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Surdna's Head Reflects on Aligning Program With Mission, Impact Investing

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06/25/2014

Surdna' s Head Reflects on Aligning Program With Mission, Impact ... with mission, cross-pollination between programs and the foundation ' s recent launch into the impact investing world...

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Nick Hodges Named COO and Senior Vice President For Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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07/09/2014

... Philanthropy Advisors. Hodges, who had been COO of the Tides Foundation , will be responsible for oversight of the organization’ s operations, including communications,...

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Simons Grantees Win Top Mathematics Honors

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08/13/2014

... and the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize have been awarded to Simons Foundation grantees Manjul Bhargava, Maryam Mirzakhani and ... respectively. Considered the highest honor in the field of mathematics, Fields Medals...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues

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08/20/2014

... a new $45 million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life. The foundation will direct significant funding and other assistance to help...

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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

Financing the Social Sector Despite the huge success of this summer' s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various crowd-funding ... to grow the overall funding pie from its current 2 percent of...

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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

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10/07/2014

... Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality It' s always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in bringing about big changes in society and, ... legal across the United States, a trend that...

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

... schools for at least five years, were chosen by a panel of scientists, mathematicians and educators. The Fund for the City of New York and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave the winners an...

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All Investing is Impact Investing

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01/12/2015

... funds and elsewhere. Donors have transferred ownership of these funds to separate entities and received their tax deductions. Yet only a small percentage of those funds is expended on charitable donations for...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on ... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its...

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation . In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to U. S .-based individuals or...

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OSF and Ford Praised by de Blasio for Internet Accessibility Work

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02/12/2015

... Accessibility Wor k Mayor Bill de Blasio spurred foundation leaders Wednesday to invest in projects and ... technology tools that protect and expand the accessibility of the Internet. "We know that you...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U. S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries...

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Effective Journalism Is Now Part of Our College Completion Mission

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03/17/2015

by Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation For many years, The Edwin Gould Foundation has ... organizations that in turn helped individuals and cohorts of students was...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , will help low and middle-income countries facing ... international trade agreements to ensure distribution of their products......

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North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform

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03/24/2015

... on the left. The North Star Fund, a liberal activist foundation with ties to de Blasio, has launched a campaign to push for changes in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’ s top...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... Sohn Cancer Research Alliance has announced the winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young ... and the biotech and pharmaceutical...

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How The Atlantic Philanthropies Changed Lives Through Building

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05/18/2015

... to build something that can dramatically alter the lives of people, communities, even nations. Conversely, imagine an ... or even your nation. Imagine the possibilities. That’ s what this book is about. It’...

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

... Fight AIDS in the Deep South With backing from the Ford Foundation , AIDS United awarded $1 million in grants to ... to an AIDS United press release. The grants are part of the AIDS United Southern REACH (...

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Rockefeller Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program

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07/13/2015

... New Resilience AmeriCorps Program The Rockefeller Foundation announced their latest commitment to building ... in communities across the country through the launch of Resilience AmeriCorps. The pilot program...

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