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Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes

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08/24/2016

... to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival ... a microservices API layer that orchestrates the flow of data between archival systems and this...

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Rockefeller Archive Center

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Education

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Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil Fuel Divestment at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/11/2020

... divesting from fossil fuels five years ago. Financial data included in the study shows the RBF posted an average ... of trustees. “Now we have five years of financial data to back it up.” The divestment...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Environment and Climate Change

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From the Desk of Irfan Hasan: The New York Community Trust and Vaccinating our City

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05/13/2021

... to come. But history shows us some groups—especially low- income New Yorkers and people of color—have often been at ... School of Public Health and Policy will develop a data dashboard to track hesitancy and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Disaster Relief

Health

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Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability

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02/23/2018

... Understanding that stable homes provide an important platform for individual success and thriving communities, ... families across America who spend more than half of their income on rent — or have no homes at...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Housing and Homelessness

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Freedom Together Foundation

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

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01/21/2015

$15 million will support the development of new ideas, and $35 million wil help scale promising ideas or pilots.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

Several PNY Members’ Giving Contrasted with Silicon Valley’s ‘New Philanthropy’

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11/02/2015

... poor. San Francisco also has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the nation, with the wealth distortion ... concentrated among the very people who are driving the economy as a whole. . . Several...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College

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03/15/2016

... opportunities, student and family pocketbooks, and the economy . Some people caution against giving too much ... to higher education financing too often leaves low- income students facing unexpected, and...

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Education

Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan

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09/21/2017

... years, discussing the challenges of growing the city’s economy while ensuring that New Yorkers are its ... $50,000 a year, promoting the middle class and reducing income inequality in the city. Some have...

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Workforce Development

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Communities Thrive Challenge Grantees

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12/05/2018

... not only generate returns but also spur good jobs for low- income workers? How might state and local governments ensure ...

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Community Development

Economic Security

What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

... dictates that independently verified and substantiated data be used. That can only be made possible with independent ... history is any indication, settlement funds no matter how big will never cover the full...

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Urban Farms and Gardens are Critical for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System

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03/31/2015

... the value of parks and community gardens as public resources and not merely as vacant land when assembling sites ... the City and stakeholders can be improved together through data collection and analysis. At...

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Food Systems

Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy

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09/29/2016

... economic prosperity depends on an expanding and inclusive economy which allows workers to earn a living that provides disposable income for investment in assets. Given our changing ... re-entry into society...

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Justice Reform

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CollegePoint, An Initiative Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Makes A Hard Decision Less Lonely

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08/15/2018

... assemble and calculations to make. After all that comes a big decision — one of the biggest of their young lives. For top students who come from low- income families, the challenge is particularly difficult...

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Education

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Verizon Foundation Supports National Survey of Americans’ Health App Use

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11/04/2015

... by those who download them. According to results of an online national survey analyzed by researchers at NYU Langone ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

Technology

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Verizon

US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... parents about safe sleep for newborns. Parents of any income level may apply for a free box, but only if they take a series of online educational courses—available in 10 languages—that ...

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How Can We Be Better Funders? Let's Do the Homework

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05/26/2021

I’ve spent most of my life as a bridge-builder and translator. As a nine-year-old, I translated for my immigrant Mom. Later I learned to speak the language of philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Financials

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TCC Group

Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

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08/27/2012

... supportive extended family, often on a single fellowship income , women were saying, “No, thanks.” In response, ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Rey Ramsey as Independent Trustee

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05/15/2017

... and networks will deepen our ability to use all of our resources – grantmaking and investments – to advance our ... TechNet, Ramsey served as founder, Chairman and CEO of One Economy Corporation, a nonprofit...

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