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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... NGOs or social entrepreneurs should do. But this week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see what they can do to accelerate the scale of solutions to critical problems...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of opportunity," Buffett said Tuesday at the national Purpose ... in Omaha. Buffett supports the Atlanta-based nonprofit group that helps communities...

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

... ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and ... far promise a healthy fight. The project developer, Rabsky...

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Community Development

SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

... York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers A state group that oversees some New York charter schools has revised ... to let its schools certify their own teachers ahead of Wednesday’s vote, according to...

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Education

House Gives Approval to $36.5 Billion Disaster Aid Package

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10/13/2017

... to help states and U.S. territories rebuild in the wake of devastating hurricanes and wildfires. The House passed the ...

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Community Development

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Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

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03/27/2018

... Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching A group of scientists developed a "sun shield" that they hope can ... was also designed to explore new ways to reduce the impact of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex story about how a multibillion dollar ... democratic freedom is responding to a rising tide of forces that stand opposed to those same...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color

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10/26/2018

... Color Heliconius butterflies are a diverse and colorful group of species that live throughout tropical regions of Central and South America. Many of them have wing patterns...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

... to an AIDS United press release. The grants are part of the AIDS United Southern REACH (Regional Expansion of Access and Capacity to Address HIV/AIDS), which is marking ...

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Health

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Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

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09/10/2015

... Programs The Surdna Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry from nonprofit organizations for programs that connect and improve the infrastructure systems of urban areas and their surrounding areas in ways...

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Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit

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12/08/2015

Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently distributed nearly ... have access to basic needs and services. Six teams of...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

... and organizations develop plans to increase local control of their local food systems in order to better address ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Food Systems

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Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities

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11/01/2016

Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities A key goal of NYSHealth’s building healthy communities priority ... create healthy communities that lead to more New Yorkers of...

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RFPs Etc

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Health

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Campuses Confront Hostile Acts Against Minorities After Donald Trump’s Election

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11/11/2016

... sensitivity toward cultural differences, the distribution of the Texas State fliers was just one of several episodes this week suggesting that the surprise ... more generalized fears about the country’s future...

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Education

United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... and home care organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring Long Island, Westchester, ... the Fund has presented Distinguished Trustee Awards. All of the trustees were nominated...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... the 1990s, Afghan women saw fairly steady progress. Some of that progress resumed after the U.S. ousted the Taliban in 2001, ending a harsh period of subjugation for Afghan women. Yet with the Taliban again...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its ... is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

... like common sense, the study found that only 37 percent of charities surveyed follow a major-donor identification system consistently. Three out of four of those organizations said they meet...

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Nonprofit Linked To NYCHA Creates Crowdfunding Portal For Sustainability Projects

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09/25/2017

... explained Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, the founding president of the Fund for Public Housing, in an interview with Gotham ...

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