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The World's Soaring CO2 Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... Agreement, an ambitious effort to limit warming that 200 countries signed onto in 2015. (President Donald Trump still ... atmosphere could see jumps in average temperature as high as 6 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit...

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Environment and Climate Change

Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer ...

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

Release Date:

11/14/2017

Today, World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at reducing food waste in the hotel...

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Jamie Merisotis Becomes Council on Foundations' Board Chair

Release Date:

05/14/2019

... is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. He previously served as ...

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Council on Foundations

The House and Senate Tax Bills Are Terrible for Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve

Release Date:

12/06/2017

... or reduce of the deduction for state and local taxes and how bad that will be for states like New York. There has also ... endorsements, and more.” Protecting the trust and high value that the American public...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Scherman Foundation

2020 Open Society Fellows Developing Approaches to Counter Economic Inequality

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02/06/2020

... will produce a book and a series of videos to show how the unequal distribution of risk between corporations and ... , an international human rights lawyer, will draw on her experience with multi-stakeholder...

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Open Society Foundations

Betsy Edasery Appointed Philanthropy Analyst at TCC Group

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08/22/2013

... TCC Group’s philanthropy team. She has extensive experience working for a range of organizations in the ... young people of color with wealth to leverage their resources for progressive social change. She also...

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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $9.1 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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03/12/2024

... aims to provide aid to a larger number of individuals in need and give our partners the tools they need to carry out their work most efficiently and ... program seeks to help people at a critical moment with a...

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Education

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Gerstner Philanthropies

Surdna Foundation Invites LOIs for Environmental Infrastructure Programs

Release Date:

09/10/2015

Surdna seeks nonprofits that improve urban infrastructure systems that maximize positive impact while minimizing negative consequences.

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New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects We didn’t need World Water Week last week to remind us that too little ...

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project

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02/28/2014

... making it easier for citizens to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent. The unusual nomination for ... of the world's military spending, more than the next 16 countries combined…. A Nobel...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

Release Date:

10/06/2016

... kindergarten up - in communities across the country - and how to help these Dreamers stay engaged, achieve and pay for ...

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Education

Immigration

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The New York Community Trust

Supported by Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Story Explores Trump's Immigration Policies on Turkish Communities

Release Date:

01/05/2017

... opponent of Muslims. Altay says he is paying attention to how the new president will contribute economically to the ...

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JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset Building in Communities of Color

Release Date:

05/26/2017

... and interesting. Most strikingly, as we've noted, is how more top financial firms now seem to grasp that economic .....

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Economic Security

Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... hired two immigration attorneys to advise his staffers on how to protect green card holders and other immigrants, by ...

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Justice Reform

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pledges $250 Million to Reimagine US Monuments

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10/07/2020

... as a rubric is, it’s really a way of asking, ‘ How do we say who we are? How do we teach our history in public places?’” Elizabeth ... we’re being taught,” she continued. “We want to ask how...

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Arts

Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

The Tow Foundation Appoints Nadia Alia As The New Director Of Operations

Release Date:

03/28/2017

... focus on the support of innovative programs and system reform in the areas of juvenile and criminal justice, ...

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Annual AdvancingCities Challenge

Release Date:

06/02/2021

... leadership and collaboration, center the voice and lived experience of Black or Latina women, and drive systems change ...

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Why Should Your Foundation Continue to Exist?

Release Date:

04/14/2014

... production in Africa. That’s an example of what how we can produce far greater change than with our money ... term, noting that Rockefeller has been working on public health related issues since 1913. “That...