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Rockefeller Playhouse and Family Properties Gifted to the National Trust for Historic Preservation

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07/31/2018

... and public programs of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund that have local, national, and global impact . More than 32,000 visitors—many of them area ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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The Rockefeller Foundation and CrossBoundary Launch Mini-Grid Innovation Lab in Nairobi, Kenya

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04/24/2018

... solutions for minigrids based in Africa so that they can provide more power , to more people, at a lower cost. ... in connecting 600-million people in Africa who do not have access to power . “We’re launching...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations

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03/31/2016

... serve financially fragile populations. “Credit unions can play a more active role in improving the financial lives ... for scalability. “We’re testing products that not only have the potential for life-...

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... were in late 2016, according to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report. At the same time, employers continue to search ... Colleagues working together to accomplish a shared goal can have a...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The Century Foundation Releases Report on Achieving Financial Equity and Justice for HBCU's

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09/14/2021

... do not know much about these illustrious institutions, how their existence has countered the narrative of White ... for a historic investment that will bring unprecedented resources to HBCUs, giving them the...

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: One Student’s Story

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12/06/2012

... ignored, neglected and disillusioned, undocumented youth have finally been given a chance to not be as helpless as we ... wonderful Bronx High School of Science for two years. I can honestly say that while...

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Commentary: “Visibility” and Corporate Foundations

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10/22/2009

... discussions about issues in philanthropy. Those issues can be sensitive or volatile. While we want to encourage a ... foundation world translates to “media hits” and how many times the name of the foundation (...

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New York Life Foundation and Afterschool Alliance Launch Aim High Grant Competition

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01/18/2017

... made to organizations with annual budgets of $500,000 or greater $50,000 over two years: four awards to be made to ... Applicants for the two–year grants will need to describe how programs support youth in the...

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Education

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... to be an unmet demand for more talking politics, as both funders and grantees reassess what it takes to be effective ... program officer had been in communication with them about how the changing political...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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For CEIP, Don’t Call It a Comeback

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12/17/2015

... change on Philanthropy New York’s website, you may not have noticed that this month the Increasing Diversity in ... and in practice. To achieve this, the board dedicated new resources and appointed new co-...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Awards $1 Million Grant to The Financial Clinic to Build Financial Security for Working Poor Americans

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11/19/2015

... and improve workforce outcomes for jobseekers in the greater New York City area via the Clinic’s financial ... to a national audience and dramatically increasing its impact ,” says Mae Watson Grote, Founder and...

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Economic Security

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... the end of last year, Soros declared that the world's “ collective failure” to help the tens of millions of ... to “invest in startups, established companies, social impact initiatives, and businesses...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Immigration

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UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/02/2019

... to UCLA to support a pilot project designed to reframe how Middle Eastern studies are conceptualized and taught. The ... models on the Middle East and North Africa region that can be shared with other...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation Along with National and Local Donors Join Collaborative Charged with Closing the Racial Wealth Gap on Long Island

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02/27/2020

... Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative in 2018 to pool resources and develop a grantmaking strategy to address the ... in areas related to employment. There is a need for greater synergy and improved access...

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Community Development

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Eero Simoncelli Leads New Center for Computational Neuroscience at The Simons Foundation

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01/26/2021

... will use and develop computational models to understand how brains work. The CCN joins existing Flatiron Institute ... 20 or even 10 years ago.” New experimental techniques have generated colossal datasets in...

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Science

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Getting Out of our Comfort Zone in Response to COVID-19

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04/07/2020

... $1.7 million . This was the biggest, fastest effort we have ever made in over 40 years of grantmaking. As a ... to make grants at any given time is directly related to how much we are able to fundraise. Our...

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Disaster Relief

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... of Education, the first thing that struck me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school leaders, in terms of having an impact on student outcomes. We needed ways to better prepare .....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Rockefeller Foundation Spearheads Resilience Strategy in Colorado

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04/29/2016

... The document builds off wildfire and flood plans to show how hazards are interlinked—and how they impact businesses and low-income people. The resilience ... to leverage dollars spent on...

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