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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

Release Date:

11/20/2014

... by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) have launched a new initiative to facilitate stronger philanthropic input ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

... First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new , seven-foundation partnership created to support ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

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12/10/2014

... to historic buildings or passing bonds to pay for new fiber networks. Though the group is in its infancy, ...

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Technology

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Open Society Foundations

MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa

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01/21/2015

... Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. "This new Fund will stimulate private sector organizations to .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... Cities to Build Greater Resilience Judith Rodin’s new book, The Resilience Dividend, begins with her surveying ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Ford Foundation Joins Bipartisan Coalition to Change Criminal Justice System

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02/20/2015

... liberal issues group, are coming together to back a new organization called the Coalition for Public Safety. The ...

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Justice Reform

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Increasing Public Understanding of Muslim Societies Drives Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program

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03/16/2015

... than1.6 billion Muslims—we need imaginative ways to open new pathways for connection and understanding between Muslims ...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

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03/17/2015

... formal jobs or explore opportunities in agriculture. The new program is noteworthy not only for its scope, but for its ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Workforce Development

Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... and AeroFarms, together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), announce ...

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Food Systems

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

... prompting many in the foundation world to operate in new ways — and with approaches that could eventually turn ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

Release Date:

03/25/2015

... The Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project is a new NFTE initiative which offers dedicated programming, ...

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MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

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Education

Gender Justice

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Jonas Center Releases Homelessness Report Targeting Female Veterans

Release Date:

03/26/2015

... transferrable career skills and difficulty adjusting to new self-identities in civilian culture.... Jonas Center ...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Veterans

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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

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04/03/2015

... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build civic literacy and engagement...." Rita .....

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Education

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Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System

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04/06/2015

... to assess the financial complexity and risk involved with new models of care. The funds also will support efforts to ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Health

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

Release Date:

04/10/2015

... Michael Brune said at an event Wednesday announcing the new goal.... Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

Release Date:

04/13/2015

... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

... designed to address global economic challenges. The new think tank released a groundbreaking inaugural report, ...

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Community Development

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

... Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative include .....

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd

Release Date:

06/04/2015

... should highlight a more surprising possible engine of new employment for Americans: China. China’s middle ...

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