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Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

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09/22/2015

... surveillance, privacy, and economic justice, experienced how borrowers are targeted firsthand when he was called by a ... interactions with one company, Student Debt Relief, and how it operates in a regulatory...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... for leaders to stop focusing on what Drucker labeled “ how to do” techniques, and instead think about three ... revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an institutional level...

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Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities: Analysis Method Using Data-Driven Mapping

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03/29/2016

... A new study from Sandia National Laboratories assesses how much the city, its region and the nation would suffer in ... conversation in Norfolk regarding flooding and demonstrate how the long-term benefits of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

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01/24/2017

... you hang around philanthropy, the more you'll realize how deeply family background influences people's giving. Read ... philanthropic families we've also often been struck by how closely the...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Foundation

With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications

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05/19/2017

... Heinz, the standards shift a student's thought process to " how things happen, why things happen and how the world works." Without a doubt, students will use .....

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?

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07/17/2017

... is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It? How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country that ... long. But its laser focus on the immigration issue, and how communities can welcome the...

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Immigration

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Unbound Philanthropy

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector? How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy ... to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So how did these leaders—some with competing...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

... B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation . I wanted to learn how this foundation came to support a form of reflective practice as capacity buildin g, and that’s how I began my conversation with the foundation’s...

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The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

Release Date:

11/16/2017

... 55 people across the U.S. territory. "We have to reimagine how we're going to rebuild," said Miguel Soto-Class, founder ... who will submit a report by early next year on where and how federal...

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Disaster Relief

Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

... underlies the foundation’s initiatives and describes how a focus on continuous improvement fits into this. ... to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to effectively train and support...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Wallace Foundation

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release Scaling Solutions toward Shifting Systems: Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change Report

Release Date:

07/22/2020

... more complex, many philanthropic funders are reflecting on how to create more transformational impact. To help answer ... Philanthropy Advisors. Our goal is to examine when, how , and why certain solutions...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Regional Community Calendar

... Foundation RSVP here July 2025 July 17 2025 How Funders, Nonprofits, and Their Boards Are Leading ...

Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?

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07/15/2013

... of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the resiliency of our food distribution ...

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Insights

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Surdna Foundation

Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy

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10/2007

How do foundations maximize their impact? What is the role of ...

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Good Charity, Bad Charity

Release Date:

08/10/2013

... op-ed by Princeton University professor Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

18 Jul 2012

Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC

... for philanthropic investments in Black communities and how the sector could more effectively advance strategies that ...

Making IT Decisions

Publication date:

12/2012

... technology needs, it is critical to understand how to approach projects so you make decisions that fit your ...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Information Technology

Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

Release Date:

03/13/2015

... data from her research shows “disturbing” results of how “profoundly fewer” female characters are in family ...

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Communications/Media

Gender Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation

29 Apr 2015

Measuring Impact: Joys, Monsters and Opportunities in Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation - Webinar

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... field continues to wrestle with questions of impact - how do we know that peacebuilding programs work? How do we measure the cumulative effect of programs in a ... of the state of the evaluation field in...