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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

Release Date:

07/20/2017

... Pollution This past May, senior representatives from 19 international agencies gathered for a groundbreaking meeting ... of death and disease on the planet. The meeting was an international display of...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... Efforts Skepticism abounded when Phillip Morris International announced it would fund and help set up a new ... than burn, nicotine-packed substances. Phillip Morris International seems to see these “vaping”...

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Announcing the 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Recipients

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08/12/2019

... 12, 2019 (Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom) – The international family of Carnegie institutions named the 10th ... and lasting impact on a particular field, nation, or the international community. Among...

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When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/15/2012

... her full response. This is a provocative question. Most of us , as individuals and institutions, have at one point ... a risk. But it is easy for even the most adventurous among us to become satisfied betting...

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Beyond the IRS: Communicating Your Foundation’s 990-PF

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12/21/2011

... Services at EisnerAmper LLP, and Art Taylor, CEO of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance. ...

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The Perpetuity Debate

Release Date:

04/29/2014

... those without running water, electricity or safety. Is it better to keep the money on the books and allow generation ...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

The Rockefeller Foundation

New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance Open Competitive Grant Program to Help Middle School Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs

Release Date:

12/13/2018

... and summer programs leads to greater academic achievement, better school attendance and more engaged students. “The ... more, with a focus on providing professional development opportunities for OST staff. In...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

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08/19/2015

... Latin Library project, which—when complete—will create resources that people of varying levels of interest and ... and launch of this Linked Open Data resource for providing resources and support of new...

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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... Autism BrainNet is a key step in developing the necessary resources to understand and treat autism spectrum ...

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25 Oct 2017

From Hurricane Sandy to Hurricane Maria: Can Disaster Philanthropy Be More Strategic?

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 -

9:00am to 1:00pm

... the right knowledge and data, however, philanthropists are better able to coordinate and make strategic decisions, ... of the annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2017 : Data to Drive Decisions...

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Lilien Leaves Charities Bureau to Join Zuckerman Spaeder

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10/15/2013

Jason R. Lilien, former New York State Charities Bureau Chief under Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and former Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, has moved on to joined the firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. Lilien will be leading the firm's new...

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Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by assessing five core questions every grantmaker should be able to answer about how it makes grants.

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$50-Million from Goldman Sachs Seeds Fund for Businesswomen

Release Date:

03/05/2014

... education in developing countries. The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation is putting up ...

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Gender Justice

Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Program Combines Private Capital with Public Effort

Release Date:

09/11/2014

... as computer services and software firm Palantir, the International Finance Corporation, non-profit software ...

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Huffington Post Profiles Christopher Stone of Open Society Foundations

Release Date:

09/26/2014

... is the president of the Open Society Foundations. He is an international expert on criminal justice reform and on the ...

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Leon Levy Foundation Names Robert F. Goldrich President

Release Date:

06/11/2015

... Bloomberg administration, Mr. Goldrich was an executive in international equities with Morgan Stanley & Co. and Credit ... from Columbia University. He served as a principal in international equity sales-...

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The PIMCO Foundation Sends Employees to Peru to Build Sustainable Small Businesses with Coffee Farmers

Release Date:

08/26/2015

... launched in 2011 in conjunction with TechnoServe, an international NGO that promotes business solutions to reduce ...

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Clinton Foundation Spinoff Reverses on Refiling Tax Forms

Release Date:

11/06/2015

The Clinton Health Access Initiative has again reversed itself on fixing errors on its federal tax filings and now says it plans to submitted amended returns.