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When It Comes To Building Resilient Cities, Everyone Wants In

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06/24/2014

... from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller Foundation ' s 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, people from all walks of ... cities turn tragedy into opportunity. --People' s...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Joins Impact Investment Efforts

Release Date:

06/25/2014

... million endowment to targeted impact investments. The foundation ' s commitment was one of more than 20 new private sector ... social or environmental impact. Criteria for the RBF' s...

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

Release Date:

07/10/2014

Report Shows Link Between Children' s Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment Children ... of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child Development. Mother’...

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Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children

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07/09/2014

... Support To Feed More Children The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to ... efforts on having a positive impact on children’ s health to help children reach their full...

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Bloomberg Says His Work Is About "Saving Lives"

Release Date:

07/14/2014

... save lives." Adds Bloomberg: "Particularly, I want the foundation to focus on things that other people aren't .....

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Barnard Receives Mellon Grant for Digital Access Initiative

Release Date:

07/09/2014

... College has received $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a major new academic initiative: Barnard ... the International Center of Photography (ICP), Barnard’ s institutional partner for this...

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Wealthy Should Be Encouraged To Start Giving Sooner

Release Date:

07/18/2014

... away their money earlier in life "could prevent today’ s urgent problems from becoming larger, more entrenched, and ... yield successes and failures that offer lessons for one’ s future giving. Effective...

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Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge

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07/22/2014

... Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation , in a post on the SSIR blog. Under the ...

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

Release Date:

08/01/2014

... James R. Knickman President & CEO, New York State Health Foundation , in the Huffington Post. As the state moves ahead ...

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Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

Release Date:

08/06/2014

... Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’ s Sanford School of Public Policy A version of this post ... spending down.” In no time, a couple of old friends and foundation -watchers wrote me to ask, “...

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Insights

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09 Oct 2014

Mission and Impact Investing: Overcoming Resistance and Getting Started - Webinar

Thursday, October 9, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... Presenter John Hawkins , Consultant; Board Member, Surdna Foundation Designed for All interested PNY members. ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards €14.7 Million For Dementia Care

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08/14/2014

... and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthrophies, said that the foundation ’ s final grants, in Ireland and elsewhere, are targeted at ...

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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

Release Date:

09/08/2014

... too — what and how students are learning. The Wallace Foundation has offered six urban school districts $75 million ...

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Open Society’s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List

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09/16/2014

Open Society’ s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List Darrell West' s Global Billionaires Political Power Index is a ranking of ... behind the scenes influence.... Open...

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Russell Sage Study Shows Average Americans Get Poorer as Per Capita Wealth Reaches New High

Release Date:

10/01/2014

... as a whole is getting wealthier, the average American’ s share of those assets is declining. Despite a near doubling ... in America over the past ten years, the typical American’ s net worth has actually...

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SIFMA Funded Programs Provide Financial Literacy to Millions of Students

Release Date:

10/02/2014

... Many investors today are financially illiterate. That’ s right, illiterate. Defined as “having or showing a lack ... about a particular subject.” For 37 years, the SIFMA Foundation has sponsored one of the...

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Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice

Release Date:

10/09/2014

... racial justice among Baptists. The grant from the Arcus Foundation , a charity that supports organizations that ...

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NoVo Co-President Peter Buffett Uses New Notoriety to Champion Women and Girls Around the World

Release Date:

10/10/2014

... Peter and his wife, Jennifer, run the now $3 billion NoVo Foundation , dedicated to helping women and girls around the ... progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It’ s when no 13-year-old girl on the...

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Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters

Release Date:

10/29/2014

Philanthropy’ s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from ... were in New York and New Jersey – the storm’ s destruction has been well documented. A full recovery for ... vital needs in hard hit...

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Philanthropy New York

PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care

Release Date:

10/30/2014

... even though research shows these are some of the nation' s most isolated seniors. Fortunately, a number of ... issue, as does Haas. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation also has a deep commitment to...

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