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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... leadership in the world from blazing a path on drug policy reform to gun control,” said George Soros, Founder and ... half-million guns from circulation. He also worked on reform of Brazil’s penitentiary...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

Open Society Foundations Accepting Applications for Soros Justice Fellowships

Release Date:

10/23/2019

... outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform , spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues ... perspectives to undertake full-time criminal justice reform projects at the local,...

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk

Release Date:

07/30/2013

A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research examining resilience following Superstorm Sandy (and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) also found that about 1 in 4 Americans believe they live in an area extremely at...

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Disaster Relief

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

Release Date:

07/17/2014

... to help poor Americans connect with programs they may not know about but that could help lift them out of poverty. ...

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Volunteerism

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

Release Date:

11/03/2014

... when it went to great lengths to ensure recipients did not know the identity of their benefactor, it wants to go out ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

Release Date:

10/26/2015

... Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA Want to know more about the Ford Foundation’s new focus on ...

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Ford Foundation

Carnegie Corp. President: America’s Wealth & its Deep Decency - A Thanksgiving Reflection on Philanthropy

Release Date:

11/30/2015

... been a spate of bad news worldwide of late, I want him to know that there is good news too, especially when it comes to ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit

Release Date:

12/21/2016

... in increasingly interdisciplinary ways, and they let us know very quickly that they were interested in collaborating ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Mellon Foundation

Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

Release Date:

04/20/2017

... "There are different demographics, but for this film, I know for Zero Point Zero and The Rockefeller Foundation, we .....

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Video

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

Release Date:

06/23/2017

... much carbon-dioxide pollution is avoided as buyers want to know real environmental benefits of investments. Advisers and ...

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Environment and Climate Change

JPMorgan Launched a New Tool to Help Fill 7,500 Finance Jobs in New York City

Release Date:

07/12/2017

... jobs are open in New York City. "We want New Yorkers to know there are thousands of good-paying job opportunities in .....

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Member News

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Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... of people say ‘It’s my first time calling, I don’t know how this works,’” she said. They were trying to bail ...

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Justice Reform

Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street? Little did we know then how closely life could imitate art when the likes ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Judge Lays into Justice Department Lawyer over ‘Heartless’ DACA Decision

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... deadline. “You work for the president, and so you would know if his commitment was going forward.” The veteran ...

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Immigration

Leon Levy Foundation Supports Bird Migration Forecasts

Release Date:

04/27/2018

For the first time, new maps are using radar to forecast nighttime clouds of migratory birds and track their flights in near real-time. A potential boon to conservation efforts.