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Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

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08/31/2017

... If you've put off starting a family, you're not alone. In the U.S., the average age a woman gives birth to her first ... dads are getting older, too. In 1972, the average age of...

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting Scores of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United...

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Off-Broadway’s Golden Age Faces Financial Hurdles

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09/12/2017

... artists who try to make their living off-Broadway in New York City say this is a golden age for their small-scale brand of theater. But that doesn’t mean they are reaping ... seats, according to the Off-...

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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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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... a barrier success. "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of opportunity," Buffett said Tuesday at the national Purpose...

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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, ... far promise a healthy fight. The project developer, Rabsky...

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Community Development

Open Society Foundations Funds the Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico

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03/02/2018

... Mayor Exchange to Offer Help to Puerto Rico A new network of local leaders is stepping in to provide aid and support from cities on the mainland to ... backed by funding from the Open Society Foundations, the...

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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 ... bleaching, which spread across the Great Barrier Reef in...

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

... Society, which gave $3.6 million to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week ... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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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 ... by scientists from the University of Chicago...

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25 Jul 2023

Navigating the Complexities of Corporate Reporting with an Equity Lens

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3:00pm to 4:30pm

The rise of ESG and the SEC's impending climate disclosure ... on companies to meet specific reporting requirements. In addition, employees, communities and customers are ... Social Impact, and Sustainability...

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MetLife Foundation, Sesame Workshop Launch Financial Knowledge Program

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11/22/2013

... moderate-income families around the world. Awarded as part of the foundation’s five-year, $200 million commitment to ... multimedia programs that reach nearly 75 million people in up to ten countries. To be...

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17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks

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01/30/2014

The Educational Foundation of America and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation are among ... who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least five percent of...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

F.B. Heron Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation discussed in Forbes article on impact investing. I’ve been privileged ... to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning...

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From Poverty to Giving Away Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream

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11/11/2014

... Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream Born in a Louisiana charity hospital, Darren Walker grew up in a poor town in rural Texas with his single mother and three sisters. But ...

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War"

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02/12/2015

... Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War" The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans ... the Bob Woodruff Foundation today announced an expansion of their partnership to provide...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... to support its leading biology and genetics research and education programs. The uniquely structured grant reflects a ... and innovative organizations that are catalyzing change in their respective industries...

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2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Awarded to Those Who Dedicate Private Wealth to the Public Good

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08/25/2015

2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Awarded to Those Who Dedicate Private Wealth ... Among the most charitable and visionary philanthropists in America, the recipients embody the spirit of giving...

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Ms. Foundation Helps Film Lab Fight Elder Abuse Through Film

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09/09/2015

... competitions, educational outreach to support diversity in media and its production arm featuring diverse ... combat elder abuse. The film, titled “The Opposite of a Fairy Tale,” addresses elder abuse through...

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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman It was, in the vernacular of corporate America, a win-win: a bond that paid for ... had helped 109 “at-risk” kindergartners avoid...

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