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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?

Release Date:

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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24 Jul 2018

Advancing Racial Equity for Corporate Success

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 -

10:30am to 12:30pm

... there are enormous inequities that people of color face in health, wealth, employment opportunities, etc. These ... reconceiving products and markets, redefining productivity in the value chain, and...

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Salesforce.org Announces Advancements to the Salesforce.org Education Cloud Platform

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09/20/2018

... entering primary school today will ultimately work in jobs that don't yet exist 2 . Salesforce.org's Education ... to focus on student success, and giving every student the foundation to drive their...

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Philanthropic Leaders Call for Protecting the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation

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11/20/2018

... Special Counsel Investigation It’s astoundingly rare for foundation leaders to make statements about national ... special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Here...

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Commonwealth Fund Launches A New Tool for Comparing ‘Medicare for All’ Plans

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03/15/2019

... Plans The Commonwealth Fund, a non-partisan health care foundation , introduced an interactive tool this week that ... depending on people’s perspective or financial stake in the current health care system. But...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... independent philanthropic organization Salesforce.org in a $300 million all-cash deal. The deal , announced today, ... with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation , an independent nonprofit...

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Disaster Relief

... New York is committed to keeping our members up to date in the event of a disaster and have compiled these resources ... CLARIFY OUR QUALIFYING PARAMETERS FOR COVERAGE OF EVENTS. In addition to these resources...

Recording: 2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence

... purpose for a values-aligned and grantee-centered process in a rapidly changing environment As the funding landscape ... models and plan for previously unexpected scenarios. In this session, we will discuss...

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