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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... will feast on food that would have ordinarily ended up in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC, Sustainable ... ingredients to prepare lunch for 5,000 event...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia Anti-pipeline activists from across the country met in Atlanta this week to talk strategy. The summit brought ... bedfellows joined forces this...

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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

... Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships "Internships," the headline in the New York Times’s opinion section read, "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation , and it...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped create, took its first direct stake in a...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... goal is to find something beneficial to Earth and mankind in general. Some research materials are also geared towards ... new research partnership between NASA and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , a non-profit...

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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 ... principle of moral pedagogy — but disastrous as a foundation for democratic politics in our ideological age...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... urban by 2050. Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and you can ... Cities Accelerator, a partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and Unreasonable...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How ... evolution within Rockefeller family philanthropy, if only in their sheer number. Their...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a ... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone...

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in...

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2017 Macy Faculty Scholars Named

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06/27/2017

... University School of Medicine Each Scholar will engage in activities to enhance their career as an educator, as well ... said Dr. George Thibault, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation . “These Scholars...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... with the family’s philanthropic legacy lately, albeit in a different direction. We’ve covered Nathaniel Simons' quiet climate change giving via his Sea Change Foundation , which is one of the nation's...

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He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy

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08/22/2017

... attention to Rockefeller’s long and varied involvements in philanthropy. It was an odd oversight, given that the last ... grandson of John D. Rockefeller stands as a key figure in the annals of modern civil...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

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09/13/2017

... today, we think of the MacDowell Colony, in the woods of New Hampshire, and of the Skowhegan School, in Maine. There’s the Rome Prize fellowship, at the city’s American Academy, and Donald Judd’s Chinati...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... the three most generous donors among the 10 richest people in America, according to new analysis by The Chronicle of ... Melinda, have given 22 percent of their wealth to charity in the past 17 years. The...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... most of the construction and operational costs; he brought in Heatherwick Studio (a London specialist in such projects) to design it. Though planned as a public ... manning those bridges. Extraordinary...

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

... amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places where infrastructure may be devastated—such as in Puerto Rico, right now—or distant regions mired in ... improve cost-...

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ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications

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03/08/2018

... and the value they provide through brief presentations in storytelling format to arrive at four unique perspectives ... D'Silva , Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) Kim...

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Ford and PBS Partner on Documentary Series

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06/15/2018

... Series On Friday, June 15, 2018, PBS will premiere Ford Foundation funded BREAKING BIG, a 12-episode documentary ... on the road to thriving careers for some notable figures in various fields. The series of 30...

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