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A Commitment to Deep Change in 2025 - Launching a Philanthropic Toolkit for Transformational Systems Change

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12/13/2024

... stands at a pivotal crossroads. As custodians of resources and influence, the call to action is clear: to move ... with grace and relational care. The journey begins now . Will you step forward with us? —...

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38th Annual Meeting Recap: The Power of Participation

... Meeting, "The Power of Participation: Democracy Building Now ." The programmatic elements of the 38th Annual Meeting ... that is exactly what is needed in politics right now - those skills." She...

OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... since 1994, double what most people had estimated until now . Worth an estimated $24 billion, Soros has funneled ... pound in 1992, into his Open Society Foundations. It’s now a philanthropic powerhouse that...

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NoVo Co-President Peter Buffett Uses New Notoriety to Champion Women and Girls Around the World

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10/10/2014

... that he planned to give away the bulk of his fortune — now estimated at $67 billion — including a billion to each ... charities. Peter and his wife, Jennifer, run the now $3 billion NoVo Foundation, dedicated...

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Gender Justice

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... to publicly share their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles. The ... taken just 6 more to double its holdings. Researchers now submit around 8,000 articles to the arXiv...

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Rebuild By Design Joins Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities Initiative

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10/01/2015

... Resilient Cities Initiative 100 Resilient Cities will now leverage Rebuild by Design’s successful rebuilding, ... of 100 Resilient Cities, the Rebuild by Design effort will now impact cities around the globe...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

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12/12/2016

... the self-proclaimed Islamic State and other jihadists now inside Syria—have been obviously impossible for some time now , at least in their most optimistic formulation and using ...

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

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02/01/2017

... world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing ... refugees themselves.” That's some serious money. And now we're starting to get a...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now , in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they ... pharmaceutical formulations. Penn alumnus Zoey Davidson, now a postdoc at the Max Planck...

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To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

... in large cities, where over half of the world's population now lives. As Bloomberg now gives new attention to non-communicable diseases in .....

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Trump Plans to Phase Out DACA, Administration Officials Say

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09/05/2017

... processed. Anyone who has a DACA permit expiring between now and March 5, 2018, can apply for a two-year renewal. That ... 5. Some Dreamers, those with permits that expire between now and March 5, will be...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... the audience, didn’t die of the lifestyle diseases we do now , but of simple injuries that led to infections. ... plan in 2015. It’s also common enough that many parents now think twice before using antibiotics...

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

... from deportation and save DACA, the fate of which is now in the hands of Congress? DACA, the Deferred Action for ... where the largest number of DACA recipients live. Now , in the wake of the Trump...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... no time for school. In another family, a teenage son has now been out of school too long to be allowed back. He lives ... 1 in 4 persons of the country’s 4.4 million is now a refugee. . . Applying Social...

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U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories

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09/28/2017

... an individual going through the immigration system. Until now , A-Files could be kept in either paper or electronic form. Now , the rule says, these records can be kept on paper, ...

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now , Americans born in 1960 will be able to start collecting ... Security retirement age, pushing it higher for people now in their 50s and below in order...

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

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