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At Age 100, Rockefeller Targets Africa's Growing Cities

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10/15/2014

... a small portion of the population owns a lion's share the resources . Around the world, countries have been ... cities with the ability to be resilient. When we talk about resilience, it's not just in...

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... cities and villages, bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning might have prevented ... more crowded and urban, with an increasing scarcity of resources and less predictable...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bronfman Cultivates Programs for Next Generation Donors

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08/20/2015

... understood that next generations would have new ideas about Jewish life and new energy to contribute to it. One ... next generation donors to bring their own ideas and resources to bear on the Jewish world...

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F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact

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06/10/2016

... to foundation philanthropy. With that in mind, we set about to build and test a foundation that might better suit ... of operating model might we build if we focus all of our resources on achieving our mission...

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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

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09/28/2016

... allowing further complacency by those with the power and resources to do something about it. As one leader said, “The New Orleans community ...

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Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role

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02/14/2017

... in the room (operations, communications, finance, human resources , administration, and program), it helped that we ... In this interview, Nicole Thomas of Citi Foundation, talks about how she is re-thinking...

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NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

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09/20/2017

... since we believe in organizations making their own choices about how they spend their resources to advance their mission. But in this case, the ...

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Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

... to investigate how to more effectively apply their resources toward large societal problems like education, ... the impetus behind their effort. “Foundations talk about wanting to help catalyze systems change...

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Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution

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09/28/2017

... biggest impact is to convince New Yorkers to care about the natural resource that surrounds us: water," he .....

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The North Star Fund Welcomes Kellie Terry as the new Philanthropy Programs Director

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05/02/2022

... donors and funders towards shifting real power and resources to movements. Kellie is a longtime organizer and ...

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A Nobel Prize For The Voluntary Sector

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11/15/2009

... Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York A few words about a recent Nobel Prize and its relevance to philanthropy. ... to manage “the commons”: common property and resources . The conventional wisdom is...

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Carnegie Corp.’s Academic Leadership Award Recognizes Seven University Presidents

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09/12/2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York today named seven exceptional American college and university presidents as recipients of its Academic Leadership Award. The honor consists of $500,000 in support for each winner’s academic initiatives.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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How the Rockefeller Auction is Leaving an Inspirational Legacy

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05/08/2018

The auction is estimated to bring in a record-breaking $1 billion, specifically endowing a select number of charities.

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Black Girls Play Secures Three-Year Funding from Novo Foundation

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03/06/2019

... the recording studio at Zoo Labs in Oakland, learning about the ins and outs of the music recording process. "It ... Play ensemble, and learn firsthand from industry mentors about various aspects of the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Lack of Diversity Hurts Science: Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Is Changing That

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06/10/2019

... snot. She uses that as the entry point for a conversation about the building blocks of life. Lack of diversity hurts ... diversity in wildlife science can limit what we learn about the biodiversity of the...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Welcomes Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez As New Program Officer

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04/17/2019

... racism and, over the next five years, will commit the full resources of the Foundation to the goal of engendering a ... movement in Florida and took part in co-founding the national United We Dream network...

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