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Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

Release Date:

04/18/2017

... Prison Is The Most Unaffordable Housing ” and provided excellent input in the Q&A portion of the program. We asked ... Title V of the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act does allow state and local governments...

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Housing and Homelessness

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The David Rockefeller Fund

Philanthropy Must Shift Power to Others

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... originally in Time Magazine . ‘The most radical way to advance meaningful change is to shift economic, social and ... asset. By investing in their power, we can get them the resources they deserve, and in so...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Elizabeth Cahill Joins the Surdna Foundation as Director of Communications and Engagement

Release Date:

02/21/2020

... 24, 2020. In this role, Elizabeth is responsible for developing and overseeing the foundation’s communications strategy to advance its objectives and the work of its grantees. She will ... stories we tell are...

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Surdna Foundation

07 Mar 2011

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Workplace Flexibility

Monday, March 7, 2011 -

9:30am to 12:30pm

... for foundation administration, including human resources , finance, and operations. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ... In addition, FAN member Gail Pesyna, VP for Human Resources and Program Management at the Alfred P...

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Network Building

Vali Nasr Becomes Opinion Contributor for The New York Times

Release Date:

10/17/2013

... Herald Tribune . Dr. Nasr is dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has served on ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

United Way of New York City Releases 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standards

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12/02/2014

... released the report at a panel event held at The New School featuring key leaders from the business, foundation, ...

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Community Development

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United Way of New York City

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Dedicated to Getting Veterans Back to Work

Release Date:

04/20/2015

... assistance, mock interviews, access to job fairs and trade- school tuition. It also provides bus passes, gas cards, ...

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Veterans

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

Release Date:

09/30/2019

... serves as Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the New School for Social Research and is a Fellow of the Canadian ...

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Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Research to Prevent Blindness Was Key Supporter of Zika Study

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... model developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis that shows that the Zika ...

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

Release Date:

04/18/2017

One of the PIMCO Foundation’s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”

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Gender Justice

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PIMCO Foundation

24 Mar 2016

NYC’s Food Policy Director on Hunger, Health & Equity

Thursday, March 24, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... mission of the Office of the Director of Food Policy is to advance the City’s efforts to increase food security, ... within the OneNYC plan New York’s leadership role in developing the landmark Milan Urban...

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Panel

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Community Development

Food Systems

Public Policy

Invest in Your Brand Endowment for Exponential Returns

Release Date:

11/22/2016

... and the first woman to head The Rockefeller Foundation) to advance the case for gender equity in the workplace. Second, ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Stonewall Community Foundation

25 Apr 2019

Empathy in an Era of Social Division and Toxic Politics - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... philanthropy have in advancing empathy in our society? Resources Links to articles exploring empathy and the ...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Jerome Foundation taps respected, experienced arts leader Eleanor Savage as new president & CEO

Release Date:

04/11/2023

... communities, and personal knowledge of equity issues, will advance innovative support for early career artists and arts ... give voice and access where there is none — space and resources for Black and Brown...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

Release Date:

10/16/2015

... Foundation. The results found that within just one school year, children who did Bedtime Math improved their ... parents who chose to do Bedtime Math had gains of half a school year, narrowing the “math...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Technology

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Overdeck Family Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Zegar Family Foundation Among Leading Philanthropic Organizations to Partner and Commit Over $223M to Reducing Methane Emissions

Release Date:

10/11/2021

... emissions globally and significantly boosts philanthropic resources allocated specifically to methane reduction. ... first-ever coordinated and unified approach to funding, developing , and implementing...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Zegar Family Foundation

Ford Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies Join Governments and Private Funders to Announce Historic Pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Release Date:

11/01/2021

... who live in them,” said Lord Goldsmith, Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment. “The evidence is ... today, the funders promised “to further recognise and advance the forest and nature stewardship...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Our Demographic Destiny is Not Our Democratic Destiny

Release Date:

05/16/2017

... change is a long game that is being played at the state and local level. If all we learn from this election, is ...

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Insights

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Civic Engagement

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release Scaling Solutions toward Shifting Systems: Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change Report

Release Date:

07/22/2020

... Accelerating impact through non-monetary support; Learning more about systems change; and Empowering ... the publication Approaches for Impact, Approaches for Learning , sought to identify How and why funders...