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Deutsche Bank, MetLife, Prudential and Posner-Wallace Join Forces for Capital Consortium Fund

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03/17/2015

... part of its family of social impact funds first launched in 2005. With a list of investors including Church Pension ... the ECC will provide debt financing to social enterprises in the energy, health and Base...

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Workforce Development

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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... Initiative One of the biggest questions today in the sector commonly and somewhat misleadingly known as “the ... Audiences for orchestras, opera, dance and theater are in a gradual declining...

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Arts

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Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology

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06/17/2015

Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology The Obama administration on Tuesday announced $4 billion in commitments from the private sector , including more than $1 billion from...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

NYCT Grant Will Build Capacity for Child Welfare

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07/02/2015

... quality of care and save costs for the child welfare sector by identifying and sharing proven practices. CCF was formed to respond to many changes in New York’s Medicaid system. Experts agree that children...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

... November 24, and the winning cities will be announced in April 2016. Each city in the 100RC network receives financial and logistical ... for leading its resilience efforts; technical assistance in...

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

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New York Community Trust to Collaborate with NCRP's Philamplify to Assess Community Foundations

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09/09/2015

... with NCRP's Philamplify to Assess Community Foundations In preparation, we’ve spent the past ten months adapting ... assess community foundations, incorporating input from 20 sector experts and field...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models The White House ... Tuesday that it has gathered more than $375 million in public and private financing to be channeled into projects...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in socially responsible investing. Just as the formation of ... industry ushered a new approach to funding the private sector , impact investing is...

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Former NYC Official & Former Philadelphia Mayor Named 'What Works Cities' Senior Fellows (Bloomberg)

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02/08/2016

... Senior Fellows, providing expert guidance to city leaders in participating What Works Cities as they expand their use ... movement focused on utilizing what works practices in government decision-making...

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Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation) I recently ... She noted that there was a $200 trillion funding gap in dealing with the problems in the developing...

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NoVo and Ms. Foundations Support Grantmakers for Girls of Color Funders Convening

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03/02/2016

... will host a national convening of funders on May 19 in New York City to begin an exploration of the challenges ... and articulate a shared vision to shift the philanthropic sector . Learn about the Grantmakers...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

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07/07/2016

... $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global ... and encourage the use of resilient building practices in New York City, and to foster a...

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Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to Help Halve Food Loss by 2030

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02/07/2017

... Help Halve Food Loss by 2030 Local and global stakeholders in the Nigerian tomato value chain met late last year for the ... of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. The loss in Nigeria is staggering...

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Food Systems

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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration

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02/03/2017

... Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration For weeks, Donald Trump ran his presidential transition out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. Now that he has been sworn ...

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

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05/10/2017

... to expand access to middle-skill jobs for young people in the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's five-year, $75 ... effort will connect career and technical education schools in the South Bronx to New...

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Workforce Development

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NYS Health Foundation Co-Authors Column on Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services

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06/01/2017

... The critical contributions of immigrants are felt in every corner of the five boroughs: immigrants are just ... and immigrant communities pay over $10 billion in property and income taxes a year, while...

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New York Health Foundation

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... divestment movement. Many of these early adopters are, in fact, working on a meta level, trying to change how the ... Overbrook is a progressive family foundation started in 1948 by Helen Altschul and Frank...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 ... three distinct roles played by those who participate ...

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