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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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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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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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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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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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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... from entire neighborhoods and their schools... Check out the recently published report here . Century Foundation ...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

Rockefeller Foundation’ s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’ s WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership ... link in the food...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized criminal justice system. Plenty of ... turn of events that that the board feared she’d walk out the door and into Manhattan traffic...

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Justice Reform

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious ... personality, crazy life story, and his and wife Marilyn’ s game-changing giving. But his...

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