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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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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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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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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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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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Audacious Philanthropy

Release Date:

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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TCF Senior Fellow Barton Gellman Wins Third Pulitzer

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04/30/2014

... Washington Post coverage of the National Security Agency' s massive surveillance program . Century Foundation senior fellow Barton Gellman shared journalism’ s top prize today. The...

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Partnership with MasterCard Foundation Working to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa

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11/13/2014

... Foundation to launch the Accion Africa Board Fellowship program . Targeted at corporate board members and CEOs, the Fellowship program is designed to promote peer-to-peer learning on ... Through an elite...

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Simons Foundation Invites LOIs for Significant Mathematical, Theoretical Studies

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08/24/2015

... Theoretical Studies The Simons Foundation’ s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites Letters of Intent for the Simons Collaborations in MPS program . The aim of the program is to...

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke' s Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia When Doris Duke ... do today. Now, through its Building Bridges grants program , the Doris Duke Charitable...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... marketing and back-office management of the programs. That' s even true of Harvard University, which announced a partnership with one of these online program management companies Monday. A warning about...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... in the day, Mr. Trump had scrapped his predecessor’ s program sparing younger illegal immigrants from deportation ... by giving it a six-month deadline to “fix” the program before it would...

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