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Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks When Hurricane Harvey blasted ashore in August, drowning south Texas in a year's worth of rain in just a few days, it left behind an estimated $150...

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Environment and Climate Change

Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Us to Eat More of What We Grow

Release Date:

07/20/2018

... a full one-third of all food produced goes uneaten. When accounting for waste, we consume less than half of all ... in accounting for food loss and waste. Reducing waste is just one part of the solution. Meat...

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Member News

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State

Release Date:

10/12/2018

... Hoosier employers recognize the value of skills training when hiring employees for their facilities, rather than just simply looking for workers with a college degree. ...

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Workforce Development

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future

Release Date:

04/07/2020

... requires us to confront power, shift how we distribute our resources , and move toward system-wide transformation. In ... critical needs rising from the global pandemic. But it is just as important to act...

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Social Justice

Median Pay For CEOs In Health Care Companies Higher Than Any Other Industry

Release Date:

05/27/2015

... that paycheck seems handsome, it wasn’t. At least, not when you compare it to Hemsley’s total pay five years earlier, when it amounted to $102 million. Executives at health care ... In fact, analysts noted...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

Release Date:

11/03/2015

... particularly women, are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their skills are most needed. Just 24 percent of the world's STEM workforce is women and ... be on the panel on November 9, 2015 at the...

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AOL Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

A Better Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone

Release Date:

06/19/2017

... Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone When David Callahan, Inside Philanthropy’s founder, was ... but snowed under with my own work, quite honestly, I just didn’t feel like donning the...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Pershing Square Foundation

Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... Up For Immigrant Communities I came to the United States when I was 14 years old from Ecuador. I came here to join my ... earn enough to send my siblings and me to college. When I arrived, I was undocumented,...

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Immigration

Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety

Release Date:

01/05/2018

... The real work for city leaders today is to create not just new rules, but new ways of writing and adjusting ... Many city governments in the U.S. and elsewhere are torn when it comes to innovation. On the one...

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Member News

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

Release Date:

01/26/2018

... Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF Women make up just 21% of attendees at the World Economic Forum, an annual ... Markle Foundation, said there were noticeably fewer women when she first came to Davos 17...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

Release Date:

05/19/2015

... many engineering undergraduates utter this simple phrase when asked why they are taking a particular liberal-arts ... technologies, engineering students need to do more than just consider the mechanics or...

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

Release Date:

03/15/2017

... the Collaborative will work to popularize authentic, just narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees ... that reach mass audiences and support field building resources that strengthen our...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arts

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

National Funders, Including Casey Family Programs, Support Antelope Valley, CA After String of Child Welfare Incidents

Release Date:

11/11/2019

... like an air-traffic controller, linking social workers to resources and better supporting an often-isolated community ... the deaths of three young boys. “We all want to protect kids and we want to ensure that...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs

Surdna and the Andrus Family Fund Join PNY Member Foundations and Other Donors in Pledging to Redouble Commitments to Puerto Rico

Release Date:

09/30/2020

... community leaders and organizations who are committed to just , equitable, and inclusive recovery efforts ; and ... More than ever, we must all use our platforms to mobilize resources and elevelate the voices...

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Community Development

Disaster Relief

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Surdna Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Mellon Foundation

2/11/2016 - "National Leadership as Diverse as the U.S. - Philanthropy Can Make It Happen" Live Stream Recording & PPT Presentation

View materials and recording of the program "National Leadership as Diverse as the U.S. - Philanthropy Can Make It Happen."

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

12 May 2022

TAP is Back: The Historic Restoration of Financial Aid for Students Pursuing College in Prison

Thursday, May 12, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... people. This comes nearly 26 years after the 1994 Crime Bill banned Pell eligibility and financial aid for ... for the future of people who are incarcerated, especially when they return home? What additional...

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

Release Date:

06/14/2016

... “Who pays how much and for what?” It could be easy to just throw up our hands and ask, “Why should I care?” ... in the tax code to support those contributed resources . But that is exactly the point—taxes and...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

It’s Time to Define Our New Normal

Release Date:

12/19/2016

... By Donita Volkwijn, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors When I went to work on Nov. 9, I experienced a fear that I ... this thing that happened on November 8, 2016 didn’t just appear like a ghost from the mist...

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Communications/Media

Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Beyond the Glass Cliff: Redefining Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector

Release Date:

06/28/2024

... organization’s issues, without the necessary support or resources , and without room for error – though the risk of ... 2020. The challenges leaders of color experience didn’t just start, and they are not...