30/2014

CDC: Measles cases in USA hit 20-year high The USA has the most measles cases in 20 years and the most since homegrown outbreaks were ... and growing, the CDC says. That number includes 138 cases from...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash Dr. Richard Rockefeller, son of ... an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, was family ... United States...

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Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

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06/16/2014

... Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes Ecology, or SCOPE, a program of the Simons Foundation’s Division of Life Sciences that aims to advance basic research in life sciences. SCOPE hopes to further understand...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and ... world,” says a report calledOutsourcing for Social Good from...

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

... Botanical Garden 039 ;s Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, holds its first public ... on Friday-- a symposium...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies Four universities will share $2.4 million from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in...

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

... at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level. Through Brooklyn Insights, the foundation has ... change, and strategies for collective action. As noted on a special Brooklyn Insights...

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New Supporting Organization to Oversee "Grand Bargain" Funds

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07/06/2014

... Bargain" Funds The Ford Foundation will be part of a new nonprofit, the Foundation for Detroit 039 ;s future, which will administer the $366 million in private money pledged as part of...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... reproductive rights will be high on her agenda, especially in the wake of two Supreme Court rulings last month. In ... was wrong to require buffer zones to keep protesters at a distance...

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Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

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07/17/2014

... Help Immigrant Students Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’s County, Md., as part of Carnegie ... Public Schools along with CASA of Maryland--recipients of a $3 million...

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

... the typical American household has declined by more than a third over the past 10 years, according to a study underwritten by the Russell Sage Foundation. The ... net worth for the typical household declined...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

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09/01/2014

... Backers of Education Post News Site Education Post, a nonprofit group that plans to launch Tuesday, with the aims to encourage a more “respectful” and fact-based national discussion ... which is backed with...

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Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?

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09/09/2014

Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States? The growing debate over economic ... it turns out, is suggestive, but not definitive. From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans...

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

... sector really needs is to grow the overall funding pie from its current 2 percent of GDP to 3 percent of GDP. In order to do that, nonprofits will need to invest more in ... organizations and...

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