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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Announces Five Projects for 2016 Green Neighborhoods Program

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10/12/2016

... The AGN grant program provides funding and educational resources to developers of affordable housing who are pursuing LEED for Neighborhood Development certification. The projects selected are...

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Housing and Homelessness

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Supports SDG Philanthropy Platform

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03/13/2017

... international development community, aiming to maximize resources through coordination and collaboration and to ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Hurricane Harvey Recovery Webinar: How Donors Can Help

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08/30/2017

... flooding in Texas and Louisiana, and how to allocate resources —human, financial, and technical—to meet the ...

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Disaster Relief

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The Center for Disaster Philanthropy

A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

... to spend and nonprofits seeking support. Such groups are also sometimes more willing to give to an array of causes ...

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04 Nov 2015

Dear Board...Are You Reading This?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... package information to get them to actually learn about what you want them to know to fulfill their advisory responsibility? What staff in the organization is best situated to produce ... IS FREE to all...

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

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01/15/2015

... including Africa, where small land-holders and others are acutely affected by poverty and food insecurity. ... and agriculture and farmer focused institutions. Here are some of the key takeaways and insights...

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Insights

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

11 Oct 2012

Avoiding Leaky Pipes: Enhancing Donor-Grantee Collaboration

Thursday, October 11, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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... times, it’s only natural for donors to want their scarce resources to be well spent. In reality, the pipeline that brings resources from donor to grantee is often leaky, limiting the ... donor-grantee...

Boutiques for the People

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09/27/2016

... quantitative and qualitative data thus far show that they are making a significant difference in the subsequent ... the good. At the same time, we should be clear-eyed about what we may have to sacrifice in...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

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09/23/2015

... Efforts Some of the world’s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term target on Wednesday of ... in a wave of commitments suggesting that corporations are becoming more serious about battling...

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An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

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02/22/2016

... industry employees live in poverty, most big restaurants are not great employers, and many still pay servers $2.13 an ...

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Economic Security

Food Systems

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Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

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09/06/2016

... farmers in West Africa where seed varieties and fertilizer are scarce, while drought and unpredictable rainfall are prevalent. “Climate change will impact both natural and ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Food Systems

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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

... the education department and New York University are partnering to study whether that teacher training is doing the trick. One of the first studies of its kind of New ...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.

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Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

The two separate but closely-coordinated events, the March for Black Women (M4BW) and the March for Racial Justice (M4RJ) started at parks near the Capitol before converging to march together to the Department of Justice before descending on the...

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Gender Justice

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ... CEO has invested in CSR and the firm performs poorly, they are much more likely to be...

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