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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

The Roots of Today' s Giving Pledge The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for ... disgraced,” he now-famously wrote.... The Roots of Today' s Giving Pledge .....

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Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

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07/22/2014

... the National Employment Law Project, a leading workers’ rights advocacy organization.... Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Surdna Foundation

Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

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10/07/2014

... Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality It' s always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in ... legal across the United States, a trend that yesterday' s Supreme Court decision has...

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Arcus Foundation

Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... street protests. But as such things go, last month’ s march in New York City, which attracted some 400,000 people ... that curb climate change, was just that. Unlike civil- rights protests, which required real...

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Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions

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03/04/2015

... staffs and boards,” said Tom Finkelpearl, the city’ s commissioner of cultural affairs, whose department will ...

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WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

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03/04/2015

... Center Entertainment mogul David Geffen has won naming rights for one of the premier venues in classical music with ... be renamed David Geffen Hall in September. Mr. Geffen’ s $100 million gift is likely be a...

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

... Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U. S . Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the ... knows very little about these attacks. Neither the U. S . nor the Yemeni government has...

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Hess Named to 2015 Best Corporate Citizens List

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04/22/2015

... oil and gas company on Corporate Responsibility magazine’ s prestigious list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2015. ... as environment, climate change, employee relations, human rights , governance, finance,...

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools across ... and the Poverty &Race Research Action Council, a civil rights organization. “But a lot...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the nation’ s second biggest philanthropy. Not only will Ford direct ... operating support to 40 percent of the foundation’ s grant-making budget, projected to be...

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Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules

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08/20/2015

... of the national average. Supporters say the exchange’ s 2.1 million enrollees are proof positive that the law is ... impact on the bottom lines of nearly all of New York’ s nonprofit regional health plans,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches Redesigned Carnegie.Org

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09/22/2015

... knowledge about important issues of our times. Voting rights is one such issue, long a focus of the Corporation’ s Democracy program. Launching on the eve of National Voter ...

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Opinion: Health Reform Lives!

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11/23/2015

Opinion: Health Reform Lives! To the right’ s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and ... scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’ s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action

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06/24/2016

... On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action Thursday’ s Supreme Court decision upholding race as a factor in the ... ruling is being seen by many higher education and civil rights leaders as a jumping off...

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Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book

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06/29/2016

... first anniversary of the Stonewall riots for the world’ s first march for gay rights . From its modest, though ambitious, beginnings, the ... Kate Clinton and published in the wake of the historic U. S...

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

... On Death Row In 1989, a 29-year-old African-American civil- rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, ... legal representation to every inmate on the state’ s death row. Over the decades, it has...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

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02/16/2017

Commonwealth Fund' s President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What ... Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U. S . Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the U. S...

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NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’

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03/06/2017

... Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’ s Policies Of ‘Fear’ A Manhattan philanthropy is raising ... for New Yorkers under siege from President Trump’ s new policies. From legal assistance to...

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