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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 ... to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different sectors – much of my career...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation --want to see if the rapidly growing global supply ... a social responsibility...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

... for Internet Access Project New York Public Library is one of the 19 winners in Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , Ford Foundation and the...

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Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

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08/28/2014

... Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how ... justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager...

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... to its Last Billion Dollars The once ultrasecretive foundation funded by Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, is making good on its ...

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The Spend-Out Presumption And The Value Of Enduring Institutions

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02/26/2010

... my last contribution , I wrote that focusing simply on foundation perpetuity or spending out was, per se , a ... first and foremost, and (2) considering other forms of foundation “existence...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one...

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court A foundation is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a ... million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after...

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

... The Aspen Institute today launched an ambitious, first- of -its-kind project to shine light on economic forces that ... EPIC's work is supported by JP Morgan Chase & Co., as well as...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced the first grantees in its ... tasks easier for those with...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers As a first- of -its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a finalist ... competition is funded with support from The Rockefeller Foundation...

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New ... Sponsors Con Edison, Bank of America and Delta Air Lines as well as the New York City Department...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California As the NoVo Foundation gets into its grantmaking from the $90 million in funds established to support young women and girls of color, one...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... for New Yorkers by year's end, describes philanthropy as something that's in her DNA. Foundation Center's Jen Bokoff, a former employee of the foundation ,...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... $20 Million to Women's Groups The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years ... in New York. While details are still forthcoming, the foundation said the money...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation , the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two ... Schools (ACICS) and the American Bar Association (ABA)...

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week they will relocate their ... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex story about how a...

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Ralph Wilson's Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails

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10/17/2018

... to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation on Wednesday afternoon will announce the largest ... philanthropic gift ever made in Western New York. The foundation will give $100 million...

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William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

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06/05/2019

... Scholars Program The New York City-based William T. Grant Foundation supports research aimed at improving the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. To that...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds "Innovation Team" in Syracuse

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03/12/2015

... Mayor Stephanie Miner has tapped her former planning director to head a new “innovation team.” Tim Knauss ... Andrew Maxwell has been named the municipality’s director of policy and...

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