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Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

Release Date:

04/04/2016

... Fossil Fuel Investments One by one, the descendants of John D Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil baron, are ... the fossil fuels that made the family rich. On the heels of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2014,...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs

Release Date:

04/19/2016

... Cummings Foundation Selects Loren Harris as Vice President of Programs The Nathan Cummings Foundation announced that ... inclusion, will join the Foundation as Vice President of Programs. Harris, who will...

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Environment & Sustainability

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

Release Date:

05/31/2016

... Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance In its annual survey of high net worth business owners, U.S. Trust found that ... but most entrepreneurs wouldn’t consider any other...

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Bank of America Private Bank

F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact

Release Date:

06/10/2016

... out on Heron’s current journey, we did so with the idea of building incentives into our own operating model that ... As noted above, we realized that the strict segregation of “giving grants” (program side)...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

Release Date:

07/08/2016

... "Are Not a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation, and it discussed what he called ... unpaid internships, because I am, improbably, a member of "the media," and...

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Ford Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

Release Date:

08/22/2016

... the case that the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the Syrian state has sent wave after wave of chaos into the wider world — spawning a new generation of terrorists and warlords and...

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International/Global Affairs

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/06/2016

... Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois. Guan and his colleagues conducted a research ...

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

Release Date:

09/07/2016

... at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. As part of the program created around the Prize, winners will be ... audiences. Applicants must have between 2 to 8 years of experience running their own...

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RFPs Etc

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Pershing Square Foundation

Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... report, Raising Our Nation , highlights the true cost of the impact that a lack of access child care has on working mothers, especially low-income women of color. With ...

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Women & Girls

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Ms. Foundation for Women

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

Release Date:

09/19/2016

... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with mayors, artists and cultural leaders working together to develop risk-taking public art...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

... Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... learned? Considering these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing ... investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information. Findings in the report are based ...

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Report

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... violence-free neighborhoods. Three years after the launch of...

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors

Release Date:

10/17/2016

... Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the election of Nicole Gueron, co-founder of the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP...

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Brooklyn Org

Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... on items they've viewed or bought. So why aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to improve ... the capacity to do so. Nearly half pointed to a shortage of staff and financial...

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

Release Date:

10/31/2016

NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member With a compelling personal narrative and a track record of helping the needy, Darren Walker, the president of ... Would Mr. Walker’s...

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Ford Foundation

After the Election, Building the Beloved Community

Release Date:

11/23/2016

... Building the Beloved Community by Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. Re-posted with permission from the ... has begun, but the contemplations and reverberations of election week are still very...

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Insights

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

Release Date:

01/10/2017

... project will, among other things, help establish a state- of -the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center ... than $44 million raised through a Christie’s auction of about half of...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

Release Date:

01/10/2017

... service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most civically minded undergraduates. The award marks the completion of Atlantic's grant-making, totaling $8 billion over 35...

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

Release Date:

01/31/2017

... to Treat Asthma Angel's Story looks at the early success of a home-visit program at Northwest Assistance Ministries ... (EHF). The program searches for the non-medical causes of children's chronic...

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Video

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Health & Human Services

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Episcopal Health Foundation

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

Release Date:

02/08/2017

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from ... for her hard work. Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential...

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Video

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Education & Youth

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Prudential Foundation

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