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The New York Women's Foundation

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Casey Family Programs Addresses Links Between Food Insecurity And Child Welfare

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02/27/2017

... Mrs. McAuliffe serves as chair of the NGA Spouses’ Leadership Committee and through her work on the committee, has chosen to shine a spotlight on childhood hunger and nutrition in ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

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Surdna Foundation's Board Announces Phillip Henderson’s Departure

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11/14/2017

... parent faces when one of their own children leaves home to pursue their dreams. Make no mistake, the Surdna ... Foundation will seriously miss Phil. We will miss his leadership , modesty and professionalism in...

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Bank of America Issues $2.25 Billion Green Bond

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05/23/2018

... Bond The bond, the largest green bond issued by the bank to date, advances the company's commitment to deploying capital to advance sustainable projects. With ... energy projects since...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion

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10/28/2013

... the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the ... Latin America, the Middle East, and the United...

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17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks

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01/30/2014

... Foundation are among the 17 foundations who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and ... foundations with nearly $2-billion in assets have vowed to divest the fossil-fuel stocks in...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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The Educational Foundation of America

Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

... These are some of the names that are being used to describe philanthropic models that go far beyond the ... and often take a deep and long-term view of what it means to invest in solving global...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The Rockefeller Foundation

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations Invest $24 Million in Secondary Education

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05/06/2014

... secondary education, reports Triple Pundit. At the Global Philanthropy Forum last week, MacArthur Foundation and ... from the funder collaborative launched in 2012 that seeks to increase secondary education...

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Education

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

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05/05/2014

... the Breakthrough Health Care Opportunities program to discover and vet transformative ideas in health care. It ... and unsustainably so. And although many would like to believe that all that spending buys us...

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Health

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Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

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06/13/2014

... solutions over the past 20 years, especially its efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution. According to Inside Philanthropy, as of May,...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small ... foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation--want to see if the rapidly growing global supply chains that...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

... Foundation in October 2013, says he will restart grants to peace and global -security efforts, and increase the amount of money the foundation contributes to programs that deal with urban...

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Social Justice

Mastercard Foundation Announces New University Partnerships in Africa

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12/08/2014

... announced that over 2,300 university students will be able to hit the books in classrooms in Uganda, South Africa and ... next year. The Foundation is committing $86.6 million to work in collaboration with...

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school leaders, in terms of having an impact on student outcomes. We needed ways to better prepare them, support them, and to...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

... by stories of amazing girls and women who are standing up to injustice and demanding a better future. Whether at home, in school, at work, or on the global stage, these acts of courage are changing the world...

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Gender Justice

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis Janssen and Johnson & Johnson have ... latest commitment will spur further innovations in other global public...

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China The MetLife ... Foundation has announced a three-year, $1.8 million grant to Opportunity International to promote knowledge and...

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism The Ford Foundation will continue to finance projects that address inequality in access to ... Abregu, the foundation's...

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Community Development

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... fine. Here at NoVo, we recognize that there is a huge need to focus on support for girls of color. ” Historically, ... Until recently, that focus was directed toward work in the Global South, which the...

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Gender Justice

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse A new global report shows that money doesn't buy everything when it comes to health care in the United States. When compared to 12 other...

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