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The Rockefeller Foundation and USAID Launch $100 Million Partnership

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08/04/2014

... U.S. Agency for International Development have announced a $100 million partnership to build resilience to chronic stresses and increasing climate shocks in communities across Africa and Asia. Announced at the...

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Burman, Viera Named to Board of Funders for LGBTQ Issues

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08/14/2014

... director, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the M. A .C. AIDS Fund, and Bia Vieira, vice president of ... for LGBTQ Issues. Rohit has spent more than decade in philanthropy, previously working at JP Morgan...

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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

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09/08/2014

... — mainly, did their kids get the best ones? But what if, in the interest of educational improvement, we paused to ... has, traditionally, been overlooked. How about a new education reform...

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We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change

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09/23/2014

We're at a Tipping Point Over Climate Change Across the globe, ... change. It seems we might even be at a tipping point in the global battle against climate change. After all, new...

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... into philanthropy. Charities are also benefiting from a giving surge by people in their 50s and 60s, especially those seeking to get their ... Fidelity reported a burst of giving after...

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research

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10/27/2014

... Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research A new study has found that implementing stricter fisheries ... detrimental effects of climate change disturbances in coral reef fisheries...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... poor and middle-class families fall through the cracks, a range of institutions have set out to change the situation. ... a handful of institutions will announce an ambitious new effort on...

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Education

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PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care

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10/30/2014

... of the nation's most isolated seniors. Fortunately, a number of funders have been locked onto this issue for a while now. Recently, I wrote about what the New York Community Trust was...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Announces Detroit Service Corps to Strengthen City's Nonprofit Community

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11/04/2014

... Nonprofit Community JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced a new five-year program that sends teams of top-performing ...

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Community Development

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Daphne Foundation President Highlighted as one of "Seven Women Who Change Their Worlds"

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11/05/2014

... themselves," an outlook shared by those involved with The New York Women's Foundation. As an example, she cites the ... services to drug addicts, sex workers and homeless women in Coney Island. After...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), a UN initiative to increase access to microfinance and other ... of investment capital for small businesses and individuals in developing countries, to...

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William T. Grant Foundation Announces Scholars Finalists

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11/09/2014

... plans designed to expand their skills and knowledge in a new discipline, content area, or method. Applicants are ...

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Taking the Time to Learn in Transition: How the Ford Foundation Board Revamped the Traditional CEO Search

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11/13/2014

Taking the Time to Learn in Transition: How the Ford Foundation Board Revamped the Traditional CEO Search GEO recently convened a diverse group of foundation trustees and CEOs at the Ford Foundation in...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With CMMI to Spread "Hospital at Home" Model of Care

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11/14/2014

John A . Hartford Foundation Forges Public-Private Partnership With ... older adults, the John A . Hartford Foundation has formed a new public-private partnership with the Centers...

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

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11/20/2014

... As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to a close and the global aid community embarks on the post-2015 ... by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative...

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

... Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ... has awarded 13 organizations a total of $5.26-million in 14...

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... past two years, everyone’s been focused on resilience in the context of Sandy-like storms, but that’s because we had a Sandy-like storm. But there are a lot of other potential ... for those...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

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12/10/2014

Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities Fifty municipalities are now ... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is ...

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Technology

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