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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says A "resilience ... disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . A traditional catastrophe bond is...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... The late Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year. But scientists at the Salk Institute ... for which there has been practically no improvement in treatment outcome for years,"...

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... deficit is set to jump 24 percent, to $544 billion, in this fiscal year. That's up from last year's $439 billion ... Michael Peterson, CEO of the anti-debt Peter G. Peterson Foundation , said ...

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Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development

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03/15/2016

... Museum and on the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential Campaign in Washington State. As Director of Development at the ... between philanthropic partners and city agencies in need of programmatic funding. Her work...

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

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch...

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

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03/29/2016

... Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping In Norfolk, Virginia, an East Coast city that's home to the ... how much the city, its region and the nation would suffer in damages to national assets...

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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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International/Foreign Affairs

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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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