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Stephanie Bencivenga Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/01/2013

Stephanie Bencivenga is the Program Assistant for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Sustainable Development program. Prior to joining the RBF, Bencivenga worked in sustainability communications, where she helped develop environmental messaging...

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Kiva City Launches in Washington, D.C.

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01/11/2013

Kiva, the Latino Economic Development Center and Capital One Bank have announced the launch of Kiva City D.C., a website that will provide small business owners in the greater Washington, D.C., area with access to crowdfunded microloans.

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Liza Sutherland Joins Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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01/15/2014

Liza Sutherland has joined the staff of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where she works with the Donor Services Team and engages with a range of family foundations, corporate clients and individual donors.

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

[Rockefeller Foundation] Study Predicts Building in East River Could Pay for Itself and Then Some

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Environment and Climate Change

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, Sigma Theta Tau International Partner on New Global Health Initiatives

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05/29/2014

The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare (Jonas Center) today announced a partnership with the preeminent nursing honor society, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), to co-fund doctoral nursing students and establish new educational...

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

The $1.8 million grant will help Opportunity International provide services to 4200 small businesses.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

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10/05/2015

... Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, for his work in developing highly innovative programs that are transforming ... has made it possible for smallholders in Rwanda and other developing African countries to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

... Development Corporation, a local nonprofit, is considering developing a mixed-use complex with 100 affordable housing ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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NoVo Foundation to Support Food Sovereignty Assessments in Native American Communities

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06/23/2016

First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced it has received a $480,000 grant from the NoVo Foundation.

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Food Systems

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

The grant maker's plans includes helping finance efforts to develop renewable-energy technogies, deliver clean electricity to rural India, and create insurance products for extreme-weather events in Africa.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series Continues

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02/10/2017

How Do Early Life Experiences Shape Behavior? was presented by Frances Champagne, PhD highlighted the brain’s plasticity and the effects of the environment on the brain’s development through epigenetic variation.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

Rajiv Shah, the new president of the Rockefeller Foundation, is no stranger to politics or philanthropy.

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Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism

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05/25/2017

A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric...

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment Wednesday.

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Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

Public housing was once the egalitarian dream of urban planners in post-war New York City, uniting people from all walks of life in a social experiment that prospered. Today, these developments are under attack from systematic neglect and deliberate...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... be used to bolster grass-roots women’s campaigns in the developing world. While the money is a tiny slice of the ...

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

For years, political rivalries, ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and African-American communities.

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Community Development

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017

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11/28/2017

... leadership development (for the executive director and a developing leader in the organization), a network of peer ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Community Development

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

Wabash College has received an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve retention and graduation rates for all students with special emphasis on students from particular populations that have been historically disadvantaged in...

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