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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... available to us now remain underutilized—especially in the land sector , which currently accounts for nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, new research shows that stewardship...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... innovative partnerships between the city and the private sector . She's also part of the broader story of New Orleans' recovery: as smart investments in public infrastructure and housing have...

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Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

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11/20/2017

... the philanthropic and for-profit sectors. She joined Heron in 2006 and has been responsible for deal-sourcing, ... Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith. Bezerra has been active in the leadership of several national...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

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03/13/2018

... join and leverage a chorus of philanthropic and private sector investors changing the landscape for investing and the ... a growing number of foundations aligning their investments in companies and strategies...

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MasterCard Foundation Commits 100 million to Projects Within Its Young Africa Works Strategy

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04/16/2018

... bulge—or time bomb, some warn—of people coming of age in places without enough economic opportunity, a trend that ... But nowhere are things playing out more dramatically than in Africa, where the population...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Names Julie Fernandes Associate Director for Institutional Accountability and Individual Liberty

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07/02/2018

... advocacy-based philanthropy, having held key positions in government, including the White House and the Justice Department, the advocacy community, and in philanthropy. Most recently, Julie served as the Open...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

... - continues its expansion as the fastest growing food sector . New research shows that in order for this next generation of farmers to thrive, there ... and bivalves (e.g., oysters), around the world. Published...

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Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist

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09/13/2018

... 1,000 applicants and led to over $7 million of investment in early-stage and scale-up projects to improve the way data ... “Tariq brings a unique combination of expertise in data and tech, longstanding...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $6 Million to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In-Demand Jobs

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12/06/2018

... to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In -Demand Jobs JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $6 ... and help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in the Greater Washington region. As...

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JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges

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03/19/2019

... JPMorgan's pledge appears to contain a mix of investments in new and existing programs. Meanwhile, other private- sector players are developing curriculum for community ... proposing Pell Grant...

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Michael Bloomberg Announces Midwestern Collegiate Climate Summit

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05/16/2019

... The Midwestern Collegiate Climate Summit will be held in early 2020, bringing together leaders from Midwestern universities, local government and the private sector to drive measurable, local action on climate...

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With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant

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06/11/2019

... gas emissions by using natural and working lands in the United States. The program's steering committee approved the first five grants in the fall of 2018 and plans to complete two additional ... energy...

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Elon University Joins Multi-campus Collaborative Initiative Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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06/20/2019

... Elon University has been selected to participate in a collaborative, community-based humanities and civic ... life. Elon is one of five colleges and universities in North Carolina to participate in...

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Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Announces Third Class of Mayors to Go Back to School

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07/15/2019

... mayors from around the world who will participate in the yearlong education and professional development ... joined Harvard faculty and renowned management experts in New York City this week for a 3-day,...

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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

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07/16/2019

... 16, 2019 — Liz Fowler, a leading health policy expert in both the public and private sectors, will join the ... President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson. In that role, she focused on health...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

... Finds Understanding how antibiotic scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics ... assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. “ In...

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Obama Foundation Announces Wally Adeyemo as President

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08/14/2019

... will join the organization as its first-ever President. In this role, Adeyemo will work closely with current ... the next generation of leaders making positive change in their communities. “Wally is the ideal...

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Arabella Advisors Named Among the Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America

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10/01/2019

... Advisors Named Among the Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America Today, Entrepreneur magazine named Arabella ... to its list of the "Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America." The announcement...

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Kimberly Walker Appointed as First Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Arabella Advisors

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03/11/2020

... the capacity of Arabella employees and teams to engage in equity-related work. She has previously served the firm as ... change. “I’m so excited to be working with Arabella in this new capacity and in...

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