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Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change

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07/06/2017

Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change By Zia Khan, Vice President , Initiatives and Strategy, The Rockefeller Foundation This content originally appeared in What ... results-based funding. Our work at the The...

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance ... contracts using social impact bonds. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance ... The competition,...

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted several foundation efforts to support education in science, ... Trust, Time Warner and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation . About 37,000 new math and science...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

The John A. Hartford Foundation is seeking feedback on their Change AGEnts ... Initiative. When I was first hired at the John A. Hartford Foundation , I gave one of the then-Senior Program Officers a ... proposals...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment ... contractors owned by women and people of color. The Surdna Foundation ’s Board of Trustees has approved the creation of ... using its capital to...

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Perpetuity, continued

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04/24/2014

... (you can see Bruce’s summary of the session here ). A foundation veteran who for many years led the Communications Network, the trade association for foundation communication officers, Bruce has a knack for...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... nonprofits and foundations–-including The Rockefeller Foundation --want to see if the rapidly growing global supply ... a social responsibility consultancy. The Rockefeller Foundation has committed $100 million...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

... Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation . The library received $500,000 for its “Check ...

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16 Moments of Pride for LGBTQ Philanthropy

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06/30/2014

... include: 1970 - RESIST , a Massachusetts-based foundation founded in 1967 to support opposition to the ... $350,000 to LGBTQ issues. 1977 - The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is born in New York City,...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... Pipeline Of School Principals Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with several organizations ... for the city's schools. Among the stipulations of the foundation 's grant: a...

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Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

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08/28/2014

... Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how ... is a member of the Executives’ Alliance, a group of foundation leaders who work on...

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... to its Last Billion Dollars The once ultrasecretive foundation funded by Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as a ... in the next two years. But unlike the early days of the foundation , when it went to great...

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The Spend-Out Presumption And The Value Of Enduring Institutions

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02/26/2010

... my last contribution , I wrote that focusing simply on foundation perpetuity or spending out was, per se , a ... first and foremost, and (2) considering other forms of foundation “existence,” such as ...

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court A foundation is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a ... after he died in 2008. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation filed a notice Friday with the...

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

... is supported by JP Morgan Chase & Co., as well as Ford Foundation , MetLife Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation , and by the Aspen Institute Financial Security ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... (RPB), in partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced the first grantees in its ... The recipient of the first RPB/...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... competition is funded with support from The Rockefeller Foundation , the Joyce Foundation , the NASDAQ foundation , and Eric and Wendy Schmidt... Supported by ...

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

... Additional support is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation , the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Jerome Robbins Foundation . The Family Series is sponsored by Queens Center ...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

... Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California As the NoVo Foundation gets into its grantmaking from the $90 million in ... 1993, will be the recipient of new funding from the NoVo Foundation to support its work...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... $20 Million to Women's Groups The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years ... in New York. While details are still forthcoming, the foundation said the money...

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