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The Rockefeller Foundation and WFP Launch Initiative To Strengthen School Meals for Millions of Children

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01/18/2023

... – The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes a US $ 10.7 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to ... improving health, nutrition and education in vulnerable communities . However, countries often...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

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06/19/2014

... South Asia. “By responsibly and ethically employing hundreds of thousands of people, BPOs have a role to play in ...

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

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11/10/2014

... city, to help rescue Detroit from bankruptcy by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to spare retirees from deeper ...

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Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows

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04/08/2016

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.

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Ford's Walker Included in New Class of Disrupters Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse

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08/01/2016

... of trustees are expected to donate (or at least raise) hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And until 1980, ...

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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

... the state’s death row. Over the decades, it has handled hundreds of capital cases, and has spared 125 offenders from ...

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Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info

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11/22/2016

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities (WWC) is a national initiative to help a hundred-plus mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA).

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Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds

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05/04/2017

... girls aged between 12 and 14 are living in "early unions." Hundreds of thousands of young girls in Mexico are being .....

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More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

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07/28/2017

... on mitigating global warming. That move has galvanized hundreds of cities — of all sizes — to pledge action... ...

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

... service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit ...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

... Greenpoint Hospital — shuttered since 1982 — into hundreds of units of affordable housing, Mayor de Blasio will ...

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EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications

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09/05/2017

... of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes ...

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issues Report on Undercount of Young Kids in 2020 Census

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06/29/2018

... child well-being over the next decade by putting at risk hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding for ...

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This Is Not A Normal Grant Cycle Or A Time To Wait And See

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02/21/2017

... record as a donor, or the legacy you are pursuing, find resources to give to organizations engaging on the issues in ... people and places most in need. 3. Get political Many of us gave generously to...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces New CEO

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11/06/2015

... and then as an executive vice president with Integrated Resources . She joined JPMorgan Chase in 1994, where she spent ... NYC Commission on Women's Issues and the United Way of NY Resources Committee, and...

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PNY Calls on de Blasio Administration to Ensure Support of Nonprofit Organizations

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03/16/2020

... are deployed above and beyond normal capacity while their resources remain flat or even decrease. Essential community ... will be asking for flexibility in contracts and additional resources . We are also...

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Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

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02/23/2016

... differences among this large, representative group is hard . The challenge: Setting individual interests aside to ... efforts. Developing a blueprint for culturally healthy communities , including culturally-...

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Wallace Foundation Supported Research Finds 'Principal Pipelines' to Develop School Leaders May Be Affordable Way to Improve Schools

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06/22/2017

... there has been little information about what level of resources would be required to do so. RAND's report fills ... likely prioritize developing better principals with the resources they have now,'...

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