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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

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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 AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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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

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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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Environment and Climate Change

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Social Justice

Technology

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Mellon Foundation

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

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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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Science

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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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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

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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

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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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Paramount

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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We Need Your Input on Justice Reform

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05/18/2016

... and advancing restorative justice programs that keep kids in schools. PNY is also in the process of developing ... increased the exploding prison population. Those are just a few ideas that are already in...

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Environment and Climate Change

21 Sep 2022

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... What will you learn? Labor market projections from the Just Transition Working Group’s green jobs report ...

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

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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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Insights

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Communications/Media

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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

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PhilTV: Women, Own and Embrace Your Power

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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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Gender Justice

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OMB Uniform Guidance: Are Your Grantees Prepared?

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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 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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Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)

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Disaster Relief

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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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