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HSBC Names Kelly W. Fisher Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability

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07/15/2015

... U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability Kelly W. Fisher has been appointed as Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of ... sits on the corporate advisory board of Do Something and has served on the executive board...

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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge So far, this has been a summer of political campaigning and stunning ... the forces that still divide us. Among those voices has been that of Darren Walker, president of...

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Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

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11/20/2015

... neighborhood with the most concentrated poverty in America has Victorian-style homes with big porches, immaculate public ... are empty because a recent spate of shootings in this city has made parents fear for...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... at the dinner table. The century-old foundation, which has already taken on challenges like making cities more ... “resilient” to the challenges of the 21st century, has estimated that food waste represents a...

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Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs

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02/05/2016

... new housing. The study found that although Long Island has recently started building more rentals, co-ops, condominiums and other multifamily homes than it has in previous decades, a big gap still exists...

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Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

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02/11/2016

... Bob's life in Iraq, we celebrate the impact that moment has had over the last decade. Inspired by the Woodruff's ... returns home. In the decade since Bob's injuries, much has changed and we...

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... 2007, 40 districts pursued integration. Today that number has more than doubled, to 83, plus nine charter schools or ... than they'd otherwise be. This new wave of integration has come with one big...

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... made up of 11 major universities across the United States has knocked its goal of graduating more students — ... State and the University of California, Riverside. Each has committed to working with the others...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... by Mr. Rauschenberg 18 years before his death in 2008, has been a part of this system. But after experiments over the last year, it has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of ...

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NY Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women

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03/29/2016

... our work is done – it is not. Although women's equality has seen significant gains throughout the 20th century, from ... the Young Women's Initiative. Philanthropic investment has also increased...

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

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04/25/2016

... 2015 was approved. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of scores of companies for being over-reliant ... on fossil fuel, and the Rockefeller Foundation has divested from fossil fuel entirely.....

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

... including Hillary Clinton’s Presidential bid. Soros, who has spent nineteen million dollars on the 2016 Presidential ... with suspicion by many conservatives. National Review has suggested that he may be...

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... home to dinner. This complacency among us white Americans has been a historical constant. Even in the last decade, ... the history of white Americans’ attitudes toward race has always been one of self-...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... lynching victims. The nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital ... by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... who ranked seventh in 2015 giving with $427 million, has given a total of $7.46 billion to philanthropic causes ... the bulk of them to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has given $25.54 billion, or 39...

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

... Board Newman's Own today announced that Walter Harrison has been appointed to the Newman's Own Advisory Board. ... of Hartford in West Hartford, CT, where he has served since 1998, marking nearly a...

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

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11/17/2016

... Money for College Readiness Program The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a ... program, Learning to Work. Since its inception, LTW has served thousands of high school students in...

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

... it. Yes, that Rockefeller family. The company, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the ... campaign to defend its image. But the oil and gas giant has directed some of its fiercest...

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

... Township schools in 1971. Yet the Morris School District has endured, surviving early racial unrest and shifting ... most segregated states. This 5,226-student district has thrived as merger attempts in New...

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