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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

... disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . A traditional catastrophe bond is issued by ...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

... years," said Inder Verma, professor in the Salk Institute' s Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper ... Institutes of Health, the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation , and the Leona M...

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Peterson Quoted on Congress Not Cutting Government Deficits

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01/21/2016

... For six straight years, Americans watched their government' s borrowing shrink. Then last month, that trend towards ... 24 percent, to $544 billion, in this fiscal year. That' s up from last year...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... of Chicago Prof. Jeffrey Grogger found that Mexico' s soda taxes raised sugar-sweetened beverage prices by ... reduction in purchases of sugary drinks after the law' s passage. That study was funded...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Funds Camden Coalition to Establish National Healthcare Center

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03/09/2016

... The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . The center would help improve care for ...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence' s high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city' s...

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Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater's OSLO Cast

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04/21/2016

Doris Duke Funds Lincoln Center Theater' s OSLO Cast OSLO is supported by a Theatre Commissioning ... Production Initiative grant from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . A darkly comic epic, Oslo tells the...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC, Sustainable ... and will provide an additional 5,000 meals to City Harvest' s network of soup kitchens and food...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

... that unusual. It was the right alliance.” This week’ s summit was organized by national foundations including the ...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker' s NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships "Internships," the headline in the New York Times’ s opinion section read, "Are Not a Privilege." The op-...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the foundation divesting from the fossil-fuel industry it helped ...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’ s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art. This ... five-and-a-half year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the museum’...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic' s Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A ... puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U. S . philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck ... in...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... better than any European or Asian nation today. It’ s an extraordinary success story. But how should this ... principle of moral pedagogy — but disastrous as a foundation for democratic politics in our...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Disconnected from Worker Reality Media coverage of America' s independent workers leans more positively than the ... and even loneliness. On behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation , Cision conducted a one-...

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Workforce Development

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

Bloomberg' s Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick ... the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’ s first public health treaty, little financial or technical ... of the City...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’ s population is expected to be urban by 2050. Figure out how ... Cities Accelerator, a partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and Unreasonable...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged In 2016, the NoVo Foundation , a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’ s son and daughter-in-law, announced it had won the rights ... the former prison. The project...

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Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems

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02/09/2017

... for a Competitive Inner City and the Rockefeller Foundation warns. Based on an analyses of food systems in ... Portland, Maine, the report, The Resilience of America' s Urban Food Systems: Evidence From...

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