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The Rockefeller Drug Laws: New Opportunities for Investment with a National Impact

Release Date:

04/02/2010

... wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, disrupted communities through mass incarceration, and institutionalized racial ... highest rates of incarceration. Strategic grantmaking for research in this area will...

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Insights

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All Funders

Heads Up: These Tax Reform Proposals Could Help or Hurt Nonprofits

Release Date:

08/16/2017

... the failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act , leaders of the U.S. House and Senate are even more ... by $4.8 billion. According to Independent Sector research , expanding the charitable deduction...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss

Release Date:

01/15/2015

... years, millions of Indians have been lifted out of poverty through government innovation in agricultural products, ...

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Insights

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

$1.6M in Grants from NY Women’s Foundation Focus on Economic Security and Justice

Release Date:

01/19/2017

... community engagement, mobilization, and systemic change. Through key investment strategies, The Foundation is working ...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Schendler & Haynes: Finally, ski resorts wake up to warming

Release Date:

09/05/2013

... years, humanity is flirting with disaster. But now there's evidence that some of those who have the most to lose are .....

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

01 May 2014

E-TEAM - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, May 1, 2014 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... of human rights abuse surface, the E-Team uncovers crucial evidence to determine if further investigation is warranted ...

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Issue-Based

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International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy

Release Date:

05/12/2014

The Importance of Criticizing Philanthropy, an article featuring the Rockefeller Foundation in The Atlantic.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Boards as an Accountability Mechanism

Publication date:

06/2014

... and broader conceptions of accountability, and empirical evidence from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute ...

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Report

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Board & Trustees

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Governance

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

Release Date:

04/03/2015

The goal of the initiative is to build civic literacy and engagement.

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Education

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Technology

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Rita Allen Foundation

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

Release Date:

05/05/2015

... think tank, The Century Foundation, argues recent evidence shows there is "much less (upward) mobility in the .....

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Member News

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

Ford’s Walker Weighs in on New Rules Allowing Pension Funds to Invest with Conscience

Release Date:

10/22/2015

... fund beneficiaries and society at large. A growing body of evidence shows that these factors directly and significantly ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

Release Date:

08/12/2016

... at the Century Foundation who has written extensively on evidence of for-profits looking to skirt regulatory ...

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Member News

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems

Release Date:

02/09/2017

... report, The Resilience of America's Urban Food Systems: Evidence From Five Cities (71 pages, PDF), found that key .....

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Member News

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative

Release Date:

05/18/2017

... the fight against NCDs and injuries by implementing evidence -based policies that reduce exposure to risk factors, ...

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Member News

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... below that level for four straight months, without obvious evidence of overheating. . . Unemployment’s Steady Fall ...

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Sector News

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Economic Security

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

Release Date:

08/29/2017

Racism is at play when only 1% of humanitarian relief funds reach national or local organisations responding to earthquakes in Haiti or in Nepal, or fighting Ebola in west Africa, and when only 2% of humanitarian assistance overall goes to those...