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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

FarmerLink, a pilot project set up by a consortium to make small-scale coconut farmers in the Philippines more resilient to shocks like natural disasters and pests, and increase their productivity, takes advantage of mobile technology.

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Food Systems

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Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years

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06/19/2017

... effects. By 2026, 924,000 jobs would be lost, gross state products would be $93 billion lower, and business output ...

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Health

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The Tow Foundation Announces Playwrights in Residence

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08/03/2017

The Tow Foundation announces their 2017-2018 Tow Playwrights-in-Residence at seven New York nonprofit theater companies. Each theater has been awarded a $75,000 grant to support their selected playwright.

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy's Impermanent Landscape , a contemporary dance performance in the round choreographed by Valerie Green and supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, will be performed at Dance at the Voelker Orth Museum and Garden.

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Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive

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08/24/2017

... are trying their hand at distributing life-changing products by having the poor pay for them. To attract ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is

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08/30/2017

... charities in more than 75 countries, with more than 300 products — ranging from salad dressing and pasta sauce to ...

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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

... the subject with Celene Gomes da Silva, who sells Nestlé products door-to-door in poor neighborhoods of Fortaleza and ...

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

Amazon.com Inc. plans to open an office on the far West Side of Manhattan and create more than 2,000 jobs in New York City.

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Community Development

Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

A report titled, “Staten Island Needs Assessment,” has revealed significant gaps in access to addiction treatment in the borough.

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Health

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Investing in product safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

... hiring, pay and promotion practices as well as their products and services. The Impact Shares YWCA Women's .....

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Gender Justice

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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

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11/28/2017

... for millions, the full spectrum of consumer financial products and services—from retirement savings, to ...

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Economic Security

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to establish the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellows, three new research positions that will allow the service to expand its storytelling...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Justice

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of residents around the theme of “Youth as Agents of Transformative Change.” Participants hailed from eight different countries, representing academia, the...

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Photojournalist Documents Moments From the San Quentin State Prison Marathon on Open Society Foundations' Weekly Instagram Takeover

Release Date:

01/22/2018

Open Society Foundations enlists photojournalist Jianca Lazarus to give us a look inside the 2017 11th Annual San Quentin Marathon.

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Justice Reform

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... company’s widely used customer relationship management products to make employee giving more personalized, ...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

Release Date:

04/26/2018

The South Orange Performing Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to advance its arts education program.

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William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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The Public Theater Celebrates Leonard Tow, Founder and Chairman of The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala

Release Date:

06/12/2018

The Public's annual gala celebrated Leonard Tow, founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation. Marcia Dunn, Susan Edelstein, Kenny Leon , Wendi Rose, Josh Sapan, and Susan and Peter J. Solomon served as Gala Chairs.

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces a Series of New Artists Talks in Collaboration With Voices in Contemporary Art

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10/24/2018

The dialogues, known as the CALL / VoCA Talks, are part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) initiative, which provides resources and training for artists in the areas of studio organization, archiving, and inventory...

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