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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and Wallace Foundation will be investing millions of dollars in research into what makes a principal effective.

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NY Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women

Release Date:

03/29/2016

New York Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women Eleanor Roosevelt, former ... . . NY Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Invest $30 Million in Arts and Cultural Organizations

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04/03/2015

The program was piloted in New York City and will expand to six additional cities nationwide.

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

Release Date:

02/26/2018

... Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments Clara Miller, who has headed the F.B. Heron ... foundation's $300 million endowment entirely into impact investments . As of...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Earmarks Entire Endowment for Social Impact Investments

Release Date:

10/21/2014

... Foundation Earmarks Entire Endowment for Social Impact Investments When Clara Miller took over the F.B. Heron ... would move its entire $300 million endowment into investments that provide both social and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces $65 Million Investment in America’s Working Families

Release Date:

02/25/2020

Aims to Widen the Pathway to Prosperity for More than 10 Million Low-Wage Workers and their Families; Launches New U.S. Initiative to Leverage Over $1 Billion in Private Capital by 2025

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

F.B. Heron Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation discussed in Forbes article on impact investing.

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

Changing Americans’ access to healthy nutrition and replacing those food deserts with well-stocked stores starts at the local level, says Dr. Garth Graham, president of the nonprofit Aetna Foundation, which each year provides funding to local...

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JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

Release Date:

09/15/2017

JPMorgan Chase wants to do for Chicago's South and West sides what it has begun to do for Detroit. The nation's biggest bank, and also the largest in Chicago, is committing $40 million over the next three years to help rebuild and re-energize parts...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

Google announced new online tools and more than $1 billion in funding for nonprofits that seek to close gaps in education and the labor market nationwide.

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Mark Abrahams Joins FJC as Chief Financial and Investment Officer

Release Date:

08/19/2014

Mark Abrahams has been appointed Chief Financial and Investment Officer of FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds.

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The Rockefeller Foundation Invests $4.6 Million To Scale Food Is Medicine Initiatives in U.S.

Release Date:

11/30/2022

Grants will help prevent, manage, and treat diet-related illnesses among food-insecure Americans

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Neighborhood Strength is a resident-led investment program that brings community members together at the neighborhood-level to identify, and direct funding to, solutions that target significant local challenges.

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NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls

Release Date:

02/28/2017

Ana Oliveira, President and CEO of the NY Women's Foundation, argues that "if we want the low-income girls of our city to be as healthy, stable, and successful as possible, we need to better recognize, respect, and bolster the strengths of the low-...

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Investing in Leadership Volume 2: Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy’s Last Frontier

Publication date:

02/2006

A Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication that explores a sampling of the leadership development being utilized now in the nonprofit sector. Also contains case studies about leadership development.

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2013 Outlook Uncertain for Small Nonprofits, Brighter for Impact Investing

Release Date:

12/29/2012

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President and CEO Melissa Berman shared her thoughts on philanthropic trends for the upcoming year.

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Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

Release Date:

08/14/2013

Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Group will fund the expansion of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake City's Granite School District through a social impact bond.