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Philanthropy Leaders Call for Greater Role in Tackling Global Challenges Defined in New Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2015

Philanthropy Leaders Call for Greater Role in Tackling Global Challenges Defined in New Sustainable Development Goals Ahead of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, where ... A...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Environment and Climate Change

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... commanding headlines and emerging as major talking points in the presidential campaign, at least for Democrats. They are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’s largest...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... Cornell Tradition The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, ... service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation , the nation's premier foundation devoted to ... there will be no audience - only participants. Four of the most highly...

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Economic Security

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Supported by Rockefeller, $10 Million Water Window Challenge Announces Winners

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03/17/2017

... The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation , USAID , and the Swedish International ... competition to address recurring flood problems in some...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... the initiative would spend “more than $1 Million” in “Public and Private investment” to “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In fact, the program is...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... took up philanthropy as a young heiress and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign adversaries than they do today. Now, through its ... Bridges grants program...

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Arts

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens

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04/14/2017

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for postdoctoral ... want to apply their experience to understanding...

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RFPs Etc

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Bloomberg, Gates, Others Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio

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06/13/2017

... announced public and private pledges totaling $1.2 billion in support of efforts to eradicate polio, including $450 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . The commitment from...

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Health

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The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

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08/25/2017

The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy ... for their philanthropy. But women comprise most staff in foundations, half of all foundations are...

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Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is

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08/30/2017

... led Paul Newman to sell his homemade salad dressing in 1982 and give away the profits. Newman’s Own marks its ... that the philanthropic company shipped its first bottles of olive oil and vinegar salad...

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Yes, It Can Be Done: A Philanthropist on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts

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09/06/2017

... the Arts Not long ago, I wrote about the Maine-based Libra Foundation betting big that the arts can transform a depressed small rural town in that state called Monson. I've also noted that ArtPlace .....

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns When the corporate foundation at German engineering giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant...

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Data-Driven Gender Equality

Release Date:

09/15/2017

Data-Driven Gender Equality Closing the gender gap in agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound ... world. Today, for example, women make up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

... with grantees make those goals a challenge.” This group of foundations recognized that while among their grantees ... intractable problems, and demonstrating the possibility of moving beyond incremental change...

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Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program

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06/19/2018

Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program The Arcus Foundation , a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Releases Publication on Operating for Limited Life

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12/11/2018

... Publication on Operating for Limited Life A growing number of foundations are choosing to operate within a limited lifespan. While the reasons vary, in each case the organizations must address specific .....

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