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

Release Date:

10/19/2015

... Children and a Career? Almost half of women in the G20 are confident that having children won't wreck their career, ... Only 23 percent fear a negative impact and the rest are uncertain. Brazil tops the...

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Gender Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ford and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in SE Asia

Release Date:

11/23/2015

A new mentoring program from the Center of Khmer Studies is training nearly a dozen participants from across the region in the cornerstone of higher-education: research

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Henry Luce Foundation

Ford Foundation

Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers

Release Date:

03/04/2016

Wall Street has recently seen its share of young analysts leave their six-figure salary jobs to join the scrappier worlds of start-ups, nonprofits and even food trucks. A new program for young analysts to compete for donations to a charity of their...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Goldman Sachs Bank USA [Corporate]

Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

Release Date:

03/15/2016

Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sam Kass, founder of Trove and chef, write that food loss costs the world economy almost $1 trillion annually.

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Food Systems

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

Release Date:

05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

Release Date:

02/01/2017

... around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist ...

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Immigration

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

Release Date:

03/24/2017

... invest in reducing food waste can expect a 14:1 ROI — are increasingly researched and understood. Now, a new pilot ...

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

Release Date:

04/03/2017

The event connects Academy graduates with representatives of top leadership development programs to continue developing future nonprofit and social purpose leaders.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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American Express

Helmsley Charitable Trust and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Support Effort to Untangle a Growing Web of Ocean Conservation Funding

Release Date:

04/26/2017

A new online effort hopes to provide a centralized entry point into the variety of work happening in marine conservation and its funding sources.

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

Release Date:

05/01/2017

... why people leave theoretically cush tech jobs. What are the motivations of "tech leavers"? More than anything .....

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Social Justice

Workforce Development

With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans

Release Date:

05/05/2017

... they have been incarcerated at some point in their lives are more likely to express anxiety about several aspects of ... incarceration has on older Americans long after they are released," said Trevor...

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Economic Security

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

Release Date:

06/02/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

Release Date:

07/06/2017

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies "Wayne Tracker" cannot be forced to testify under oath. He does not exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can be...

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Environment and Climate Change

Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

Release Date:

08/04/2017

To bolster the 1968 Fair Housing Act, we need a new “economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage local ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire neighborhoods and their schools.

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Community Development

Economic Security

Housing and Homelessness

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

Release Date:

08/16/2017

... Foundation’s work on financial innovation. "There are many, many municipalities that have the exact same .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

Release Date:

09/07/2017

One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem. The benefits of the program...