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America’s museums are more than repositories of ancient Greek statues and Renaissance paintings. They are guardians of a fading social and demographic order. On Thursday, Warren Kanders resigned from the board of the Whitney Museum of Art, after...

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop "...

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Shareholder Activism: Changing Corporate Behavior

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... they might decrease the value of your company? Most foundations would probably answer yes to these questions. But while foundations give away billions of dollars to address social ... Through the holdings in...

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

... alongside corporate grant makers. As part of that effort, foundations and charities are also stepping up efforts to ...

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment (PRI) revolving fund to support its mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United States.

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Perpetuity, continued

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04/24/2014

... as The Case for Perpetuity on the rationale for perpetual foundations , one member of the audience taking careful notes ... practice on its head. These days, it’s the time-limited foundations that seem...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

The New York Public Library has won $500,000 for an internet access project from the Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

Atlantic Philanthropies only has two years to spend its remaining assets.

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Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is asking the Florida state Supreme Court to take up a dispute about $24.6 million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after he died in 2008.

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JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

The Aspen Institute today launched an ambitious, first-of-its-kind project to shine light on economic forces that severely impact the financial security of American families.

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

Research initiative to address urgent needs in understanding and treating low vision.

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

As a first-of-its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global has reached 70,000 farmers through a network of licensed community agents by connecting them to tools, finance and buyers.

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Queens Theatre is launching its Winter/Spring 2017 Season with a diverse array of presentations, including the acclaimed Dance Company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers and a new Queens Theatre production of the...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

Laurie Tisch, whose Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund is gearing up for its tenth anniversary and will have given $100 million to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year's end, describes philanthropy as something that's in her DNA.

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years to strengthen women’s groups worldwide, Ms. Gates said Wednesday during an event in New York.

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Closing Space for Open Society

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05/17/2018

The operating environment has gotten so ugly for Open Society, which gave $3.6 million to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week they will relocate their office from Budapest, Soros’ birth city, to Berlin.

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Ralph Wilson's Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails

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10/17/2018

On what would have been Ralph Wilson's 100th birthday, his foundation will announce the largest philanthropic gift ever made in Western New York.

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