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Financing the Social Sector

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09/15/2014

... GDP. In order to do that, nonprofits will need to invest more in growth and develop more capacity in gaining access to capital. Funders and ...

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Wallace Foundation President Will Miller Tackles Education Reform in NYTimes Editorial

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04/17/2015

... School districts, states and universities need to do much more to get outstanding principals into these schools. A ... in the mid-1990s. Today’s principal needs to be much more focused on the quality of...

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AXA Announces the 2015 AXA Achievers

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04/21/2015

... an additional scholarship award of $15,000. AXA has given more than $25 million in scholarships to more than 6,000 students since the program's inception in .....

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

... businesses in rural areas of China; create or sustain more than twenty thousand jobs; and enhance the financial knowledge and skills of more than thirty-six hundred entrepreneurs through financial ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... to help foundations improve their grantmaking so they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their ... a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one more thing in common, something that...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

... in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit documents that were obtained ... financial aid is disbursed at the expense of broader and more pressing concerns, such as...

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What Big (and not-so-big) Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style

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05/23/2016

... and their philanthropic gifts. Spoiler alert—they are more connected than ever. While it still does happen (we ... next six months is a rarity. To a millennial, it must seem more probable that someone is...

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Century Foundation Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases

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06/07/2016

... schools, and school integration. Potter said teachers need more support from schools, such as occasional visits from school psychologists, and more wraparound services in general to ensure teachers don't...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

... Museum has been prototyping ways to reach visitors on a more personal level. Their final product is the ASK Brookly ... with the collection, and as a result, are providing more information in some places or...

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Arts

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Following Ford's Lead, Another Foundation Goes All In on Equity

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08/17/2016

... a similar commitment to address inequality a little more than a year ago. The statement made by Ford ... over project grants, for instance, along with listening more carefully to marginalized voices, and...

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Survey Supported by Ford Foundation Says Nearly Half of Young Adults Lack Retirement Savings, Pension

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10/17/2016

... Public Affairs Research. The youngest in that group are more likely to still be in school, but the trend also holds for those in their late 20s. More than 4 in 10 of those aged 25 to 30 have nothing for ...

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Economic Security

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Impact of Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Education around the Country Noted

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06/07/2017

... “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats. In ... algorithms determine which lessons students see. And in more than 100 schools nationwide, Mark...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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Opinion: Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause

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08/30/2017

... weather causes heavier rainfall. Why? When the seas warm, more moisture evaporates into the air, and when the air warms ... which has also been happening in Texas — it can carry more moisture. . . Opinion:...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Next Houston

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... of just 100,000. Today, the Miami metropolitan area has more than 6 million residents. Even as Harvey lingers in the ... hurricane season continues, and threatens to bring more nasty storms in short order. In...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... of sustainability opportunities. And interestingly, the more ambitious the innovation, the bigger the bang. We found ... profited from sustainability did so by changing three or more elements of their business...

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Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/05/2017

... billions of dollars in damages. Companies have pledged more than $157 million to relief efforts as of Saturday ... Commerce. Sixty-nine companies had donated $1 million or more so far. Walmart has pledged up...

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Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... Social Responsibility Millennials are becoming even more engaged in philanthropic causes in 2017 than they were ... for an issue they cared about, and millennials are more likely than other generations to...

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A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market

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10/10/2017

... climate benefit, are a type of responsible investment. More broadly, they are an example of leadership from the ... market for potential investors and issuers seeking to do more to protect the planet. . . A...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants

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10/13/2017

... Hearst Grants The Hearst Foundations this week announced more than $1.5 million in grants for California nonprofits, including more than $800,000 for Bay Area initiatives. The largest of ...

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