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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

Release Date:

11/11/2014

... think that U.S. foundations and philanthropists would be investing heavily in work that aims to ensure the best ... in some way over the past decade. But funders are not investing as heavily in China as you...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

Together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the $30 million project will redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ

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Food Systems

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Prudential Foundation

Goldman Sachs

JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment

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03/18/2015

The foundations have joined the $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund.

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Health

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Pfizer

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

The foundation will have awarded $22 million among 80 Doris Duke Artists since the awards program’s inception.

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access? Investing in clean energy access provides a disruptive ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

A new study shows that less than one percent of federal funding goes to risk research.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... of work: 'Quality Work and Economic Security' and 'Impact Investing .' As director, he will advance Ford's work in .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move meant to bolster the fight against climate change.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

Release Date:

02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Immigration

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing . Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

The clock is ticking. Community Boards 4, 5 and 7 have until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure...

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Community Development

Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful ...

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Health

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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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12/12/2017

Last week, the fund launched Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build progressive political power in states of critical electoral importance.'

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Propel Capital

Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

Release Date:

02/21/2018

The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to...

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

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03/16/2018

Open Society Foundations, in partnership with a group of other philanthropy organizations, funded a Cleveland State University report, Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans, which highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Ohio'...

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

Release Date:

11/29/2018

... Count, the latest effort led by the foundation, is investing in research to hear directly from teens about what ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

Release Date:

02/21/2019

... and asset classes, Van Fleet’s broad knowledge of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High ...

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Education

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SIFMA Foundation

UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new endowment dollars for participating Jewish day schools and yeshivot in New York.