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10 Oct 2024

Disaster Risk Reduction: How Philanthropy Can Empower a Resilient Future- A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, October 10, 2024 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... risk and managing residual risk.” In recognition of October’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction ... build resilience by reducing risk. Disasters are not natural ; therefore, philanthropy can take...

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance ... the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to ... contracts...

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted several foundation efforts to ... and Helmsley, working alongside corporate grant makers. As part of that effort, foundations and...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment (PRI) revolving fund to support its mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United ... contractors owned by women and people...

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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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Perpetuity, continued

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04/24/2014

... and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy At a recent panel discussion organized by Philanthropy New York billed as The Case for Perpetuity on the rationale for perpetual ... (you...

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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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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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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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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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Research to Prevent Blindness

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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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13 Dec 2018

Interested in Working in Corporate Philanthropy?

Thursday, December 13, 2018 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... to explore career paths in the philanthropic sector, as part of our " Interested in Working at a Foundation " series. This December, we will learn about the .....

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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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