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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

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04/14/2016

... Fund (NFF) is partnering with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on a collaborative effort to examine how ... committee of nonprofit, foundation, government and financial -sector...

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Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees

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06/21/2016

... was to target students who were vulnerable to dropping out of college for academic, personal or financial reasons and send them to a college with a big ...

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Education

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014

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07/20/2016

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Only a Third of These Obamacare Insurers Made Money on Their Plans in 2014 ... that uncertainty about how to price Obamacare plans, as well inaccurate guesses about the health...

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Milbank Memorial Fund's Koller Comments on Consequences of Dumping Essential Benefits

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03/24/2017

Milbank Memorial Fund's Koller Comments on Consequences of Dumping Essential Benefits A last-minute attempt by ... the average consumer’s upfront insurance costs, such as premiums and deductibles, said...

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Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary

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04/20/2017

... Anniversary April 19, 2017, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Russell Sage Foundation by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), the widow of railroad magnate and...

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies In most ... billionaire financier and philanthropist would be a source of great pride, a person many elected officials would want to...

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans ... general. “This company’s actions have jeopardized the...

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Education

U.S. Median Income Hit $59,039 in 2016, The Highest Ever Reported by Census Bureau

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09/12/2017

... Bureau reported Tuesday. Median income is a key measure of the economic health of the U.S. middle class, which struggled during the slow ... growth of the early 2000s and was devastated by...

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Economic Security

Middle-Class Incomes Rise, But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities

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09/13/2017

... But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities The incomes of middle-class Americans rose last year to the highest level ever recorded by the Census Bureau, as poverty declined and the scars of...

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Economic Security

Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

... to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s ... $25 million toward a $90-million transformation project of the Asian Art Museum here. It...

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Arts

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

... large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts. Community Capital Management’s CRA-Qualified ... fund to receive a third-party rating for impact . Just as third-party ratings have become...

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The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Recognizes Young Volunteers from Every State

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10/17/2017

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Recognizes Young Volunteers from Every ... community service. The program, sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of...

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Civic Engagement

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The Ford Foundation's $1.0 Billion Bond - A Briefing Note from SeaChange Capital Partners

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06/22/2020

... week that it would roughly double its grantmaking in each of the next two years. This is terrific as the immense challenges of the present moment require this ... been labelled a “Social Bond...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.9 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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02/07/2022

... organizations. The Gerstner Helping Hands program provides financial resources to assist individuals facing a one-time, ... utilities, medical expenses, and food. Read the full list of 2022 Helping Hands...

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Housing and Homelessness

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How Groundswell is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis

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03/30/2020

... Our team is here and standing strong with our grantees as they play indispensable roles in their communities during ... Groundswell community, what is behind the curtain is not new ; our grantee partners have...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Retaining and Sustaining Leaders in the Social Sector

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01/30/2025

... From Exhaustion to Sustainability: Promoting Cultures of Wellbeing for Social Impact Leaders In speaking with ... and DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging) — as well as our...

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31 Oct 2019

Not One More: The Fight to Stop Southeast Asian Deportation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

... refugees experienced war, the uncertainty and instability of refugee camps, and genocide. However, more than 16,000 ... from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos have been issued orders of deportation since 1998 due to...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Catalytic Investment to Eliminate Two Neglected Tropical Diseases in East Africa

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04/26/2022

... Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The investment will accelerate treatment and elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis ... accelerating...

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Trump Denies He Made A Deal With Democrats On DREAMer Protections

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09/14/2017

... Democrats On DREAMer Protections It wasn't long before President Trump pushed back after leading Democrats said they ... border with Mexico that excludes Trump's longtime promise of a wall between...

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