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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation-A Leader in the Growth of Community Development Financial Institutions

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04/04/2017

... $3.8 million in grant money to fund Local Initiatives Support Corporation's (LISC)- a community development ... Opportunity Centers in 21 urban areas, with additional support going to rural investment...

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Community Development

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NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening

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08/17/2017

... themselves tough questions, such as, “Can philanthropy support the transformation of society?” Now, they are looking to support transnational movement building with the launch of ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Growing Number of Companies Opt for Locally Driven Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports GlobalGiving

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09/08/2017

... and Irma, a growing number of companies are choosing to support locally driven relief and recovery efforts. ... in small and medium-sized companies that have opted to support local disaster relief efforts...

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Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

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09/22/2017

... has announced commitments totaling $220 million in support of efforts to empower women and save the lives of ... the World Bank's Global Financing Facility Trust Fund in support of the UN's Every...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for Change

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01/29/2019

... to continue to tackle gender inequality. The project will support six organizations across the globe that help with the fight for gender equality, with support from Hearst Magazines, Facebook, the Kering ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Gender Justice

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Jessica Rothkuo Joins Redlich Horowitz Foundation to Lead Family First Implementation

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04/24/2019

... as our senior program manager to lead the foundation’s support of NY counties for successful implementation of the ... with government, philanthropic and nonprofit partners to support statewide Family First...

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

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MetLife Foundation, Sesame Workshop Launch Financial Knowledge Program

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11/22/2013

PND reported that the MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop have announced a five-year, $20 million partnership to improve financial knowledge and strategies among low- and moderate-income families around the world.

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Children, Youth and Families

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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 the 17 foundations who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least five percent of their assets in clean-energy companies,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

... the same problems – poverty, disease, the environment, education reform, you name it – that have dogged our ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Impact Investing

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Open Society Foundations Announces $50 Million Gift to ACLU

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11/07/2014

... has earmarked the gift for legislative action and public education , with a goal to halve the number of Americans ...

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Justice Reform

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

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11/11/2014

Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker, shares his story in People Magazine.

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Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

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12/18/2014

... company coffers, instead of helping the poor and providing education , health care, housing, and other local services.... ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Surdna Foundation

AXA Announces the 2015 AXA Achievers

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04/21/2015

... discovery and general community outreach in areas such as education , the environment and disease prevention. Every ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Tackles Workforce Development in Baltimore

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05/28/2015

... nonprofits focused on providing workforce development and education opportunities in Baltimore. These grants are part ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... only 400,000 computer science students. It’s time our education system prioritizes the skills these jobs demand in ...

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Technology

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

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08/25/2015

... has also influenced a wide range of issues, including education , the environment, cancer research, culture, the ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

Carnegie Corporation and the Russell Sage Foundation backed the study, which was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

... had helped 109 “at-risk” kindergartners avoid special education . The investment also resulted in a $260,000 payout ...

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How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation

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11/23/2015

Kevin O'Neill, associate director, Rockefeller Foundation writes about the field of public health and what we all owe to a legion of researchers, epidemiologists, community health workers, educators and others.

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