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Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director Robert Garris Heads to Schwarzman Scholars

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08/27/2014

Robert Garris, former managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation, is the new Global Director of Admissions at Schwarzman Scholars.

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Comparing Spending Down and Perpetuity - Should Charity Go on Forever?

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10/09/2014

The strategic process ofprominent foundations, such as Atlantic Philanthropies and Carnegie Corporation, are examined to outline the major differences in spending down and perpetuity.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Tiffany & Co. Names Anisa Kamadoli Costa Chief Sustainability Officer

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04/10/2015

Costa will retain her position as chairman and president of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation.

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Community Development

Food Systems

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MetLife Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Raise Awareness about Financial Inclusion

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09/10/2015

The Financial Inclusion Challenge recognized four organizations for their innovative approach to financial inclusion.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Community Development

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

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10/20/2015

Data shows that after a decade of progress, more needs to be done to reduce traffic fatalities, according to The Global Status Report on Road Safety.

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Health

Public Policy

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Aetna Foundation President Writes on Turning the Clock Forward on Health Disparities, City Block by City Block

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10/20/2015

Dr. Garth Graham, president, Aetna Foundation and former deputy assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, writes about the gap between health of citizens, depending on where they live.

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Health

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Lawmakers Respond to Century Foundation's "Covert For-Profit" Report, Ask for Immediate Action

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10/28/2015

Seven U.S. senators sent a letter to Department of Education secretary Arne Duncan and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen urging them to take swift action against possibly fraudulent for-profit education companies.

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Education

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Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

The new barriers to economic stability and upward mobility are not trivial. Recent data show that wages are stagnant for a wide swath of earners, annual income volatility has risen markedly since the 1970s, economic mobility varies widely, wealth...

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Economic Security

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The Robert Bowne Foundation Spends Down

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01/15/2016

For the Robert Bowne Foundation, the loss of over one-third of its funds forced it to consider spending down its remaining assets.

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Ford, Rockefeller Offer Templates for Guiding CEO Transitions at Big Foundations

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03/07/2017

In a relatively short period of time, there have been some high-level changes at important philanthropy organizations, leading to questions of both why this is occurring, and what’s involved today with managing a CEO or president transition at a...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

Two Google veterans have developed a convenience concept called Bodega that they’ve been testing in 30 San Francisco-area locations and now want to roll out to other markets, according to Fast Company. Bodega is a five-foot-wide pantry box filled...

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Food Systems

Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its $12.1 billion endowment, saying it generated a return of 7 percent in 2016. By comparison, the median return of more than 5,700 foundations that...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation partnered with The Nature Conservancy to bring together more than two-dozen expert scientists specializing in conservation, climate modeling, and economists from a variety of global institutions to explore nature’s...

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Environment and Climate Change

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

Mr. Rockefeller, who gave away $20 million to $30 million a year in the last 10 years of his long life, found another way to use philanthropy to make a difference — a big difference, if the sales at Christie’s bring in the $700 million that some...

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