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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Release Date:

01/06/2017

... different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco ... activities to grow their market share in vulnerable developing countries. And...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced a three-year, $3.77 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the work of the National Theater Project.

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

Financial giants, in addition to supporting urban youth and employment, are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and housing.

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Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

Release Date:

06/08/2017

... women CEOs. Fifty-one percent of executive respondents say developing women leaders is important because "greater gender .....

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Gender Justice

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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

Senior representatives from 19 international agencies gathered this spring in Italy, hosted by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. They came together to brainstorm how to halve death and...

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Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President

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09/05/2017

After hearing from “thousands of community voices” on the redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams released his recommendations for the embattled project.

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask for grant applications. ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.

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7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and wide-ranging weeks on the global development calendar.

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International/Foreign Affairs

A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

Officials tried to relocate auto mechanics from Queens to the Bronx to make way for a splashy new Willets Point real-estate project. What went wrong?

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Community Development

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

Research supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies finds that patients with an inherited form of colon cancer harbor two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage development of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who...

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Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss

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06/21/2018

Food that ‘disappears' from the food chain after harvest owing to spoilage could feed an estimated 48 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. A project by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation...