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New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story Americans aren’t moving. ... track. But this all-time low is only true when you include people under age 29, many of whom fall in the...

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Housing and Homelessness

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Launches Campaign for Greater Investments in Santa Clara County’s Youngest Residents

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01/03/2020

... Clara County Supervisor from District 3 is a champion for young children. The Choose Children campaign will engage ... the overwhelming evidence proving the importance of investing in children’s early years,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Original Instructions: A Challenge to Philanthropy to Expand Health and Educational Opportunities for Native Youth

... to philanthropy. It’s a first step towards using our resources to recognize and learn from the resilient Native ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

COVID-19 Relief Awards: Commonwealth Fund Staff Respond

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04/01/2020

... polling, expanded surveys in the field, and performed new research and analysis — all in an effort to listen to those ... years, AIRnyc ’s community health workers have helped people manage chronic conditions...

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Pershing Square Sohn Prize Awards $4.2M to Seven “Next Generation” Innovators in Cancer Research

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05/21/2019

... $4.2M to Seven “Next Generation” Innovators in Cancer Research The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research ... seven winners of the 2019 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in...

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to ... of Doing Good Challenge which asked small groups of young people (14-19) to think about and create ways to .....

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Open Society Foundations, Foundation for a Just Society, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Create Group Initiative to Support Women's Funds

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11/20/2019

... human rights and opportunities of women, girls, and LGBTI people around the world. Women’s funds have a long track ... for ensuring a healthy and vibrant ecosystem for funding women’s rights and gender justice...

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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

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Gender Justice

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Sarah Brennan Joins Rockefeller Family Fund as Associate Director

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03/02/2022

... her tenure at Bloomberg, will continue to benefit from her insights as she grows the Funder Collaborative on Oil and ... Fund, Tortuga Foundation, and Zegar Family Foundation, among others. The Funder...

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Sheila Burke and Simon Stevens to Join Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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08/22/2013

... Commonwealth Fund Board, bringing a wealth and depth of knowledge about the keys to achieving a high-value, ... of the United Hospital Fund of New York . “Their insights will be especially critical to...

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USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

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09/06/2017

... of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. ...

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Food Systems

Finding the Right Balance: Thoughts on Advocacy and Direct Service Funding from Ashley Blanchard

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07/09/2010

... economic crisis, a number of our grantees reached out for funding to meet the immediate needs of their members. They ... and to support indirect advocacy activities like policy research and education. For a...

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SeaChange Capital Partners Announces New Fund to Make Program-Related Investments in New York City

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11/24/2014

Funders include the Altman Foundation and the Heckscher Foundation for Children.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

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01/20/2017

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.

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Environment and Climate Change

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International/Foreign Affairs

Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

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04/04/2016

The Rockefeller Family Fund has long campaigned for green energy and against carbon emissions, so its fossil fuel investments certainly did not make sense ethically, but financially. Other organizations and investors are also questioning fossil fuel...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

... and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing John D. Rockefeller would never have considered ... and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing ...

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With Support from NoVo Foundation, Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

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03/22/2018

... Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing The Buen Vivir Fund —established by Thousand ... Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers

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02/02/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Finds Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon ... of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who develop a sporadic form of colon cancer. A .....

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Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil Fuel Divestment at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/11/2020

Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil ... On Monday, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) released Investing in Our Mission , a new case study detailing how its ... said Rockefeller. “But it...

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Morgan Stanley, Kresge Foundation, LISC Launch $100 Million Investment Fund For Health Care, Affordable Housing

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01/14/2013

Called the Healthy Futures Fund, the project is in part a response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the 20 million new health care consumers that the legislation is likely to create.

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