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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

... for Refugees finds that almost 60 million people -- over half of them children -- have been displaced by ... is roughly 13 times the population of Costa Rica alone. In Latin America, the number of Colombian...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... five years collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the Universe over a volume of 650 cubic billion light years,” says ... the best measurements...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free ... Americans on its annual Top 50 Givers list gave the most over their lifetimes as a...

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... Heroes of Refugee Crisis The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year. According to the United Nations High ... for Refugees (UNHCR), the conflict has resulted in over 5 million Syrian...

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The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

... Philanthropy There’s been no shortage of news stories over the last several months that delivered a punch to the ... our deepest beliefs about the United States and its place in the world. But a recent article...

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Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, Data Shows

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09/27/2017

Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, ... has reduced in -school arrests and summonses. While just over two-thirds of students are black or...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... learning. As Fab Labs branch out across the nation, thanks in part to a $10 million, three-year push by Chevron to ... encouraging them to try new things — and try them over and over . …...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows

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07/24/2018

... Fellows program made a major step forward this month in its efforts to advance fairer, healthier and more ... Feeney and the Atlantic Philanthropies set out to achieve over 35 years ago,” said Christopher G...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50 million to Fight Opioid Epidemic

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11/30/2018

... nation’s opioid epidemic. Bloomberg Philanthropies said over the next three years it will help up to 10 states ... on record. It said those numbers are a leading factor in the decline of U.S. life expectancy...

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New York Life Foundation Pledges $1.7 Million to Help Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

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04/08/2020

... $1.7 Million to Help Amid Coronavirus Outbreak It’s in times like these that people come together to support one ... Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Covid-19 Response Fund , which supports preparedness,...

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24 Oct 2011

Taking the Next Steps Toward a Greater Collective Impact

Monday, October 24, 2011 - 8:45am to Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 9:30am

... Kania on Collective Impact, a new approach first featured in the Winter 2011 Issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. To utilize a Collective Impact ... and learn how other grantmakers are taking the...

Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... to help strengthen institutions and networks critical to social movements. Reich currently serves as director of ... Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... the idea that the wealthy are harnessing their fortunes to social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new ... of the population—which is already hugely powerful in U.S. society—is set to...

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... can be applied not just for corporate good, but also for social good. One such firm is Mastercard, which describes itself as a technology company in the payments industry, which connects buyers and sellers...

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Collective Impact Without Borders

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08/29/2017

... structured, cross-sector approach to solving complex social problems— in 2011, we have deepened our understanding of what it ... across national borders. Given this increasing interest in...

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... This year, Salesforce is rolling out the next stage in its compassionate capitalism game plan. Dubbed Philanthropy Cloud, it’s a “ social giving platform” that riffs off the company’s ... that many employee...

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Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

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10/29/2015

... serve as Chair-Elect until June of 2016 when he will take over as Chair at the end of the term of the current Board ... joined The Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees in 2008. David Rockefeller Jr.,...

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