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Digital Storytelling for Social Impact

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06/02/2014

Digital Storytelling for Social Impact The ubiquity of digital technology and the explosion of content on the Internet have made it increasingly ... and engage them in meaningful ways. Organizations of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Communications

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19 States May Be Violating Laws Requiring Them To Assist Consumers With Health Care Choices

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06/25/2014

... Fund analysis finds that 19 states may be in violation of laws requiring them to assist consumers understand their ... under the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). Authors of a post on the Commonwealth blog,...

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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning Self-control, curiosity, “grit” ... showing that both conscientiousness (which he defines as a tendency to be “diligent, dutiful and...

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Education

F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

... practices we use to construct our philanthropy, just as radically as Starrett Brothers and Eken did. We have ... often more grounded in an inside-out, funder-centric point of view than the...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Commonwealth Fund's Blumenthal Explores Health Data Security in WSJ Editorial

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05/01/2015

... Data Security in WSJ Editorial With the rapid spread of electronic health records, much critical health data is ... materialize unless some problems are solved along the way . The most important is assuring the...

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The New York Community Trust

Technology

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Increases Commitment to Environment of Madagascar

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06/18/2015

... Charitable Trust Increases Commitment to Environment of Madagascar The grant brings the amount of support the Trust has committed to Madagascar to more than ... and cultural value for the communities ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth

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08/05/2015

... to share their stories in their own words and in their own way . “When my daughter first came out as transgender almost three years ago, my wife and I had a ... resources around trans issues and instead saw a...

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LGBTQ

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... few places in the world more beautiful than the landscape of salmon-rich rivers that flow into Bristol Bay, Alaska. I arrived there seven years ago not as a sportsman or ecotourist, as most...

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Environment and Climate Change

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In Chronicle OpEd, JM Kaplan’s Leaders Discuss Innovation Prize

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11/12/2015

... watching applications trickle in. Would we catch the eye of wildly inventive social innovators? As a family foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund has supported ... to find and fund those projects, priming the pump...

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Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth

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01/08/2016

Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth Aging out of foster care can be a difficult process. With little ... the case for former foster youth. With average income...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer Glioblastoma multiforme is a ... deadly cancer. A person diagnosed with this type of brain tumor typically survives 15 months, if given the ... by...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... may his memory be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work ... beautiful about my grandfather’s generosity. Yet as his generation peters out, this...

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Jewish Interests

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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... have been for decades. In the Northeast, 51.4 percent of black students attend schools where 90 percent to 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 ... 30 percent from 1991 to 2010...

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How Mobile Games Can Help You Identify Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation)

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03/28/2016

... Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation) Those of a certain age probably heard it time and again while ... growth of technology has changed the economy: the way we work, find jobs,...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

... When I think back to the social movements I learned about as a kid — from women's suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, black-and-white photos of people, young and old, with picket signs marching...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... -- foundational ways to keep people healthy, such as...

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Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and Co-author Talks About “Say Her Name”

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05/10/2016

Andrea Ritchie coordinates the policing subgroup of the LGBT federal criminal justice working group. She gave ... enforcement. “NYC Housing Police shot Eleanor Bumpers as they were evicting her for being a few...

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

... to Treat Asthma Angel's Story looks at the early success of a home-visit program at Northwest Assistance Ministries ... including asthma. The video follows 14-year-old Angel as the program works to remedy...

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Video

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Episcopal Health Foundation

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... telling her when and how to put down salt - a cheap way to boost coconut yields - how to spot pests, and how to better manage her finances. The messages are part of FarmerLink, a pilot project set up by a...

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