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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

As a first-of-its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global has reached 70,000 farmers through a network of licensed community agents by connecting them to tools, finance and buyers.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation Founder Writes About Ignoring the Debt Problem

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10/24/2016

The deficit has grown sharply this year, and will keep the national debt at about 75 percent of the gross domestic product, a ratio not seen since 1950.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships

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12/02/2016

When Capital One Foundation President Carolyn Berkowitz stepped down earlier this year to pursue other opportunities, one question remained: Just what were those opportunities?

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Commonwealth Fund Contemplates Mobile Health Apps for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

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12/07/2016

... to take a role in evaluating or recommending specific products . We recently talked to Commonwealth Fund grantee ...

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Health

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Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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06/29/2016

The Broadway sensation Hamilton has been hailed not only for its outstanding performances, diverse cast and ingenious composition but also for attracting new audiences to the stage and changing how we think about American history. On June 23rd, the...

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Supported by Doris Duke, The New England Foundation for the Arts Announces Program Design Changes

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01/09/2017

The New England Foundation for the Arts announced a series of program design changes to the National Dance Project. These design changes are supported in part by a two-year renewed grant of $3,629,400 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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Arts

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

Over the past two years, Silicon Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations.

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Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

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06/14/2017

... lead to 2.6 million jobs lost and lower gross state products of $1.5 trillion over five years. That brief focused ...

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Health

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Opinion from NY Community Trust: How Arts And Culture Make New York A Place For All Of Us

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06/21/2017

... all of us. A city like ours doesn’t happen overnight. It is the result of centuries of migrations, policies, ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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How to Build a Strong Local Food System

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08/29/2017

How to Build a Strong Local Food System It goes beyond farmers' markets and CSA shares. Before we had ... with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck vegetables from...

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Food Systems

Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

Sustainable Business Model Innovation It ’s not provocative to state the importance of innovation ... business model elements delivered the most potent results. It wasn’t the game-changing products...

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/05/2017

... so far. Walmart has pledged up to $20 million in cash, products and matching donations, while Verizon has ...

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... parents and children, which means this affects all of us. It drives the economy: $14 billion in estimated productivity ... keeps people from seeking help, or from offering help. It seeks to educate New Yorkers...

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Health

How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

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09/11/2017

... of historical greenhouse gas emissions came from the products and operations of just 90 companies—mostly fossil ...

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Fund the People Toolkit

Publication date:

09/2017

Fund the People created this toolkit to provide practical guidance, promising practices, and illustrative data to help funders, nonprofits, and others to maximize investments in the nonprofit workforce. Nonprofit people are nonprofit programs. Given this reality, supporting the nonprofit workforce is an effective strategy for increasing performance, impact, and sustainability. The toolkit features six content areas to help funders and nonprofit organizations invest in the nonprofit workforce as a strategy for improving the impact and sustainability of the organizations: Case Making: making...

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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... — and a growing understanding of what’s behind it . A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in 2015, the ... year surveyed, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. It was a slight increase from the previous...

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Workforce Development

Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... more important than the eventual answers.” When it comes to new products and services, this design-based approach is ... for the intersection of desirability (do people want it ?), feasibility...

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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

An EU-funded index measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more resilient to climate change.

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