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Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Just prior to that, Vermont S enator Bernie Sanders ... without a disability recipient.” In other words, when using this health-inclusive poverty measure...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

Release Date:

10/20/2017

... to leave school to care for her family. Years later, when her mom passed away from cancer, Danielle struggled to ... hired, kick-starting her promising new career. Danielle is just one of many beneficiaries of...

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Ford Foundation

New Report From Silicon Valley Community Foundation Helps Companies Align With the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... to energy. Ending inequality in education. These are just some of the objectives of the Sustainable Development ... The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Why, When and How Guide for Business –...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

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01/11/2018

... the U.S., Surdna’s commitment to impact investing is not just about furthering its mission, but it’s also about ... positive social, environmental and financial returns. “ When the Foundation first made a...

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... Field: Why did you decide to go all in? Clara Miller: When I arrived, we were still in post-2008 cleanup. We had ... and a nice path to the American dream. We concluded that just wasn't true anymore. So...

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Mac Aids Fund Lends Its Support to Some of the Most Beautiful Moments in Angels in America

Release Date:

04/17/2018

... solution to his sorrow is so simple and sympathetic. “ When Andrew [Garfield] appears in full drag, it’s this ... Angelo and Frank Toskan created the MAC AIDS Fund in 1994, just three years after the premiere...

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MAC And Benefit Announce Support For Planned Parenthood

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03/12/2019

... Chief Beauty Ambassador at Benefit Cosmetics explains, “ When Planned Parenthood let us know that MAC would also be ... for our two competing beauty brands. We knew that not just the message of support, but...

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The Estée Lauder Companies

Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time

Release Date:

03/31/2019

... Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time When massive protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri in August ... social activists to take control of their own narratives. Just five days after the...

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Technology

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Shows Glimpse of How Moisture and Humidity Affect Mold Growth

Release Date:

06/10/2019

... dynamics of mold growth on common building materials when maintained at high-humidity conditions. Stephens also ... and whether materials were tested under wet conditions or just high-humidity conditions, we...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Mosquito 'spit glands' Hold Key to Curbing Malaria, Study Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Shows

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08/12/2019

... yet while slurping blood from a victim, they transmit just a tiny fraction of them. In an effort to define ... mosquitoes to spread in a complex life cycle that begins when mosquitoes eat male and female...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

ViacomCBS Helps Lead Vote Early Day - A First-Of-Its-Kind Civic Holiday to Help Americans Learn About Their Options to Vote Early

Release Date:

09/28/2020

... know their options to vote early. Creating Awareness When Americans vote early, they ensure that last minute ... and ten days before Election Day, Vote Early Day occurs just as the nation as a whole fully...

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Open Society Foundations Name Laura Carvalho as the New Global Director of Equity Following Organizational Transformation

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05/16/2022

... range of structural and economic inequalities. In June, when Carvalho starts her new role, she will join a global ... Global Programs’ Equity work also includes advancing a just financial recovery, and...

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Despite Gridlock In Washington, Funders See Enormous Potential to Move the Needle on America’s Gun Crisis

Release Date:

11/15/2016

... in a number of states, legislatively and by referendum. Just last week, voters in California, Nevada and Washington ... from a central belief that communities are stronger when they share benefits broadly...

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Communications/Media

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Media Impact Funders

The Term Impact Investing Needs to Be Better Understood

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02/03/2016

... Nothing gets our philanthropic community talking more than when The New York Times totally gets us wrong. But when it happens, it also spurs us to action. The term ... foundation leaders concerned about...

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President's Message

PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

PhilTV: Women, Own and Embrace Your Power

Release Date:

04/11/2016

... say “I don’t want to be ‘that woman director,’ I just want to be the director who happens to be a woman.” ... fact, bring others to the table. IN THE CLIP BELOW, just prior, Moderator Cecilia Clark, President...

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Morgan Stanley

Brooklyn Org

OMB Uniform Guidance: Are Your Grantees Prepared?

Release Date:

03/17/2015

... nonprofits for the reasonable indirect costs they incur when performing services on behalf of governments, at a ... To fill these gaps, nonprofits then divert limited resources and incur more costs trying to...

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PNY News

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PNY Signs Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy's (AAPIP) Open Letter to Philanthropy: The Cure to Viral Racism Is Within Our Hands

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04/08/2020

... profiling of Black, Brown, and Native American people just going about their lives. We thank those that stand in ... of Asian Americans is fueled by fear and racism simmering just below the surface. ...

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PNY News

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Disaster Relief

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Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)

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

Release Date:

05/11/2020

... oil, and gas holdings—returned 6.71 percent annually. When the RBF, a philanthropic foundation founded by the ... to back it up.” The divestment movement accounted for just $50 billion in global assets under...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

A New Era for NYC Government, an Opportunity for Philanthropy

Release Date:

11/20/2013

... new Administration an acknowledgement of the need to not just tap philanthropy's financial resources but also to learn from funders' knowledge, .....