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F.B. Heron Foundation Funds Feasibility Study on Impact Investing in Western NY

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02/11/2015

... Foundation Funds Feasibility Study on Impact Investing in Western NY Western New York foundations and businesses ... growing the region. But is there enough opportunity in the region to generate interest and...

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... nonprofit, financial institutions that provide loans in underserved communities. The loans they make benefit ... funds have a 30+ year track record of successfully lending in underserved areas, investors and...

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Ten New York Nonprofits Selected as Semifinalists of 2015 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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08/04/2015

... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Ten nonprofit groups in three New York City boroughs and Westchester have been ... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The groups are in the running to win $60,000 in...

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The New York Community Trust

Eva Moskowitz, Practiced de Blasio foe, Weighs a Mayoral Challenge

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09/14/2015

... de Blasio foe, Weighs a Mayoral Challenge Back in May, Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz delivered a campaign-style speech to hundreds of the city' s wealthiest business leaders. "I...

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How Mobile Games Can Help You Identify Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation)

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03/28/2016

... kids that video games would help them land the right job in the future. But the exponential growth of technology ... skills, abilities, and intelligence do not come through in traditional hiring processes...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... Across the City and Nation Forty-five nonprofits in New York City and beyond just got great news: The New York Community Trust, the city’ s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in...

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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

F.B. Heron' s Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand ... maximum profits” (investment side) as embodied in most foundations is mirrored in society: poverty is made ... whole...

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Judith Rodin Steps Down as Head of Rockefeller Foundation

Release Date:

06/16/2016

... Karp, chief executive of Silicon Valley’ s Palantir Technologies Inc. Ms. Rodin praised Mr. Karp for ... her, according to Ms. Rodin, since it also could be a new business for the company... Judith Rodin Steps...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... companies that don't provide traditional pensions, 401(k) s or access to individual retirement accounts. At least 1.5 million of these workers are in the nation’ s largest city,...

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Economic Security

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... the end of last year, Soros declared that the world' s “collective failure” to help the tens of millions of ... The hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in private investment capital to “invest...

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Immigration

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

Release Date:

02/28/2017

... and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U. S . to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive The American ... diplomacy, there is an emerging consensus among leaders in...

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

Release Date:

04/25/2017

... Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’ s Economy Billions Each Year Long Island’ s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 alone were it not for racial...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Report Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education

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05/26/2017

... Report Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education Although many African-American community leaders believe inequities in public education are a critical problem, many also are .....

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard' s Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The ... and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights faster. Less has been written about ... Mastercard, which...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... today, we think of the MacDowell Colony, in the woods of New Hampshire, and of the Skowhegan School, in Maine. There’ s the Rome Prize fellowship, at the city’ s American...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... Of those, 290 million men, women, and children are in India, unable to power their homes, livelihoods, and their dreams. Access to energy is a critical first step in powering basic needs such as clean water,...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth In an effort to reduce youth unemployment in cities through first jobs, internships, business training and leadership development, Citi...

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Citi Foundation

Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy

Release Date:

09/25/2017

Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and ... Facebook stock traded at $170.54 a share at the close of business Friday. At that price, the...

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Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates

Release Date:

04/06/2018

... Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates Each person’ s death gives us a moment to pause and ask what lessons their ... Pete Peterson played large on the national stage, in business ,...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Michael R. Bloomberg Partners with Commissioner Arias Cañete to Support European Transition from Coal Power

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09/18/2018

... Cañete announce a new partnership to step up Europe’ s clean energy ambitions. Together Bloomberg Philanthropies ... Commission will convene leaders from the financial and business sectors to further develop...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

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