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Leadership Changes Announced at Gap Foundation and Gap, Inc.

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05/15/2015

... oversee the following Gap Inc. functions: Global Human Resources ; Corporate Affairs; Gap Foundation; and Global ...

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Supported by Rockefeller and Bloomberg, Climate Finance Project Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth

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07/26/2016

... Finds Solutions for Low-Carbon Growth 2016 is a hot year for climate finance. Following the Paris Agreement in ... have committed to mobilizing $100 billion (PDF) a year by 2025. Keeping this pledge to the...

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Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented

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08/31/2017

... plan and the LIRR saw its best on-time performance of the year during these months – standards of service they must uphold year -round,” Cuomo said. “This was a potential crisis and ... who got it done and...

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Crain's New York Profiles Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah

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05/15/2018

... U.S. efforts. Ten programs were closed to concentrate on five : food, health, power, resilience and U.S. job growth. ...

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Native American Youth Can't Wait

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08/22/2016

... — have equal access to quality education and health care and the opportunity to grow up in safe and thriving ... and a half times the national average. Native youth are five times more likely to end up in the...

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Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Ploughshares Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In March, RBF gave Ploughshares a one- year $500,000 grant specifically for its Iran...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from Earth has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... or on paleontological records will not be considered this year . Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are ... in a U.S. or Canadian institution for at least one year and no more than eight years...

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RFPs Etc

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The Will and The Way: Philanthropy's Grantmaking Defaults Must Change

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02/05/2020

... the proportion of cost-minus funding goes up. From this perspective , scaling makes it harder to cover full costs. At ... higher spending. (For example, a foundation moving from a five -percent spending rate to...

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New Tech, Renewed Trust and a Less Lunatic Political Process

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10/12/2012

... by public policy decisions on transportation, health care , immigration and every imaginable issue. As Chris ... responsive and engaging. Again, the public-spirited among us face a roadblock—imposing structural...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

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01/23/2017

... Sandy Design Competition , which was pioneered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in partnership ... while continued sea-level rise is threatening coastal resources . These are real and...

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A Critical Catalyst: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy

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01/30/2013

... as critical, complex evacuations from hospitals and health care facilities. Key questions include: who should be ... impact of events like Hurricane Sandy. And we must act now, since the reality is that...

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Target Gives $1 Billion for Education

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08/31/2015

At the end of August 2015, Target reached its goal to give $1 billion to education in the United States and around the world.

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Heron Foundation to Emphasize 'Connective Investing'

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03/10/2017

... Foundation will emphasize “connective investing” in US communities, providing financial and other forms of ...

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Three Ways to Maximize Impact Through Collaboration

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01/26/2015

... any funder’s strategy, time constraints, and financial resources . Over the last 10 years, Arabella has helped ... the potential benefits of learning together. Over the past year , Arabella convened a small...

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If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let's Start in Our Back Yard

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04/14/2021

... GoVoteNYC, and Maria Torres-Springer, Vice President, US Programs, Ford Foundation and Co-Chair, GoVoteNYC As New ... first time. Perhaps these numbers should not surprise us , considering the daunting...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are ... that increase feelings of happiness, even if the generous act is small or only imagined...

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New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law

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10/05/2017

... the new federal education law. The Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, requires states to count only “standard” ...

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Despite Gridlock In Washington, Funders See Enormous Potential to Move the Needle on America’s Gun Crisis

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11/15/2016

... than 100,000 Americans killed or injured by guns every year . Notwithstanding overwhelming popular support for ... do to get involved. Media Impact Funders: Could you give us a short overview of the Joyce...

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