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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

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11/20/2014

... Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to a close ... by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative to facilitate...

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... for those. For example, the natural event likely to hit New York next is a heatwave. Heat can be deadly. There needs ...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

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12/10/2014

... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in its infancy, ... One effect of these cities working so closely with Google as it rolls out its fiber network in...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... Cities to Build Greater Resilience Judith Rodin’s new book, The Resilience Dividend, begins with her surveying ... Cities programme, and now this book. “In a time as turbulent as ours,” she...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

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01/30/2015

... education tax credit, or ETC, a term unfamiliar to most New Yorkers. We would all do well to pay better attention, as the program could sap the state's public education budget. ... be possible for the...

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The Haitian Earthquake: Response, Relief & Recovery

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01/14/2010

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Addresses Road Safety Issues in Mumbai

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02/23/2015

... Issues in Mumbai Billionaire media mogul and former New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was in India ... safety laws and other measures. The organisation spent as much in the first phase of the...

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MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

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03/17/2015

... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ...

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Citi is Giving Women the Tools to Shatter the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap

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03/20/2015

... across all income brackets in American cities. But as a Boston-based trading platform recently revealed, amazing ... the Fortune 1000 run by women CEOs brought in three-times as many returns as...

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Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

... The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated programming, ...

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Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans

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03/26/2015

... of challenges that put them at risk for homelessness as they transition out of the military into civilian ... transferrable career skills and difficulty adjusting to new self-identities in civilian culture...

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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

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04/03/2015

... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build civic literacy and engagement...." Rita .....

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Nadia Alia Appointed Manager, Grants and Communications at The Tow Foundation

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04/20/2015

... The Tow Foundation. She joined The Foundation in 2013 as grants manager. She will continue this work and expand her ... of the Program Committee of Grants Managers Network, New York Chapter. She is also the...

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Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

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04/29/2015

... address the world's pressing issues. Each team selected as a winner of the Genesis Generation Challenge will be ... project. Winning project concepts focus on subjects such as public health, education,...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds

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05/06/2015

... the first and only public foundation dedicated to New York City’s largest borough, is launching Invest in ...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance

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05/19/2015

... in Boston and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to launch the largest study to date of pre-treatment ...

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include ... to integrate the liberal arts into engineering curricula as part of each campus's...

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Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd

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06/04/2015

Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd The 2016 ... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China. China’s middle .....

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