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Opportunity International and The MasterCard Foundation Plan To Help 7M Out of Poverty With $22.7M Partnership

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03/25/2014

... and The MasterCard Foundation plan to help 7 million out of poverty with $22.7 million partnership, reports Forbes. ... OI and The MasterCard Foundation plan to enter phase two of this partnership as they...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... Killed in Plane Crash Dr. Richard Rockefeller, son of philanthropist David Rockefeller, was killed Friday ... after takeoff. Dr. Rockefeller, an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Iran and the U.S. and its allies than the Ploughshares Fund , which has been investing heavily this year in work with ... Iran program in previous years, providing a grant of $1 million in 2013 and two separate...

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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 ... to grow the overall funding pie from its current 2 percent of GDP to 3 percent of...

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PNY Members Among Top Ten Funders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work

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09/18/2014

PNY Members Among Top Ten FUnders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work Between 2011 and ... schools work – which amounted to approximately 8 percent of LGBTQ funding in the United States. For 2011-2012, the...

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on a program to build the financial health of arts and cultural heritage organizations. NFF has received a $485,000 planning grant...

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

... Communities In a collaboration between the City of Philadelphia, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, the PeopleForBikes Foundation and the National Association of City...

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond An experiment ... using a Social Impact Bond (SIB) to reduce the rate at which juvenile offenders return to jail—so-called ... despite being...

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Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List

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01/08/2016

... category. Citing “national security”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had put the association under the ... the organisation funded the “anti-India” activities of Teesta Setalvad’s two NGOs — Citizens for...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/22/2016

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names 17 Recipients of 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Awards The program ... to independent research careers. Engaged in a broad range of areas, from HIV studies in Africa to...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

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07/25/2016

... the Wilson Writing Academy, a comprehensive system of instruction that will shape students' writing skills and analytical reasoning capacities -- central components of a liberal arts education. The Mellon...

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Surdna Foundation to Recognize Four Community Development Financial Institutions

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10/31/2016

Opportunity Finance Network, Goldman Sachs, and the Surdna Foundation will award four CDFIs, including Accion and CSBDF, with the 2016 Small Business Leader Award for Mission-Driven Lenders.

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Rauch Foundation Hosts 2017 Imagine Awards to Celebrate 'A Community Where Everyone Belongs'

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03/06/2017

... The sold out event, with over 400 in attendance at Horseshoe Southern Indiana in Elizabeth, raised funds for ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup

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08/01/2017

... public. ETFs give investors the ability to buy a basket of stocks or other assets with a single trade. Many of the funds track a broad market index, rather than trying ...

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Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up

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09/05/2017

... Labor and Pensions Committee kicks off the first of four scheduled hearings this month examining the individual health care market with the goal of producing a bipartisan bill that makes modest fixes. Ideas...

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Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens

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10/28/2015

... a Gender Lens By Ana Oliveira, President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation In Fall 2012, The New York ... launched our Hurricane Sandy Response & Recovery Fund in an effort to...

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Mellon Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts to Help with "Grand Bargain"

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06/11/2014

Mellon Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts t o Help with "Grand Bargain" The Andrew W. Mellon ... is pledging $10 million to the Detroit Institute of the Arts to support the...

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MasterCard Foundation to Help Address Water Sanitation in East Africa with Micro-Credit Program

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10/27/2014

... in East Africa with Micro-Credit Program Experts said at a regional forum held on Wednesday in Nairobi noted that ... to disburse loans worth 19.5 million U.S. dollars to help meet house hold water and...

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Verizon Foundation to Match Employee Contributions to Nepal Relief Efforts

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04/28/2015

... aid agencies and NGOs gear up to help the victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on ... donations to the American Red Cross and World Vision that meet or exceed $25. The cap on donation...

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Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge

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11/03/2015

... (NFTE) in 1987, I have been privileged to meet young people from all over the country who share one key ... own businesses. Every year NFTE brings together several of those young entrepreneurs into a series...

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