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New York Magazine Profile, "The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers"

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01/08/2018

... increasing speed, toward environmental disaster. Climate change wasn’t directly the Rockefellers’ fault, of ... this past November arguing that the Rockefellers were funding a conspiracy against it. Judge...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints New Managing Directors

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02/01/2012

... financial sustainability, working on acid rain, climate change , and transportation systems, as well as on ways to ... expanding it.” Dr. Kete spent eight years at the World Resources Institute (WRI) as...

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Nature and NYC Communities Can Thrive Together Through These 5 Goals

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04/19/2018

... natural habitats, the Natural Areas Conservancy is helping change the paradigm. That is why the funders that support ... NYC2050 coalition’s capacity. The coalition needs more resources to ensure regular...

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Laureus USA Releases New Research Study: Youth Sports Promote Social & Emotional Learning, Especially Among Men of Color

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02/03/2021

... young people have opportunities to play and that costs do not exclude youth from lower income families from ... white. However, young men of color in SBYD programs do not have significantly different scores...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Urban Institute and JP Morgan Release Issue Brief on Workforce Programs

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12/16/2015

... match workers with jobs and provide training. One notable change from the preceding Workforce Innovation Act is that ... making employers a part of public workforce programs is not a new idea, there is...

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The New York Community Trust

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Workforce Development

The New York Life Foundation provides a $2m boost for students attending two prominent Historically Black Universities.

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06/02/2022

... who are unable to complete their degrees due to gaps in funding including the death of a caregiver. Heather Nesle , ... support for school communities. Our intention with this funding is to create brighter...

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U.S. Trust Study Finds that Wealthy Individuals Give and Volunteer at Higher Rates

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10/28/2016

... percent of high-net-worth households donated to charity last year and 50 percent volunteered, compared to 59 percent of the U.S. general population who donated to charity and 25 percent who volunteered...

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Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

By Abigail Westbrook, Special Assistant to the Founder and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies With our U.S. offices located in New York City, Hurricane Sandy hit close to home. It impacted our New York-based...

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Supported By Many PNY Members, 2016 Creative Capital Awards Given In Literature, Performing Arts

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01/13/2016

... Creative Capital has announced its 2016 awardees, funding 46 projects selected from a nationwide pool of 2,500 ... funded project will receive up to 50,000 USD in direct funding and additional ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Arts

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Novo Foundation's Push For Bottom-Up Power

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06/26/2018

... combination of radical sensibilities and major financial resources . Fueled by steady infusions of Berkshire Hathaway ... seeking to elevate leaders in the communities to which funding is flowing. “While...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Selects Genaro Lopez-Rendon as Next President

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12/08/2015

... Noyes Foundation’s giving and programs.” "We could not be more delighted than to have Genaro join Noyes as our ... building gives him a powerful vision and voice for change . Genaro is the right person at...

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29 May 2025

Moving From Exhaustion to Sustainability: Promoting Cultures of Wellbeing for Social Impact Leaders

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10:00am to 12:00pm

... insights into what senior leaders in the field need to not just survive, but thrive in their roles. Join us on ... for foundation administration, including human resources and operations. What to expect:...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Intensifies Efforts to Protect the World’s Ocean

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09/21/2022

... that are at risk from the growing impacts of climate change . Today’s commitment builds on Bloomberg’s efforts to fight climate change and aims to spur meaningful ocean action 45 days ahead ... Ocean Initiative...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Imagine, Involve, Implement: A GEO Action Guide

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01/2008

... on phase 2 of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Change Agent project describing how a diverse assortment of .....

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Wallace Foundation Supported Research Finds 'Principal Pipelines' to Develop School Leaders May Be Affordable Way to Improve Schools

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06/22/2017

... there has been little information about what level of resources would be required to do so. RAND's report fills ... - activities that most districts are already doing, just not in a strategic way."...

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Johnson Family Foundation Welcomes Dylan Hoos as the New Executive Director

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01/04/2023

... Alliance, Lambda Legal, the North Star Fund, PENCIL, the Funding Exchange , Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and the Stonewall ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Focuses on How to Prevent Food Waste at Events

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04/03/2018

... at Events Even when wowing attendees, squandering food is not cool We’ve all been there. A lunch buffet has just been ... led by Anthony Bourdain, participated in Wasted! The Story of Food Waste , a feature-...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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UCLA to Establish Archive on Policing and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles with Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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01/28/2021

... meaningful effort to tell a more detailed and complete story about policing and race, and make the findings and ...

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Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

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09/17/2014

... present, and future of a business’ performance—is not a new or original idea, but has fallen out of favor as an ... The danger for us in thinking about Heron’s financial resources as “assets” is that we stay...

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