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City to Overhaul 11 More Parks on Restoration Program As Its Cost Grows to $318 Million

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09/27/2017

Eleven more parks will be fixed up under a city program — and the initiative's cost has jumped by $33 million.

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A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market

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10/10/2017

Responsible investment means incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions to generate sustainable returns and better manage risk.

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Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

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10/27/2017

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has received a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the conservation, mounting and study of Asian paintings.

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Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment

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02/16/2018

... into space. Traveling on a SpaceX Dragon rocket, their project will land at the International Space Station in June ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Perry Cammack as the Program Director of Peacebuilding

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01/29/2019

... architect of “Arab World Horizons,” a three-year project that engaged civil society leaders and activists, ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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First-of-its-kind Study From the Century Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools?

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04/04/2019

... to further isolate students by race and class. This project looks at the charter school policies and enrollment ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy

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10/2007

How do foundations maximize their impact? What is the role of strategy? Is your foundation strategic? ...

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Family Foundations Prepare for the Next Generation

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02/08/2013

... grown up. Independence is great; interdependence is what keeps them together when we’re gone... Family ...

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The Charitable-Industrial Complex

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08/26/2013

... of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my ...

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Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

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12/02/2013

... Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works. In 2005, Nancy Roob became president of the Edna ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

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11/01/2013

... is a different and perhaps more pernicious problem with what has been come to be known as "strategic philanthropy." .....

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Carnegie Praised for Preserving the Spirit of Philanthropy

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04/13/2015

... Imagine if John D. Rockefeller had not established what is now Rockefeller University and donated more than $500 ...

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Ford's Walker Explores the Value of Civil Society in Recent Report

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07/09/2015

... "...human progress has always been propelled...by what happens in civil society - citizens coming together to .....

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Ford Foundation: The Equity Series- Cultural Equity

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03/14/2016

... in contemporary society, Walker and Williams will discuss what "cultural equity" means, the intellectual and structural .....

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $5.6M to Enable Residencies for Playwrights

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04/11/2016

... 18 theaters across the country, including two in Boston. What that means, in a profession that is notoriously short on ...

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Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic

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04/21/2016

... The U.S. Education Secretary John King is frustrated by what he describes as the “ahistorical nature” of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Youth Crime Prevention Program

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04/29/2016

... Program For Memphis Gun Down, the mission is more than what the name implies. It’s a misconception to think the ...

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