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The Nathan Cummings Foundation is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the fourth cycle of the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship, which provides three individuals with up to $150,000 each to pursue a visionary social justice...

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Rajiv Shah on Rockefeller Foundation Priorities, Multilateralism and Philanthropy

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04/20/2017

Amid a mood of global distrust toward institutions, philanthropic foundations must prioritize winning public confidence, including by partnering together and taking risks, said Rajiv Shah in some of his first public remarks since taking the helm of...

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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

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08/30/2017

... research showing that the practice puts young people at risk of serious, lifelong harm. More than 200,000 children ...

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

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09/05/2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting combating climate change, delivering an implicit rebuke to his American counterpart, Donald Trump.

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More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC

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09/26/2017

... severely food insecure and about 400,000 children are at risk of malnutrition. . . More Than 1 Million People Uprooted ...

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data. But ...

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A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market

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10/10/2017

... to generate sustainable returns and better manage risk . On a human level, it means incorporating the desire to ...

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Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

... ratings have become essential for judging financial risk of an investment, third-party verification of impact is ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire

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05/12/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, Donald J. Waters, will retire on August 31, 2019 after 20 years of exceptional service at the Foundation.