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On Philanthropy: All Investing is Impact Investing (Rockefeller Brothers Fund, F.B. Heron Foundation)

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01/04/2016

... (Rockefeller Brothers Fund, F.B. Heron Foundation) In the United States , nearly $1 trillion is committed to ... donations for the public good. The great majority of those resources...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

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07/03/2017

... FJS after ten years as the executive director of Mama Cash in the Netherlands, where she oversaw one of the world’s ... leader in philanthropic advocacy to ensure more and better resources...

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Foundation for a Just Society

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Social Justice

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Peterson-Kaiser Dashboard Provides Key Data on U.S. Health System Quality, Spending, Access, Outcomes

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05/25/2017

... key data measuring quality, spending, access and outcomes in the U.S. health system. Compiled by Kaiser Family ... that are similarly large and wealthy. It finds that the United States has...

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Health

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NoVo Foundation Launches Fourth Cycle of Move to End Violence

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11/15/2017

... Move to End Violence Today, the NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, has named 21 ... to ending violence against all girls and women in the United States...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

In Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund Awards Nearly $10 Million in Second Round of Grants

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07/02/2018

In Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy ... grants. Working to advance criminal justice reform in the United States , Gund auctioned off a prized work by Roy .....

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The Ford Foundation Takes Another Stand On Census

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10/19/2018

... explain the importance of the census data. The census is in trouble. Here’s why, and what you can do about it. The ... once every decade we tally how many people live in the United ...

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Census 2020

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National Center for Family Philanthropy Names New President and CEO, Nicholas Tedesco

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09/17/2019

... Directors announced today. He is only the second president in the organization’s history, succeeding the founder, ... the world’s largest database of family philanthropy resources and was the first to initiate...

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National Center for Family Philanthropy

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University of New Haven Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Education for Incarcerated Students

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04/15/2021

... (YPEI) at Dwight Hall at Yale for incarcerated students in Connecticut. YPEI and the University of New Haven are ... an innovative program that we believe will provide the resources and support for...

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Education

Justice Reform

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Mellon Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Fiona Kanagasingam as Inaugural Vice President, Equity and Culture

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04/28/2022

... has been named vice president, equity and culture. In this role, which is new to the Foundation, Kanagasingam ... Resource Exchange (CRE), New York City’s premier nonprofit consulting firm for groups fighting...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

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02/13/2017

Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age by Edgar Villanueva, vice president of ... challenges that we seek to resolve. Likewise, the private sector...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Funding Opportunity Program on the Future of Work

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01/15/2014

... research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately-skilled workers in the United States . We seek research proposals that will...

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation Funds Expansion of REACT to Film Educationl Programs

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10/08/2014

... mission of educating youth on critical social issues in the classroom through the medium of documentary film and ... children deserve an opportunity to become active citizens in society through quality...

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Arts

Communications/Media

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Understanding the Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in New York City

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9:00am to 12:00pm

The Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, NYC.

... Collaboration and innovation must be key ingredients in an effective equity change agenda focused on closing the ... of stakeholders from philanthropy, academia, the corporate sector , and practitioners,...

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Camilo Mendez Announced as Chief Financial Officer of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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01/28/2020

... Foundation president and CEO. “Camilo’s experience in finance and impact investing will help Dodge identify ... and sustainability of the Foundation’s financial resources to ensure future impact. Mendez...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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NYC losing small hospitals as money woes mount

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08/06/2013

... on the increasing closure of small, independent hospitals in New York quotes James Tallon, President of the United Hospital Fund. There was a time when the neighborhood ... treatment for a broken leg is...

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Health

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Names Four Renowned Leaders in Global Service, Academia, and Management to its Board of Directors

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01/15/2014

... honored to welcome back a founding board member, an expert in human needs investments, a pioneering sustainability expert and an authority in environmental issues with an entrepreneurial emphasis,” ... Barbara...

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Rockefeller Archive Center

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PhilTV: Do Money and Mission Mix? How Foundations Are Using Sustainable Investment to Address Climate Change

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05/31/2016

... potential of climate change to harm the economy in the long term. Fossil fuel companies are at risk because ... change would simply divest from fossil fuel companies, but in fact leading members of the...

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Impact Investing

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Environment and Climate Change

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Cornerstone Capital Group

PNY Officially Endorses Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice

... The Principles were developed by the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector in 2007 and updated in 2015 to reflect new circumstances in ...

Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows

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07/15/2020

... Nigeria, Palestine, St. Croix, Syria, Tlingít Aaní, the United States , and their respective diasporas, the fellows selected ... reckoning with systemic injustice magnifies inequities in our...

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