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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance ... the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to ... contracts...

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted several foundation efforts to ... and science educators will be ready to teach America’ s students by the year 2016, thanks to a big push by large ...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

The John A. Hartford Foundation is seeking feedback on their Change AGEnts ... Initiative. When I was first hired at the John A. Hartford Foundation , I gave one of the then-Senior Program...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

F.B. Heron Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation discussed in Forbes ... to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different sectors – much of my career...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation --want to see if the rapidly growing global supply ... a social responsibility...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

... for Internet Access Project New York Public Library is one of the 19 winners in Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation , Ford Foundation...

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Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

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08/28/2014

... Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how ... justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager...

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... to its Last Billion Dollars The once ultrasecretive foundation funded by Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, is making good on its ... 2016. While the so-called...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one...

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court A foundation is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a ... million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after...

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

... The Aspen Institute today launched an ambitious, first- of -its-kind project to shine light on economic forces that ... to their consequences for millions of Americans. EPIC' s work is...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader’ s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced ... tasks easier for those with vision...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’ s Farmers As a first- of -its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a finalist ... competition is funded with support from The Rockefeller ...

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New ... Additional support is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation , the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Jerome Robbins...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’ s Freedom in California As the NoVo Foundation gets into its grantmaking from the $90 million in funds established to support young women and girls of color, one...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year' s end, describes philanthropy as something that' s in her DNA. Foundation Center' s Jen Bokoff, a...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

Gates Commits $20 Million to Women' s Groups The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years ... said the money will support research, training, and groups of...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation , the U. S . Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two ...

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week they will relocate their ... Budapest, Soros’ birth city, to Berlin. Open Society’ s decision to relocate from Budapest is a...

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Ralph Wilson's Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails

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10/17/2018

Ralph Wilson' s Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation on Wednesday afternoon will announce the largest ... philanthropic gift ever made in Western New...

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