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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’

Release Date:

09/05/2017

They are the schools Mayor de Blasio doesn’t mention. At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English-math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row.

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Whatsapp Co-Founder Brian Acton Is Leaving The Company To Start His Own Foundation

Release Date:

09/13/2017

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own non-profit.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

'We're Trying to Go All In': Chocolate Giant Mars Pledges $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change

Release Date:

09/14/2017

The chocolate giant Mars is promising to spend close to $1 billion over the next few years fighting climate change.

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

Release Date:

10/03/2017

School districts from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and have begun preparations to identify which schools have space and which resources will be needed.

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

The former USAID administrator, and president of one of the United States’ largest foundations, reflects on the role of philanthropy in times of austerity and the greatest challenges Rockefeller is undertaking both domestically and abroad.

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International/Foreign Affairs

Capital One and Others Fund Tech Training for Youth

Release Date:

06/29/2018

Operation Spark is training local youth and adults for high-tech careers of the future.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Capital One Foundation

The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

Release Date:

07/06/2018

At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory are collaborating to form the Connecticut Pain Consortium.

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Health

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BNY Mellon Supports Australia’s First Commercial Thermal Waste-To-Energy Plant

Release Date:

11/14/2018

The facility arrangement will fund construction of Australia’s first thermal Waste-to-Energy (W2E) power generation facility in Kwinana, Western Australia. The transaction closed on October 18, 2018.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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BNY

Rockefeller Foundation Partners with African Development Bank to Open Doors for Nigerian Women in ICT

Release Date:

04/04/2019

The Bank, together with its partners - The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook announced the holding of the class in March on International Women's Day, as part of a concerted push to close the gender gap in the representation of women in...

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Macquarie Group Announces Winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award

Release Date:

08/27/2019

We’re proud to announce the five winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Membership Eligibility and Structure

... to align a new member with our January or July renewal calendar . Is the membership for the entire organization ...

42nd Annual Meeting Recap - Looking Back, Moving Forward

... measures To dive deeper, Angela Park shared Embedding Justice and Equity Key Components of O rganizational Work ... guided us through key lessons informed by racial justice movement leaders and philanthropic...

15 Aug 2018

Erasing Representation: The Implications of the Census Citizenship Question on Reapportionment & Redistricting - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Funders ' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has ... , Senior Counsel of Democracy Pogram, B rennan Center for Justice Thomas Saenz , President and General...

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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families

Release Date:

06/25/2013

... to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders about future partnerships between foundations and ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Public Policy

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation

Post-Sandy Assistance Needed for Long Term

Release Date:

05/22/2013

... Grantmakers President Nina Stack talks about the role funders can play in providing long-term relief after ...

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Disaster Relief

Six Months Later

Release Date:

05/08/2013

... of Hurricane Sandy recovery, Health and Environmental Funders Network Communications Associate Lauren Linville ...

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Disaster Relief

Which Nonprofits Are Most Ready for Capacity Building?

Release Date:

07/20/2012

TCC Group Senior Consultant Alice Hill shares her experience managing the Challenge Fund for Journalism (a funder collaborative of the Ford, Knight, McCormick and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism foundations) and learning some of the most...