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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

Release Date:

05/31/2016

While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.

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Economic Security

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Bank of America Private Bank

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

Release Date:

07/28/2016

... Power Ltd. to expand renewable energy in Africa. The investment was part of an $117.5 million funding round ... International Finance Corp. and other backers. The investment will help finance as much as $1.9...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

... foundations, such as evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of ...

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

Release Date:

02/01/2017

... hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in private investment capital to “invest in startups, established ...

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Immigration

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

Release Date:

08/01/2017

... by Helen Altschul and Frank Altschul, who was a New York investment banker, and now led by a board of of third- and ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Overbrook Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

Release Date:

11/28/2017

... initiatives. Impact Shares is a nonprofit ETF issuer and investment manager, which says its mission is to "build a .....

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation

How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks 'to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that build .....

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Civic Engagement

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Propel Capital

Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

Release Date:

02/21/2018

The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to...

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Ford Foundation

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

Release Date:

11/29/2018

Foundation launches 'Teen Opinions Count' project to help inform future investments in afterschool programs.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

2/17/2016 - "Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals" Live Stream Recording & PPT Presentation

Publication date:

02/2016

View materials and recording of the program "Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals."

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Audio/Video Recording

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... impact of changes three years in to the WHO’s Decade of Action on Road Safety and to highlight where more action is needed. For additional information on today’s ...

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Health

International/Foreign Affairs

Public Policy

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?

Release Date:

02/10/2016

... If any of the groups we engage with regularly could take action to improve population health based on evidence and ...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Rockefeller President Cleared After Review Triggered by Employee Complaint

Release Date:

06/22/2018

... findings, Parsons said. "There was no disciplinary action taken, and there was no basis for taking any disciplinary action ," Parsons said. "Virtually all the charges, if you .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown

Release Date:

03/28/2013

An op-ed by Elizabeth Good Christopherson, President and CEO of the Rita Allen Foundation, in anticipation of the May 2013 Ashoka Future Forum in Washington, D.C.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rita Allen Foundation

22 Feb 2013

TDA Plan Administrators' Annual Meeting: Philanthropy New York's 403(b) Tax-Deferred Annuity Retirement Program

Friday, February 22, 2013 -

8:15am to 11:00am

... plan administrators, with representatives from Diversified Investment Advisors and American Funds, our pension plan ...

Making IT Decisions

Publication date:

12/2012

... needs and capacity and maximize your return on investment . Guli Basu, Information Services Operations ...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Information Technology

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2013

... implementing a grantmaking strategy of large, long-term investment in the capacity and proof points of nonprofits ...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

JPMorgan to Commit $100-Million to Boost Detroit’s Recovery

Release Date:

05/21/2014

Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase will commit $100-million in grants and loans over five years to aid Detroit’s revitalization effort as the city recovers from the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy, The New York Times and the Detroit Free Press...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

MetLife Releases New Corporate Responsibility Report

Release Date:

09/25/2014

MetLife Inc.'s new corporate responsibility Report outlines the organization's corporate responsibility programs, including the MetLife Foundation, which commited $200 million of financial support in 2013.