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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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Economic Security

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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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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn' s Disease in Asia The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University of...

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State

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04/24/2017

... OpenNotes in New York State The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is pleased to launch a Request for ...

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Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

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05/10/2017

... reporting and build cooperative networks, the Rita Allen Foundation is supporting the Center for Cooperative Media ... like to hear from local news outlets across the U. S . and from projects that include...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom Generosa Gonato' s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer ... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by...

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early ...

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A Peek into Bloomberg Philanthropies’ New Public Health Initiative

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06/23/2017

... to be part of “Partnership for Healthy Cities,” the foundation ’ s latest initiative launched just last month, just before the ...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’ s hyper-localized criminal justice system. Plenty of ... in to pitch Ackman and the board of his Pershing Square Foundation , not knowing what to expect...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... But heirs Nat and Liz Simons are taking the family’ s hedge fund fortune a different direction with some serious ... personality, crazy life story, and his and wife Marilyn’ s game-changing giving. But his...

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He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy

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08/22/2017

He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller' s Philanthropy and Legacy After David Rockefeller’ s death on March 20, at the age of 101, the New York Times ... 15 years while running the Rockefeller Brothers...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

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09/13/2017

... Hampshire, and of the Skowhegan School, in Maine. There’ s the Rome Prize fellowship, at the city’ s American Academy, and Donald Judd’ s Chinati Foundation , in Marfa. To be...

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

... for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a report card today meant to underscore ... objectives. The report by the nation’ s largest grant maker, which has already directed...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... pledged more than $36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, and the three friends joined forces a ... the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the world’ s richest people to contribute...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “It’ s permanent until homelessness is solved.” So remarked John Schoettler, Amazon’ s real estate and facilities VP, to the New York Times after ... than that,...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... design also accommodated three outdoor event venues; it’ s easy to imagine ticket-takers and other gate-keepers ... Trusts and Friends and Foundations and Conservancies, it’ s worth wondering what else seeps...

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