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Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College

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03/15/2016

... to the advertised price of a college education, pointing out that the availability of financial aid means that college ...

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Education

Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... in Paris in November-December 2015 was approved. Norway’ s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies for being over-reliant on fossil ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... by NYCHA, developments in homelessness, the roll- out of the mayor' s affordable housing plan and key decisions by Albany .....

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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Arcus Foundation Report Reveals Trans Discrimination Not Limited to Bathrooms

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05/13/2016

... Bathrooms With so much media focus on North Carolina‘ s anti-transgender bathroom law, LGBT advocates may be ... compared to other women. According to the report, three out of four transgender women who took...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... proclaim their desire for social change, but few, it turns out , follow through. Instead, according to research by the ...

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

F.B. Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the ... fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the U. S . economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term .....

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker' s NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships "Internships," the headline in the New York Times’ s opinion section read, "Are Not a Privilege." The op-...

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Communications/Media

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

... space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from ... of the space station including the air. Based on NASA' s data, more than 200...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

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11/17/2016

... thousands of high school students in New York City’ s most underserved communities by providing paid internships, ... serves students who are either returning after dropping out or are struggling to finish...

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Education

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

... general, journalists and environmental groups in an all- out campaign to defend its image. But the oil and gas giant ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes

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01/27/2017

Rockefeller Brothers Fund' s Purpose-Driven Investment Highlighted by Forbes ... of age and now make up the largest percentage of the U. S . population - which means they are set to make up an ... amounts of...

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

... to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources Lawmakers from Hungary' s governing Fidesz party likely will submit new legislation ... Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U. S . financier George Soros...

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George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

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03/21/2017

... Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York' s Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes Some ... York," the letter reads. "We need to invest in pathways out of poverty...

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’ s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts On the wall in Mike Basher’ s office at Chester’ s Fare & Square, there’ s...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... of lots of new money flowing into the social sector. What' s a cause for concern, though, is that a tiny sliver of the population—which is already hugely powerful in U. S . society—is set to exercise even...

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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

... sixth—of all the charitable giving that happens in the U. S . But some would argue that their biggest impact comes not ... foundations receive is for the grants they make. U. S . law requires most foundations to...

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty and unlock opportunities that can ... Finance—earlier this month Citi won Euromoney’ s inaugural award for the world’ s...

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Economic Security

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Director, Kathleen Lynch, and its projects will be carried out by collaborative, cross-disciplinary teams that the ...

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Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities

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07/31/2017

... Backs Humanities The humanities are on a roll. Perhaps it' s some perverse byproduct of the Trump effect, but recent ... funders increasingly view the humanities as something that' s not simply...

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