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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

... which asked small groups of young people (14-19) to think about and create ways to educate their peers about social media and social good. Two prizes of $5,000 each ...

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Survey from Thomson Reuters Foundation and Rockefeller: Can You Have Children and a Career?

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10/19/2015

... by South Africa, Turkey, Indonesia and India where about three-fifths are optimistic about having both. By contrast, it is women in some of the ...

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Gender Justice

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... a lot of money. In 2013, 21 percent of U.S. households ( about 62 million people) reported speaking a language other ... becomes more diverse, it’s just good practice to think about what form information...

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NY State Health Foundation Sees Need to Educate Consumers on State Obamacare Offerings

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11/02/2015

... Paniagua is a single mom living in the Bronx. She earns about $400 a week, which she says doesn’t last her very ... “There is a big burden on the state to get the word out about this new program,” said Amy...

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New York Health Foundation

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted some concern about the their long-term viability. But UnitedHealth Group's ... market before the ACA passed, and currently covers only about 5 percent of...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo made it clear you were about to see a Very Important Person. The procession began ... a glimpse of the soaring greenhouse atrium, a volume of about 1.6 million cubic feet. . . A...

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... a tremendous number of studies, forecasts, and scenarios about the future of work," said Claudia Juech, associate vice ... the next five years." In the sea of current thinking about this urgent topic...

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Workforce Development

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

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02/18/2016

... his check-writing habit. There’s something beautiful about my grandfather’s generosity. Yet as his generation ... a list of the board of directors, and detailed information about how the charity spends the...

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Jewish Interests

UJA-Federation of New York

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values, ... said 3,000 homes were sold in Detroit in 2015, and only about 500 involved mortgages...

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Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... labeled “how to do” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental sets of assumptions related to the ... if needed, revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an...

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Wisdom from Our Editorial Board, and Our Readers

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07/20/2016

... the design and content was based largely on our intuitions about what funders, nonprofits and other readers wanted to know about our field. News about what New York area foundations are doing...

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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

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08/08/2016

... Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence About 9 in 10 young adults say they support criminal ... gun laws are supported by 9 in 10 young adults, including about 9 in 10 whites, Asian-Americans...

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Justice Reform

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... late, as we've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about , private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 ... in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we've written about a long list of...

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Education

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their ... these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing can be informative and ...

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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

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01/23/2017

... Another group passed by. Then a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to ... refugee emergency. Tsartsanis didn’t have to think long about what he should do. He ran and...

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Immigration

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Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

... culture as a strategy to advance policy. Full information about this Request for Proposals is available here . ... to share this Request for Proposals with others. Questions about the proposal process should...

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The New York Community Trust

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign adversaries than they ... Every year, the Building Bridges program awards about $1 million to $3 million to...

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Arts

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

... a pretty Christian leaning, including a Carson Wentz tweet about God. Ramadan is actually one of the first things on ... from Furrukh, a Muslim member of the Philabundance board, about making sure that the...

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Food Systems

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Questions about how to handle nuclear waste have long eluded consensus ... nuclear waste? Is it possible to change the narrative about nuclear waste from a burden to a...

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