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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... with nonprofits raising lots of money for efforts to boost students that have nothing to do with the kind of "systemic" reforms which are so in .....

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

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12/05/2016

... Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry Imagine, if you will, a disaster movie ... name is Global Food Waste. This is why the Rockefeller Foundation has invested hundreds...

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Food Systems

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Ford’s Walker Talks Philanthropy in CNBC Interview

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02/07/2017

... Walker Talks Philanthropy in CNBC Interview The key to understanding this moment in American history—in black ... is saying. One could argue that if anyone is positioned to understand this dizzying landscape,...

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Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For

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03/21/2017

... The arts spark creativity and soothe divisiveness, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker told a packed house at The ... in a passionate address that defended art as essential to democracy. “Art is not a...

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Arts

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Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe

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03/23/2017

... Soros in countries formerly dominated by Moscow appears to follow a template set by Russian President Vladimir Putin, ... own crackdown on foreign-funded charities drove Soros's foundation out of Russia...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants

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03/27/2017

Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants In response to the Trump administration’s immigration policies, ... State Department, the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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Capital One, Howard Gilman, and Doris Duke Support City Parks SummerStage 2017 Season

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04/11/2017

... Duke Support City Parks SummerStage 2017 Season City Parks Foundation is excited to announce the 2017 season of SummerStage, New York City's ... arts festival, bringing more than 100 performances ...

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Arts

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness. In ... leaving millions of households now more susceptible to the next downturn, not less... Russell...

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Economic Security

A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO

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07/18/2017

... next big wave. The charitable sector is no longer limited to just giving grants to organizations and wishing them well. Whether it’s ... impact investing, or collaborative efforts designed to...

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business When it comes to explaining why there are so few female CEOs, a lot of ... there. But an intriguing new survey from the Rockefeller Foundation released Tuesday...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... Tuesday morning, Kiara García, now 8, hardly seemed to think she was doing anything unusual. And she wasn’t, at ... and 58 percent of Latino children reported having little to no swimming ability, compared...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

... a nonprofit venture in the United States, theguardian.org, to focus on tapping philanthropic organizations — or even ... foundations and think tanks — for financial help to report on issues including human...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts More than $275 million ... raised more than $38 million over the weekend, with a goal to raise $100 million. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and ... Harvey...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era Party politics and ... and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits. While the news...

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Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early ... , 5:00 PM Eastern Time. The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

... Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? The Walton Family Foundation recently pledged to invest more than $2 million to create new charter schools in New York City. "So what's .....

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... gathered outside City Hall in the rain on Monday to demand more affordable housing from Mayor de Blasio. The ... — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by Comptroller...

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Housing and Homelessness

IRS Audit Guides Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria

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10/13/2017

... The prospect of being audited by the IRS is as unsettling to nonprofit leaders as to individuals and for-profit businesses. To assist nonprofit staffs and boards, as well as the tax ...

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Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

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10/27/2017

Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings ... a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to...

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