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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery pastry dough and flaky pie crusts. He...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, ... in to pitch Ackman and...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and ... billion, is a staff-favorite science philanthropist due to his quirky personality,...

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He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy

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08/22/2017

... After David Rockefeller’s death on March 20, at the age of 101, the New York Times ran a full-page obituary about his ... of his time at Chase Bank, but gave only passing attention to...

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas Nonprofits in flood-ravaged South ... Maislin, chief executive of the Greater Houston Community ...

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One Difference between Katrina and Harvey: Availability of Information Resources

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09/06/2017

One Difference between Katrina and Harvey: Availability of Information Resources A Message from the President of ... past what is good and bring it into the present in order to make positive...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg ... pledged more than $36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “It’s permanent ... As we’ve seen, permanence and solvability are front- of -mind for some of today’s leading...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building ... classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre wavy rectangle 200 feet off ... reached by two narrow bridges, replacing the remains of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where...

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Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women and gender identity have been central to the policies coming out of the...

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology ... that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen...

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... Findings from Intergenerational Conference In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of ... residents themselves ranged in age from those in...

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ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications

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03/08/2018

ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications At a recent ComNetwork session panel ... provide through brief presentations in storytelling format to arrive at four unique perspectives on the importance...

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Ford and PBS Partner on Documentary Series

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06/15/2018

... Series On Friday, June 15, 2018, PBS will premiere Ford Foundation funded BREAKING BIG, a 12-episode documentary series, explores the unexpected journey to success of some of...

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Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact

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06/20/2018

Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact In today’s increasingly complex ... in New York City, where Caroline Roan, Vice President of Corporate Responsibility...

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26 Sep 2018

How International Education Funders Facilitate Learning Among Grantees - and Translation of Practice into Policy - A Brown Bag Lunch

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12:00pm to 2:00pm

... education funders have been working with a wide spectrum of primary and secondary schools, community-based organizations, NGOs and governments to improve access, quality, and relevance of...

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United Hospital Fund Names 2019 Patricia S. Levinson Fellow

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04/03/2019

... was established in 2017 with the generous support of the Robert A. and Patricia S. Levinson Award Fund at the New York Community Trust to advance UHF’s work improving health care for vulnerable ... on a new...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... transition from a California public benefit corporation to a business corporation, with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation , an independent nonprofit organization that...

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