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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

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09/21/2017

At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food ... products, and the resulting confusion costs families up to $29 billion annually in the United Statesalone...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Why Bring People Together In Person?

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08/13/2013

... communication technologies available, it would be easy to assume that Skype, videoconferencing, webinars, Google ... social and environmental benefits from investments; a new global alliance for life-saving...

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Century Foundation Fellow Co-Authors Report on Admission Preferences of Low-Income Students

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01/11/2016

... 3 percent of enrollment at the elite schools, according to a landmark report issued today by the Jack Kent Cooke ... colleges and universities. Perhaps the most significant new finding of the report is that...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Autonomous Driving Will Transform Cities: Is Philanthropy Paying Attention?

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05/23/2017

... at Bloomberg Philanthropies Cities are no strangers to either technology or the reality that technologies change ... a lot of excitement and concern from city leaders over one new technology in particular –...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

06 Feb 2019

The Fight for a Fair Vote - A Food for Thought Conversation

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... through elections. But when representatives get to draw their own electoral district lines, legislators are ... and, more broadly, our society? If so, what can we do to counter such efforts? How can...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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14 Aug 2014

So You Want to Be a Family Philanthropist? - Webinar

Thursday, August 14, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... as well as the degree of control and influence they wish to retain for years, and perhaps generations, to come. It’s not always an easy choice! What are the ... National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP)...

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Family Foundation

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18 Feb 2015

Individualized Career Planning

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 -

12:45pm to 5:00pm

... a benefit that offers individualized career planning to your staff? This seems to be one of the hot topics in Human Resources right now. ... , from Next Step Partners who helped Diana roll out this new...

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Professional Development

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Workshop

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HR & Operations Staff

20 Oct 2015

EA Network: Effectively Communicating Your Personal Achievements

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... part of the Executive Assistants Network , but is relevant to all administrative support staff. The third quarterly program of this year’s series, New and Improved You: Professional and Career Development ,...

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Network Building

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Executive Support Staff

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

07 Mar 2016

Simplifying Strategy Toolkit Workshop for CSRs

Monday, March 7, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... a workshop on the principles of Simplifying Strategy , a new toolkit developed by FSG in partnership with CECP. ... and stakeholder priorities, coupled with expectations to demonstrate short-term returns with...

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Corporate Funders

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The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Invites Applications for its Eighth Class of Macy Faculty Scholars

Release Date:

11/09/2017

... Scholars The Macy Faculty Scholars Program is designed to identify and nurture the careers of promising educational ... support from the Macy Foundation, scholars will implement new educational innovations at...

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RFPs Etc

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Launch US 2050

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11/29/2017

... US 2050, an initiative that will engage leading scholars to examine and analyze the multiple demographic, ... wave of foreseeable demographic changes will create a new American tapestry. Social, economic, and...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

13 Feb 2018

Learning from the #MeToo Moment: Building an Anti-Harassment Practice in Your Foundation

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... why does sexual harassment and discrimination continue to be such a persistent and devastating problem in the ... talent have raised the discussion of workplace misconduct to a new level...

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Professional Development

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Livestream

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08 Feb 2018

Service for Impact – Strategies to Elevate Your Internal Communications

Thursday, February 8, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... both corporate grantmakers and corporate volunteer leaders to foster a peer network, share successes and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities to make a...

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Century Foundation Reports on Ways Forward on Health Care Reform

Release Date:

01/25/2018

... Health Reform 2020 , the first conference of its kind to explore proposals to leverage public programs to improve affordable, quality coverage. Leading experts from ...

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Health

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The Century Foundation

William Bell, President of Casey Family Programs, Spoke at the Senate Health Committee Hearing on the Opioid Crisis

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02/12/2018

... Friday includes what advocates call a landmark compromise to provide an estimated $1.5 billion (£1.08 billion) over 10 years to try to keep struggling families together, including those .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs Played Key Role In Changing Foster Care Forever

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04/12/2018

... Finance Committee, stepped into the well of the Senate to plead with his colleagues to pass the sweeping Family First Prevention Services Act ... an opioid epidemic raging, leaving states from Indiana ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs

Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Study of Alzheimer's and Brain Health Detection Using Eye Exams

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03/12/2019

Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Study of Alzheimer's and Brain ... Exams Soon, an eye examination may be all that is needed to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, according to...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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12 Jun 2019

GDPR is Here, Are You Compliant?

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... grantmakers on GDPR as they share the impact the new rule has on your organization and/or your work. They ... law, assisting clients around the globe with the “A to Z” of privacy and data security-related...

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Professional Development

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HR & Operations Staff

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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

Release Date:

05/14/2019

... Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer...

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