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Westchester Community Foundation Met $2 Million Goal and has Distributed $861,500 in COVID-19 Grants to Date

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08/03/2020

... Covid-19 Response Fund, the Foundation will shift its funding focus to a longer-term recovery phase to ensure that ... the region and are best positioned to deploy the right resources to meet such a critical...

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Surdna Foundation Celebrates Centennial Year with $4.5 Million Commitment to Equitable Community Development

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12/06/2017

The Surdna Foundation announced a new, $4.5 million investment in equitable community development led by community members. Surdna's catalytic contribution to the Amplify Fund will seed a multimillion-dollar pooled fund to put neighborhood...

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27 Jun 2024

Service for Impact: Creating Volunteer Opportunities that Advance Social Impact Strategies

Thursday, June 27, 2024 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... include how to center equity in program design, addressing global workforce challenges, identifying meaningful ...

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Building Bridges: Philanthropy's Journey Towards Active Advocacy

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04/12/2024

... For nonprofits, their workforce, and philanthropic funding to function with maximum impact, government must ... influx of new New Yorkers seeking asylum with essential resources . However, the nonprofits most...

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Add the “A” and It’s Full STEAM Ahead for Girls

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10/30/2015

... Foundation, Intel and Microsoft and supported by Meridian International Center among others, the WiSci curriculum was ... AOL enhanced the program curriculum by leveraging its resources as a media technology...

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Schendler & Haynes: Finally, ski resorts wake up to warming

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09/05/2013

... ski resorts and a climate-focused nonprofit to address global warming in The Salt Lake Tribune. Despite all that's written about climate change, global efforts to address the unfolding crisis are failing...

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New Arcus Report on Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation Reveals Potential of Collaboration Among Industry, Conservation and Government Sectors

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04/18/2014

... Sectors New York, NY – The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among ... Industries and Ape Conservation, the first in a series of global reports examining a range of economic...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Adds New Team Members in New York and San Francisco

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08/26/2014

... Heather Grady as a Senior Fellow with a special focus on global philanthropy will both be based in San Francisco. Nick ... is an exciting time for RPA, with consistent growth in our global philanthropy, and we...

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RPA, Ford and MasterCard Support Bogata Convening on World Philanthropy

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03/12/2015

... around how philanthropy can engage in the evolving global development landscape. "I'm greatly encouraged by ... inequality and enhance opportunities at national and global levels...." RPA, Ford...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... NJ into the world’s largest indoor vertical farm and global corporate headquarters for AeroFarms, the leading ... art 69,000 square foot indoor vertical farm and global headquarters in a converted steel...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

... the private, public, and NGO sectors; and membership in a global network of participating cities to facilitate ...

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Carnegie-Backed Study Explores Adolescent Girls' Knowledge of HPV and Sexuality in Western Uganda

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09/02/2015

The study investigated the influence of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on adolescent girls’ knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccine.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... is prepared to meet the growing challenges of the global economy. Sara Link, President, AOL Charitable ... panel on November 9, 2015 at the Conrad Hotel, when the Global STEM Alliance (GSA) of the New York...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... than “reshaping the world” — and the gathering of global power players still lends itself to high-minded ... that food waste represents a $1 trillion drain on the global economy, stretching from farmers in...

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Rockefeller-founded Asia Society Marks 60 Years of Building Bridges Between the U.S. & Asia

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03/15/2016

... exhibitions and signature events across the Society's global network that kick off this week in New York. Asia ... has since grown from a small New York institution to a global organization with 12...

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

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03/15/2016

... and toss one third of it into the trash. Welcome to the global food supply chain of 2016, a vast system in quiet ... While hunger is the most visible part of this quiet global crisis, it is certainly not the...

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MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship of “Multipliers of Prosperity” for a Third Year

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04/05/2017

... of financial inclusion. According to the World Bank’s Global Findex*, there are over two billion people globally, ...

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