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Atlantic Announces $40M for Fellowship to Reduce International Health Disparities

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02/01/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies, in its last year of grantmaking, announced a number of major investments to improve access to quality health care for people in both Southeast Asia and the United States.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

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03/15/2016

... Welcome to the global food supply chain of 2016, a vast system in quiet crisis which requires an emergency ... our planet and protect profits. By 2050, the earth’ s population will have swelled to an estimated...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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NYS Health Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care

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05/09/2016

... Foundation President Calls For Proper Veteran Care The U. S . Department of Veterans Affairs is again under fire for ... long waiting lists for appointments at the nation’ s VA health care facilities, and for...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... years immediately following the decision. The university’ s capital campaign raised $1.5 billion from 2003 to 2007, ... Georgia and six members of the University of Califorinia system , all of which had...

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Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training

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06/13/2017

Markle Foundation: Trump' s Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training ... out his principles for a $1 trillion makeover of America’ s roads, bridges, waterways, electrical grid, and air...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge ... Finance—earlier this month Citi won Euromoney’ s inaugural award for the world’...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Economic Security

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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 well-heeled funders are inclined to agree. ...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U. S . These efforts have transformed or saved hundreds of ... inevitable success stories in retrospect. Many of today’ s emerging large-scale...

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Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

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08/30/2017

Sixty Days Into MTA' s 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To ... review of the calcified organization that runs the subway system . Within 30 days, MTA chairman Joe Lhota, a Cuomo...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S . out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are ... 27 business powerhouses also support a GOP group that’ s fought to undo a key Obama-era...

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Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

... Charlottesville terrorist attack and Colin Kaepernick’ s protest of systemic racism and police shootings of young black men—a topic recently revived by Trump’ s slew of derogatory tweets aimed at the NFL and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation' s Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To ... Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U. S . Department of Housing and Urban Development and The ... $1...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017—will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and federal...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’ s Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced ... Chair Danielle Allen. Gerken is one of the country’ s leading experts on constitutional law and election...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Communities Thrive Challenge Grantees

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12/05/2018

Today, we are thrilled to share the names of the 10 organizations that will each receive a $1 million grant as part of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a joint funding opportunity from The Rockefeller Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Each...

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Open Society Foundations Accepting Applications for Soros Justice Fellowships

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10/23/2019

... and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U. S . criminal justice system . The fellowships are part of a larger effort within ... and conversation, and catalyze change on important U. S...

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Arabella Advisors Adds Chief Information Officer, Vince L'Erario

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07/27/2020

... the appointment of Vince L’Erario as the company’ s first chief information officer (CIO). Vince brings deep ... in 2020 and beyond, and further develop the organization' s core technology functions. “The...

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25 May 2021

Why the Time is Right for a Guaranteed Income with an Equity Lens - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

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1:00pm to 2:00pm

This program is hosted by our partner, Asset Funders Network ... and philanthropy. Panelists will share outcomes and new research results from some of the most successful GI ... and Mississippi); goals for the...

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JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

Release Date:

03/24/2016

... $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report ( PDF ) by the Institute for Women’ s Policy Research (IWPR). These middle-skill jobs, which ... a halt in the last decade,” said Ariane...

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