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How Mobile Games Can Help You Identify Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation)

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03/28/2016

... and, more critically, the requisite skills people need to succeed. As a result, companies often struggle to know what to look for, and how to identify the most ... workplace...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs

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04/19/2016

... than 20 years experience challenging structural barriers to equality and creating economic opportunity and social ... Harris, who will begin work on May 18, will report to the Foundation’s President and CEO,...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Environment and Climate Change

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Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities

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05/18/2016

Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities The ... Progress Makers Fund, a $20 million grant initiative to support visionary nonprofit organizations in their efforts ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... at how four cities are using temporary public art projects to bring together local government and artists to increase ... interviews with mayors, artists and cultural leaders working together...

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Arts

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Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative

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05/18/2017

... Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $5 million grant to launch the Partnership for Healthy Cities (PHC), an ... of forty cities around the world, the initiative will work to reduce NCDs — including heart...

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Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online

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05/22/2017

... Design Guide, a handbook for cities around the world to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was first ... It covers a wide range of topics, from bike lane...

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

Rita Allen SupportedPrize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News Combating fake news and bolstering the ... the aim of a Vanderbilt research project that was selected to...

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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work. PLACES fellows ... neighborhoods and communities — and learning how to turn ideals into outcomes. PLACES Fellows: ▪ Are...

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

... by the B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation . I wanted to learn how this foundation came to support a form of reflective practice as capacity buildin ...

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The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists ... States and...

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Science

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community. In many traditional ...

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Education

Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-year low. This flies in ... the recent hurricanes, but unemployment dropped yet again, to just 4.2 percent from 4...

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Workforce Development

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... at a University of Houston venue. The team members needed to see their hard work realized, says Nancy Giles, the ... Alley’s director of development. "Theater people have to make theater, artists have...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

Release Date:

10/30/2017

... Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy Ater Superstorm Sandy, ... for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with plans for projects...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

Release Date:

11/17/2017

... Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for vulnerable populations. To accelerate the development and scale of forward thinking ... Hillman Foundation (RAHF...

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Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

... comparative performance of healthcare providers often fail to deliver information that consumers actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety

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01/05/2018

... and Safety The real work for city leaders today is to create not just new rules, but new ways of writing and ... in the U.S. and elsewhere are torn when it comes to innovation. On the one hand, constituents...

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Community Development

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North Star Fund Announces 9 Catalyst Grants

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01/16/2018

... a cross-section of the work that New Yorkers are doing to realize the true potential of our city as a place where ... built by New Yorkers who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city...

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