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Changing Corporate Behavior through Shareholder Activism

Publication date:

09/2010

This new white paper outlines the theories underpinning the Nathan Cummings Foundation's shareholder activities work and reports on the numerous concrete changes in corporate behavior that NCF has helped to promote through its shareholder activism.

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Ford Foundation Launches 'Art of Change' Fellowship Program

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04/10/2015

Ford Foundation Launches 'Art of Change ' Fellowship Program Over the next twelve months, ... advance the arts — and, by extension, drive social change . As part of the initiative, the foundation has...

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Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

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07/22/2014

Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change " Two individuals with organizations supported by ... were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of Change " for their efforts to...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Surdna Foundation

GroundTruth Announces $1 Million Project on Climate Change

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08/18/2015

GroundTruth Announces $1 Million Project on Climate Change GroundTruth, which trains and supports the next ... ideas that will help shape GroundTruth's future climate change coverage. The four-week...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

New report from Carnegie shows today's volume of immigrants. Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change

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08/28/2017

Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change The one bright spot amid the generally gloomy news about climate change , and the Trump administration’s resistance to doing ... . . Editorial: States Dare to...

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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change

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09/21/2017

States Team Up To Fight Climate Change A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. ... U.S. pledged to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change , along with other countries around the globe. Mr. .....

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Ford Foundation Launches Arts in a Changing America With Webcast

Release Date:

10/23/2015

... in cultural terms, of the demographic shift? What is not on the institutional arts sector's radar? How do we learn .....

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Arts

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Jerome Foundation

Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change Exxon Mobil, under fire over its past efforts to ... scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change , is trying to turn the tables by...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

Release Date:

07/06/2017

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies "Wayne Tracker" cannot be forced to testify under oath. He does not exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, .....

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Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows

Release Date:

10/14/2013

Advocacy groups are pushing for changes in New York policy to attack what they say is a rising tide of hunger among the working poor, children and the elderly while combating obesity and boosting farming.

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Food Systems

Inside the Proposed Changes to the Landmarked Ford Foundation

Release Date:

04/19/2016

... his brass-stemmed walnut tables—it is health and safety, not aesthetics or technology, that initially drove the ...

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Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?

Release Date:

08/28/2017

Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey? Every so often, the ... total on Houston and the surrounding area. . . Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey? ...

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

Release Date:

03/13/2014

... John A. Hartford Foundation is seeking feedback on their Change AGEnts Initiative. When I was first hired at the John ... and incorporate what is helpful…. Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens ...

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Aging

President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

Release Date:

12/17/2014

Ford, Carnegie and OSF among funders to assist immigrants eligible for temporary legal status.

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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change “ Trump Using Detroit as Stage for Loosening ... commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement” on climate change . In fact, thanks to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal .....

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09 May 2019

Newsrooms & Philanthropy: Is There a Shared Playbook for Impact and Social Change?

Thursday, May 9, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... around specific topics and help spark real-world change . Explore The ways funders are investing in journalism ... gaps, gain a larger share of a voice, and create social change Tensions that may rise between...

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15 Jul 2021

Good Green Jobs for a Changing Climate: Is This Time For Real?

Thursday, July 15, 2021 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... generations from the worst impacts of human-caused climate change , which is already destroying lives and livelihoods ... communities (those most impacted by human-caused climate change ) will be unjust, leaving...

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Workforce Development

Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

Release Date:

09/08/2014

Students and teachers are always being evaluated, but the principals that lead them should also be scrutinized. The Wallace Foundation has earmarked $75 million to create programs to recruit and train stronger principals.

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