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Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

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05/04/2015

... them by becoming resilient, says Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation . Resilience, Rodin says, is “the capacity to ... does happen, and then to revitalize and grow as a result of...

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods The recent earthquakes in ... bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning might have prevented the worst of...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn ... than two dozen youth from across Central Brooklyn gathered for the first part of a 24-Hour Hackathon and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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

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01/11/2016

Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer Glioblastoma multiforme is a ... Institutes of Health, the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation , and the Leona M...

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits For six straight years, Americans watched their government's ... year's $439 billion deficit. . . Michael Peterson, CEO of the anti-debt Peter G...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico's soda ... found between a 6- and 12-percent reduction in purchases of sugary drinks after the law...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... Climate Accord Approved at U.N. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), under the United Nations Framework ... World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Friday for the two-day meeting and by Saturday...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... happen. “This unusual alliance, there has been a lot of talk about that,” said Tonya Bonitatibus, the executive director of the environmental group Savannah Riverkeeper. “I would ... said there are a few other...

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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 that America has become ... diversity shape our politics? The standard liberal answer for nearly a generation now has been that we...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How ... but with distinct personalities. The original impetus for...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... Boom Generosa Gonato's mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be ... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

... fact that public health in the U.S. still has much room for improvement. These disparities are apparent in ... healthcare providers and policymakers. Often at the core of this problem are resource allocation...

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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

... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early ... three-year awards are intended to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in this...

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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

... representatives from 19 international agencies gathered for a groundbreaking meeting hosted by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. These...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded ... in to pitch Ackman and the board of his Pershing...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to ... Texas are attracting millions of dollars in donations for relief efforts, much of it from corporate sources but...

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

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09/29/2017

... that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places ... improve cost-effective and adaptable aid delivery. The UPS Foundation is one major...

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SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia

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11/27/2017

... is based on a report commissioned by the Philadelphia Foundation and coauthored by GuideStar, Oliver Wyman, and ... SeaChange Capital Partners titled “The Financial Health of Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits.” We...

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Children, Youth and Families

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... a "national consultation" survey mailed by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Hungarian voters in ... it called the "Soros Plan" — including the resettlement of "at least...

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