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Susan G. Komen Names Dr. Judith Salerno as President and Chief Executive Officer

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07/01/2013

... would move from the CEO position to a new role focused on global mission and development. Brinker’s new title is Founder and Chair of Global Strategy. “Judy is an excellent choice. She is very ...

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Ford Foundation Announces Three New Concentration Areas

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01/18/2018

... has guided our grand experiment in self-determination and global leadership. In our Constitution’s preamble, the ... still, we see justice’s uneven march forward all around us . I see it—and feel it—in the...

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24 Apr 2025

Considering the Future: Blending Fiction and Reality

Thursday, April 24, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... and reality, pragmatism and visionary utopianism. Join us for a dynamic and timely event, blending imaginative ... for Philanthropy and Fundraising at NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs Rockefeller Brothers Fund...

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Taking a Stand for New York

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04/12/2018

... to today. The current political moment has forced most of us off the sidelines and into the advocacy arena. There ... only if there is an opportunity to share information and resources on how to implement...

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Inside the Joan Mitchell Foundation: How a Visual Arts Funder Is Evolving

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11/08/2018

... by the Urban Institute in 2003, Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structures for U.S. Artists. This study looked specifically at the needs of individual artists ...

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21 May 2019

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Lead data of over 4,000 staff in the nonprofit sector. The study reveals the systemic barriers women of color face as ... and the continued challenges once they get there. Join us for a presentation...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The Century Foundation Releases Report: How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages

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10/17/2019

Much has been written about the rise of robots and the potential impacts of automation on the economy. Yet most analysis tends to be prospective in nature, and estimates of future impacts on employment vary widely, with some studies predicting that...

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Resilience Begins at Home

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07/30/2013

Rockefeller Foundation Vice President of Global Communications Neill Coleman discusses the findings of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Contributes Funds for Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing Activity Worldwide

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09/15/2016

... SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that ... vessels in near real-time. By providing the first free global view of commercial fishing...

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Hartford Foundation Funds New Geriatric Workforce Center

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01/21/2016

... component of the GWEP platform administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. ... opportunities, mentoring, a centralized repository of resources for professional and...

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New STARS Community, Funded by Josiah Macy Foundation, Will Focus Wise Choices And Value in Health Care

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09/21/2017

... a dynamic community of future leaders with training and resources to improve health care in America." By tracking ... physicians about their professional roles as stewards of resources in service to...

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María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

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05/15/2014

The Open Society Foundations today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism.

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... of the United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served on the board of ...

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

Energy company wants to drill natural-gas well using waterless method.

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Environment and Climate Change

Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

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11/10/2016

... code stashed in a vault. However, the tightly controlled borders of the nucleus create a challenge: In order for the ...

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'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs

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10/02/2017

Just before Ramadan in late spring 2017, the full might of the Turkish state descended on a foreign aid agency in the border town of Gaziantep. Six different government agencies, among them the migration directorate and the gendarmerie, had come to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and African-American ...

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Community Development

The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation

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01/05/2018

Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and human & disability rights advocate Judy Heumann investigates how our grantmakers are including a disability lens in their areas of work.

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Edwin Gould Foundation and the Education Writers Association Announced the Winner of the Eddie Award

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06/19/2018

... which are college access programs, the New York outpost of Global Glimpse, which sends students from low-income and affluent backgrounds on summer study programs in Central American together, BEAM, which ...