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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

A "resilience bond", a variation on a catastrophe bond, could help cities deal more effectively with climate change-related disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’ s Struggling Newspaper of Record “If newspapers are ... a stunning development for a struggling business, that’ s pretty close to what the storied...

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Communications/Media

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington DC-based ... and marginalized may experience. Foresight Alliance' s report aims to help address...

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Workforce Development

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NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

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02/04/2016

... and the outcome was still in doubt. Eyes are trained on New Hampshire on Feb. 9 and then South Carolina on Feb. 27 ...

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

... was organized by NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation designed to address issues affecting the state’ s women and girls. . . Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on ...

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Gender Justice

Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think ...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... in the group. UIA recently received $3.85 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford ...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... experiments over the last year, it has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of Rauschenberg work much more ...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

... engineering and mathematics fields. IU is among 25 new members to join the center. Membership will include both ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

Ford’ s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington ... never know for sure what you would do in another person’ s shoes.” They pretend to listen. I will never forget ... the description offered in Baz...

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Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers

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04/04/2016

... managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to ... from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This year’ s round of grantmaking will extend...

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen institutions and ... programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide the foundation' s BUILD efforts in the...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

Surdna Foundation’ s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures When ... problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building economies, environments and communities ... and supports...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... on-demand programming for participating cities, fund new research on innovations in city government, and launch an ...

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

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09/07/2016

... have time or money for camps or enrichment activities. Now new research suggests that school districts can stave off the ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

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09/21/2016

... #Femvertising SheKnows Media, a leading women' s media company with 81 million unique visitors a month* and ... fans and followers, today announced that it will reveal new , proprietary research on #...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... of the space station including the air. Based on NASA' s data, more than 200 astronauts had already crossed the ... is launched. The microbes are now the focus of a brand new research partnership between...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic' s Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U. S . philanthropists who gave the...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Anthony Bourdain and Rockefeller Foundation Partner On Food Waste Documentary

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11/01/2016

... he takes on the issue of food waste around the world in a new documentary. "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste" will be ... Zero Point Zero Production, the team behind Bourdain' s PBS series "...

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Food Systems

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