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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

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08/24/2016

... than three investment team members reviewing 80 companies for a year to close a single transaction. For -profit ... thousands of potential deals per year, but averages just 10 investments;...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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13 Jan 2010

Opening a Second Front Against the Dropout Epidemic

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... senior year – close to 50% in New York City. The U. S . currently ranks 18th for highschool graduation among the nations belonging to the ... their schools and communities through service-learning. It...

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31 Aug 2016

Hacking Immigration: Funding Technology for Advocates - Webinar

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1:00pm to 2:30pm

... how so many of us work, play, and interact. Yet the tools it offers are only beginning to be integrated into how we ... it holds enormous promise. While the Supreme Court’ s deadlock vote in...

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Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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07/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star And Creator ... The Broadway sensation Hamilton has been hailed not only for its outstanding performances, diverse cast and ingenious ... how we think...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’

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11/29/2016

Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’ s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’ David Kaiser, a ... in the New York Review of Books calling out ExxonMobil for “morally reprehensible conduct.” “ For...

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government' s big footprint in education policy, on everything from ... testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives big new leeway to...

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Sarah Williams and Ella Gudwin Share Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/20/2017

... stages – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it ’ s not always seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and ...

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Edgar Villanueva of Schott Foundation Says Less Than .3% of Funding Goes to Native Communities

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02/02/2017

... communities? Stephanie Chrispin, Philanthropy New York' s Public Policy Fellow, continues the conversation Invisible .....

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Doris Duke Supports Research That Discovered New T-Cell Subtype

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02/07/2017

... Harvard Medical School scientists from Brigham and Women’ s Hospital used new technologies that capacitate a minute ...

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National Geographic Launches Special On Gender Revolution

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02/08/2017

... on gender has never been louder and more pervasive than it is now, thanks to shifting cultural attitudes and social media as a platform for debate. In response to this phenomenon, National ... in New York last...

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Mellon Foundation Features Harlem Studio Museum Director on How Art Helps Us Understand Diversity

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02/23/2017

... Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society investigates how ...

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William Cordery at Surdna Foundation Talks About 'Delusional Altruism℠' In the Philanthropy World

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03/08/2017

After the PNY program, "Achieving Equity…How Exactly?" we sat with one of the panelists, William Cordery at Surdna Foundation, to discuss a concept presented by moderator Kris Putnam-Walkerly she calls "delusional altruism℠."

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Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic

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04/06/2017

Century Foundation' s Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’ s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was ... diversity need to look...

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Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11

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05/07/2014

... After 9/11 In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York' s 35th annual meeting, Farhana Khera , president & executive .....

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Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

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04/20/2017

... Foundation helped make that a reality. "With Tony' s shows, they're really popular among a whole gamut of ... people," Kye said. "There are different demographics, but for this film, I...

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Food Systems

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Rajiv Shah on Rockefeller Foundation Priorities, Multilateralism and Philanthropy

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04/20/2017

Amid a mood of global distrust toward institutions, philanthropic foundations must prioritize winning public confidence, including by partnering together and taking risks, said Rajiv Shah in some of his first public remarks since taking the helm of...

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Open Society Foundations: Central Asia at History’s Crossroads

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07/17/2017

... assumption is that if change is to come to Central Asia, it will come from the outside; indigenous civil society is ... This narrative is not fashioned out of whole cloth, but it still ignores the very real on...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

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10/17/2017

... food system if the world doesn’t eat more of what it has. In that spirit, two years ago the Rockefeller ... Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day ...

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to increase access to healthy and affordable foods and empower residents through urban farms and gardens, farmers markets, and other nutrition...

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