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18 May 2016

Can Failure Be a Success?: Dissecting the Rikers Social Impact Bond Experiment

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... works as its advocates say, philanthropy funds ideas and new models, social impact bonds finance testing and scaling ... programs that have been proven to work and save system resources . Does this experiment...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation: Seeking Brooklyn Youth for Paid Leadership Programs

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08/15/2017

... leadership programs at Brooklyn Community Foundation: New ! Reproduction Justice Activists As a project of ... to achieving racial justice and interested in moving resources to address the impact of racial...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Hispanics in Philanthropy COVID-19 Rapid Response Migration Fund- Funder Note

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03/18/2020

... help bring front-line migrant serving organizations the resources they need to develop and launch emergency ... overhead costs for organizations and staff. Need to launch new legal suits to protect the human...

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Disaster Relief

Why Impact Investing Is An Emerging Paradigm Shift In Philanthropy

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07/30/2013

An op-ed by Amy Bell, Executive Director and Head of Principal Investments for JPMorgan Chase’s Social Finance business unit.

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Meet the 15 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy

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03/05/2014

... philanthropy, bringing people together to mobilize huge resources for different causes. Too often, though, the quiet ...

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The Simons Foundation

NoVo Foundation

OSF Backed Nonprofit Helping India Move to a Low-Carbon Energy Economy

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11/03/2014

... goals as well as development needs with finite financial resources , moving to a low-carbon economy can help it ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Open Society Foundations

How The Atlantic Philanthropies Changed Lives Through Building

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05/18/2015

... Changed Lives Through Building Imagine having the resources to build something that can dramatically alter the ...

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Community Development

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and Educational Development Opportunities

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06/30/2015

... working to connect individuals in our community to the resources they need to lead financially stable lives....” ...

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Community Development

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Pfizer and UICC Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

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10/14/2015

... announced the recipients from the Seeding Progress and Resources for the Cancer Community: Metastatic Breast Cancer ...

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Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

This offering is just one step of many we are taking to recalibrate your understanding of nurses to the reality of who we really are.

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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Conversation on Flood Resilience

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04/14/2016

... Challenge Water Window. With the variability of water resources only set to increase with climate change, the risk ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Elmezzi Foundation Supports Population Health Management Program at Mount Sinai Queens

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05/17/2016

Mount Sinai Queens strives to increase vital preventative and supportive services extending beyond the hospital and clinic walls to patients who are at risk for medical, behavioral or social health stressors.

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Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience

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08/26/2016

Fred Boltz, managing director and member of the leadership team at The Rockefeller Foundation, advocates building the reality of floods, droughts, and coastal storms into design, planning and investment practice.

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Disaster Relief

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Century Foundation Report Maps the Effects of a $15 Minimum Wage on Food Insecurity

Release Date:

09/01/2016

... Around 17.4 million American families report inadequate resources to provide enough food to keep all members healthy ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy

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09/16/2016

... documents and specific investment information can serve as resources for other institutions who are looking to do the ...

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Bloomberg Awards $10 Million for Women Coffee Farmers in Africa

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09/23/2016

... Rwandan women coffee farmers, connects women farmers to resources and global markets so they can meet the ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

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10/19/2016

... flying. NGOs working in these regions attempting to get resources to where they’re needed are often met with a ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Funds Projects That Urge Journalists to Link Weather and Climate Change

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11/08/2016

... report on the carbon pollution. And there are a number of resources to help them, including the World Weather ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... we fund to focus on short-term projects, to spend valuable resources accounting for how they use our support, and to ...

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Funded by Teagle Foundation, Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum

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01/26/2017

Based on hundreds of interviews with faculty members, students and alumni at various stages of their lives, the project has gathered a wealth of evidence showing that the habits of critical analysis, complex thinking and self-reflection cultivated...

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