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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

Release Date:

02/23/2016

... claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico's soda ... found between a 6- and 12-percent reduction in purchases of sugary drinks after the law...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

Release Date:

03/28/2016

... When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest children, he...

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... address rising sea levels. In partnership with the City of Norfolk's Resilience Office and 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation , Sandia analyzed the risk to important...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... news: The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation , has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to ... the city. The Trust is also...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

... Production Initiative grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . A darkly comic epic, Oslo tells the true, but until now, untold story of how one young couple, Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul (to be .....

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

Release Date:

04/25/2016

... Climate Accord Approved at U.N. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework ... 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The formal adoption of the agreement on Friday, April 22 by the...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

... Support Teacher Leadership Projects The U.S. Department of Education is collaborating with ASCD and the National ... and programs that can transform the academic trajectory of students. These teacher-led...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... Fight Food Waste With Feast On Tuesday May 10, thousands of New Yorkers will feast on food that would have ordinarily ... in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC,...

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... New York Press Club has recognized City Limits' coverage of housing issues and its investigation into the use of forced medication at a city hospital. A team ... by the New York Community Trust, the...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... Social Workers The New York Community Trust (NYCT), one of the nation’s largest community foundations, has renewed a grant through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

... whether supportive housing could change the trajectory of families facing a number of destabilizing factors that can lead to homelessness, open ... agencies and foster care placements. Officially known...

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... Librarian Award. The award recognizes the public service of exceptional public, school, college, community college or ... York City on Nov. 30, 2016, hosted by the philanthropic foundation and award sponsor,...

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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 ... a fellow person of color addresses it on a platform...

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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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02 Nov 2016

End the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... on the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline: The proportion of girls – especially girls of color – in the juvenile ... with the support of Philanthropy New York member, the Ms. Foundation...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

Release Date:

09/23/2016

... tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe ... an investigation designed to look into different kinds of microbes collected from the...

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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 ... -- foundational ways to keep people healthy, such as...

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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 ... Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies, ranks as the most generous...

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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 ... a splendid principle of moral pedagogy — but disastrous as a foundation...

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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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