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The Rockefeller Foundation, Moore Foundation Join Fund for Shared Insight

Release Date:

11/10/2015

... Launched just over a year ago, Fund for Shared Insight is a collaborative effort among funders that pools financial ... at least $250,000 per year over three years, which is pooled into a joint fund for...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

10/28/2014

... as a member of its Board of Trustees. Dr. Cigarroa is the departing chancellor of the University of Texas ... and engineering. Born in Laredo, Texas, Dr. Cigarroa is a third generation physician. Dr. Cigarroa...

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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

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05/14/2019

... a form of logical reasoning used to make inferences: If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than C. But in recent ... to a growing body of evidence that the...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Rafael Maldonado as Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer

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12/14/2021

... for overseeing all of the Association’s information systems , information security, and information technology. ... strategic approach to creating forward-looking information systems and ensuring cyber security...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

DC Dysfunction Isn’t the Whole Story

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04/20/2016

... of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. What is the point of going to Washington to talk to our ... gridlock and election-year politics mean that nothing is going to happen this year? This is...

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PNY News

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

Mr. Bagwell, a director and producer of some of the most influential documentaries about the civil rights movement and the black American experience, will leave the foundation in June to make his own documentaries once again.

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Ford Foundation

11 Dec 2013

What Does it Mean to ‘Do’ Policy Work in a Foundation?

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”Public Policy Work” in foundations is like the proverb of the elephant being described by ... men — each has a very different description of what it is based on their personal experience of it. Is...

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Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

Release Date:

11/01/2013

... of his analysis compelling, I would argue that there is a different and perhaps more pernicious problem with what ... been come to be known as "strategic philanthropy." That is the imposition of the...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Billionaires Wield Greater Power Through Charitable and Political Donations

Release Date:

05/18/2014

... causes and tackling policy-oriented issues like climate change , gun control, immigration, and public pensions. And ... observers are beginning to question whether such giving is more about wielding power than...

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Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

Release Date:

03/13/2015

“The first-ever global study of female characters in popular films, launched today, reveals deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls by the international film industry,” according to UN Women, which supported the...

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Communications/Media

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Q&A with Sreenivasan: The Met Engages Audiences with Digital Technology (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

Release Date:

02/02/2016

... with the foundation’s staff about how digital technology is changing the way audiences engage with culture. . . Q&A ...

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Arts

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Wallace Foundation Continues Investigation on Role of Principals In Improving Schools

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06/06/2016

... all students and teachers learn and grow. That’s a big change in the job description and the field is not ready for it. Certainly, the principal preparation ...

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The Wallace Foundation

Simons Foundation Collaboration to Study the Physics of Glass

Release Date:

07/13/2016

... phenomena embody the deepest mysteries. For example, glass is made by cooling a liquid rapidly until it solidifies. But when and how does that change occur? When does liquid become solid? Is...

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Rockefeller Family & Brothers Fund, Green Groups Subpoenaed on ‘Coordinated’ Climate Efforts

Release Date:

08/03/2016

... probing their “coordinated efforts” to punish climate change skeptics, face additional scrutiny as part of the ...

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Rockefeller Family Fund

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MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems

Release Date:

08/23/2016

... by doing good. The 50 companies chosen for this year's Change the World list hail from 22 countries. Use our .....

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Report on Why Cities and Businesses Should Partner to Achieve Climate Goals

Release Date:

10/04/2016

... are increasingly working together to address climate change — and finding these partnerships present “huge ... for collaborating with the private sector and this is a huge economic opportunity for the private...