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Heintz Named To NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 List

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08/01/2014

... Power & Influence Top 50 List Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has been named as one of this year' s Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50. In...

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NYCT Backs Legal Aid Program for Young Migrants

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09/23/2014

... the New York Community Trust and the Robin Hood Foundation , are combining forces to provide legal ... under a new accelerated court process. The number of youth deportation cases has since swelled to 30 per...

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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... United States Financier George Soros has become one of the largest supporters of drug reforms ranging from ... use to the easing of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’ s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The MasterCard Foundation has partnered with the United Nations Capital ... to increase access to microfinance and...

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Coalition to Support Grieving Students Launches GrievingStudents.org

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01/13/2015

... Grieving Students, convened in 2013 by the New York Life Foundation , is a collaboration among the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and ten of the leading professional organizations in the K-12...

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NYSHF Energizes Entire Communities with Healthy Neighborhoods Fund Initiative

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02/02/2015

... Fund Initiative The New York State Health Foundation awards grants from the Healthy Neighborhoods Fund ... residents. Grant recipients must increase the availability of healthy, affordable food; improve...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America For all the frantic, often ... with incidental, even trivial issues to notice what' s happened. Even so, most of us -- whatever...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown' s Nonpartisan Education Website Is it news, or is it advocacy? In the case of the Seventy Four, a new news site focused on education, ... The funders include the...

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Pinkerton Expands Science Mentoring for High School Scholars

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07/20/2015

... Mentoring for High School Scholars The Pinkerton Foundation announced that it will make grants of up to $10 million over the next five years to provide ... students have completed the program, and the ...

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability Initiatives

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07/29/2015

Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability ... As the longtime president and chairman of the foundation arm for one of the world'...

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Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy

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09/16/2015

... Philanthropy A century has past since the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation , and the spirit of family philanthropy still results in the creation of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Collaborates to Launch Data Portal to Share and Expand Philanthropic Resources

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09/17/2015

... Resources Bloomberg Philanthropies, King Baudouin Foundation , and Foundation Center have announced the launch of Equal Footing, a data portal of philanthropic resources ...

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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... that promote and encourage charitable giving. The is part of the Council on Foundations' work to revive the ... Senate. The briefing will also emphasize the importance of taking action on charitable...

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

... at nonprofits around the world, the American Express Foundation is starting an ambitious new digital effort to ... launch Leaderosity , a website that builds on a decade’ s worth of work to...

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’ s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize In January, our foundation put out a call to anyone in America with a ... watching applications trickle in. Would we catch the eye of...

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PNY Adds Legal Series to Core Curriculum

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01/06/2016

... series that we will be offering in 2016 under the heading of the “ PNY Core ” and we invited all of you to ... titled “I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With a Family Foundation ,” which...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Shut Down January 1; Profiled in Jerusalem Post

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01/07/2016

... Bronfman Philanthropies (ACBP) closed after three decades of miracle making, having “spent down” their capital, as ... While saying shalom, adieu and farewell to this family of foundations based in Jerusalem,...

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Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth

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01/08/2016

... Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth Aging out of foster care can be a difficult process. With little ... are funding programs and projects in diverse ways. Let’ s look at some of the...

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Rockefeller Partnership to Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery

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01/25/2016

... Support Cities' Infrastructure Recovery The Rockefeller Foundation , Veolia, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions have ... initiative designed to accelerate the economic recovery of cities in the aftermath...

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