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Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

Release Date:

10/24/2014

... young, motivated, and unemployed. And while the problem of youth unemployment, occuring between ages 16 to 24, has gradually improved lately, things are still ... that. Foundations have taken any number...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

23 Mar 2015

Holistic Monitoring and Evaluation for Peace and Security Work - Webinar

Monday, March 23, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In this webinar, we will explore how to use holistic–mixed-methods and ... and evaluation (M&E) to better understand the impact of programs, organizations and thematic grant giving. .....

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Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

Release Date:

03/10/2015

Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap ... educational and community organizations to prepare members of the U.S. workforce for twenty-first century...

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Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program

Release Date:

03/27/2015

Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program The Aetna Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating .....

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Food Systems

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Aetna Foundation

Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

Release Date:

08/17/2015

Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing Let's say that you budget a certain amount of money to give to charity every year, based on...

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Doris Duke and Simons Foundations Back Breakthrough Sickle Cell Research

Release Date:

09/18/2015

... hemoglobin disorders, such as thalassemia. This stretch of DNA, called an enhancer, controls the molecular switch ... whether a red blood cell produces the adult form of hemoglobin — which in SCD is mutated —...

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The Simons Foundation

BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

Release Date:

10/19/2015

... women's collective philanthropy -- pooling funds together to exponentially increase community impact. Women make over 60 percent of their families' charitable contributions and when contributing...

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Gender Justice

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

Release Date:

12/15/2015

... The amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain's temporal lobe, has long been associated with ... disorders, Platt said. "What we're trying to do is both identify and understand...

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The Simons Foundation

Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

Release Date:

01/07/2016

... (Capital One) The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully slow recovery have housing prices begun to ... the first...

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Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

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01/26/2016

... in the oceans -- including those that capture half of the carbon taken out of the atmosphere every day -- viruses are a major threat. But a paper to be published Jan. 25, 2016 in the journal...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/03/2016

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness) A team of University of Iowa and ... Health, the Doris Duke...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... The organization is targeting the most critical issues of our time, from immigration and criminal justice reform to the future of our youth. This approach— to lead and .....

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Brooklyn Org

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... that when overactivated causes severe insomnia. Expression of the gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature's stimulant--fish lacking the gene take ... Research Council, University College...

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Artstor President James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence

Release Date:

05/02/2016

... Mariët Westermann, president and vice president of the Foundation, respectively, on topics of strategic ... digital technologies can support institutional imperatives to be inclusive and...

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Philanthropy Must Shift Power to Others

Release Date:

05/06/2016

Philanthropy Must Shift Power to Others By Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Co-Presidents of the NoVo Foundation Reprinted with permission from NoVo ... first place, by carefully examining not only on what we ...

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Insights

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Every Experience Builds Expertise

Release Date:

08/16/2016

... Public Policy Intern It’s not often a 17-year-old gets to work in the foundation world. Three months ago, I didn’t ... Stephanie Chrispin . The high school mentor component of the fellowship program was funded...

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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

Release Date:

08/24/2016

Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist In the private sector, no one thinks that great investments are easy to find. A 2010 study found that the median...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits

Release Date:

11/28/2016

... Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits As nonprofits prepare to comply with the new Fair Labor Standards Act rule on ... an even higher threshold. We are calling on our members to join us in raising concerns...

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RFPs Etc

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16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* ... for help with tougher issues such as preparing heirs to be responsible givers, dealing...

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Leadership Development

28 Feb 2017

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium XI: Driving Mission Through Changing Times

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -

8:00am to 12:00pm

Join the Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York as they present the "BBB Charity ... Speakers Stephen Heintz , President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund...