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The Wallace Foundation Names Rotunda Floyd-Cooper, Ed.D., Director of Education Leadership

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03/01/2023

The Wallace Foundation Names Rotunda Floyd-Cooper, Ed.D., Director of ... in creating the conditions for teaching and learning is more important than ever.” As director of education leadership...

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Report Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Finds Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year

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04/06/2017

... Smoking Still Kills Many Every Year Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the ... The study used over 2,818 pieces of research identified through several...

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

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04/17/2017

... to Panama Papers Investigation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced ...

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Ikea Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Join Forces to Set up a Historic $1 Billion Initiative to Catalyze Investments in Distributed Renewable Energy

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06/21/2021

Ikea Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Join Forces to Set ... By creating a platform to deploy catalytic capital more efficiently, and at scale that supports the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Create New Multilateral Development Banks Challenge Fund To Increase Investment in Developing Countries

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10/12/2022

The Rockefeller Foundation , Open Society Foundations, and The Bill & Melinda ... are collaborating on a new grant fund aimed at unlocking more financing by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to ... adequacy...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, American Institutes for Research, and Spencer Foundation Award Grants to Four Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

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04/28/2021

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , William T. Grant Foundation , American Institutes ... and CEO of AIR, which is co-funding one of the grants through its Equity Initiative. “By collaborating...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Five Qs for…Douglas Bauer, Executive Director, Clark Foundation

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03/30/2012

... tough is it out there for nonprofits? And what can the foundation community do to inform itself about the financial ... previously forecast. That’s a better situation to be in than predicted, but it still...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

... tumors. Together, these findings could lead to new ways to more effectively screen for and ultimately prevent colon cancer, a disease that kills more than 50,000 people each year in the U.S...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures

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01/11/2017

... post from Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Arcus Foundation , was originally published by the Center for ... surveyed). Sixty-four percent of us think we should take more risk. Given the lack of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Awards Grants to Fuel Plans for Equitable Investment in Opportunity Zones in Washington, DC, Oakland, Dallas, and St. Louis

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09/05/2019

The Rockefeller Foundation Awards Grants to Fuel Plans for Equitable ... Act. The four cities represent 97 Opportunity Zones with more than 362,400 residents. Each will receive $920,000 in grants...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than the conversation that actual workers have on social ... and even loneliness. On behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation...

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Workforce Development

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 New Executives Fund Recipients

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06/15/2021

... in history, we need to encourage and reward bold thinking more than ever.” 2021 New Executives Sofia Arroyo Martín ... of the planet. Arroyo previously served at Sacred Fire Foundation ,...

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Musicians Foundation Celebrates Centennial Anniversary

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12/18/2014

Musicians Foundation Celebrates Centennial Anniversary One hundred ... musicians in distress. In doing so, these socially engaged artists helped pioneer the course of charitable giving in ... achieved this...

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Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation

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03/31/2021

Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation New York, NY – The Markle Foundation is ... formed the Rework America Alliance, a unique coalition of more than 30...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... nurses, and other clinicians can prompt patients to be more active in their own health and healthcare, and greater ... for engaging them in their own care. For example, more than two-thirds...

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New Report Supported By The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Addresses The Future Of Undergraduate Education

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12/01/2017

... a framework for helping colleges of every type work more efficiently and effectively to deal with pressing issues ... the commission. It conducted interviews with more than 200 students and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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The Scherman Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members

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05/01/2023

The Scherman Foundation Welcomes Three New Board Members (May 1, 2023) NEW ... tremendous asset to the Foundation 's mission of creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable world ...

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The Tow Foundation Launches New ‘Innovation Fund’

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09/27/2022

The Tow Foundation Launches New ‘Innovation Fund’ NEW CANAAN, CT ... Innovation Grant recipients were selected from a pool of more than 400 applications for their promising, creative ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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