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Health at A Planetary Scale

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... years ago, there were about 1 billion of us; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed vast amounts of energy, cleared countless ... reconfigured entire coastlines and built vast cities. ...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... with Maryn McKenna In her 2015 TED Talk, “What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore?” journalist ... tells the audience, didn’t die of the lifestyle diseases we do now, but of simple injuries that led...

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Food Systems

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... can play in a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 including our own research,2 for which we studied hundreds of social change initiatives over ... society...

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Pound Foolish

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... defined their challenge as lack of food. In response, we have collected large quantities—including junk ... by pounds of output. While bellies have been filled, we have missed a real opportunity to improve the...

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Food Systems

New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty

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10/02/2017

... said Mayor Byron W. Brown. "The collaborative plan that we have put in place in the city is helping to reduce poverty ... is working. Childhood poverty is still much higher than we would like to see and...

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... statement in response to the Alabama Special Election: “ We are proud of the people of Alabama for refusing to be ... they suffered as children: thank you for your courage. We will continue to speak up...

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

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03/16/2018

... here in Ohio, particularly for our newest immigrants, we can expedite their ability to positively contribute to ... 'By improving language, legal, and healthcare services, we can help immigrants...

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Immigration

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The Prudential Foundation Honors Teen for Efforts to End Gun Violence

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05/01/2018

... to End Gun Violence Brandon Warren, who launched the We LIVE Indy movement to address youth violence in ... of his choice. In his case, that nonprofit will be We LIVE, he said by phone Monday evening. The...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Civic Engagement

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Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact

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06/20/2018

... company, and also as stewards of improving global health, we recognize at Pfizer the importance of working together ... around the world are able to access the medicines we develop," Roan said. “With that...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Johnson Family Foundation Welcomes New Executive Director

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08/06/2018

... served as Interim Executive Director for the past year. " We are excited to welcome Frank to help guide JFF’s future ... It is a pleasure to partner with both of them as we work toward our mutual goals...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

... by the diversity of this group of grant recipients, we work with a spectrum of artists, whose practices, backgrounds, and careers vary widely, but we hear consistently that day-to-day financial support—the...

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Rahima Nasa, Named First FRONTLINE Fellow of Tow Foundation Journalism Program

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02/06/2019

... projects combining text, visual, and data elements. “ We are so pleased to kick off the first year of our ... Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s executive producer. “ We ’re very grateful to The Tow Foundation for...

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Communications/Media

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

... Launches #Solvable Yes. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we believe some of the biggest challenges that limit the ... meaningfully improve lives. But expertise is not enough: we need to marshal the optimism that...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Welcomes New President, Dame Louise Richardson

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01/03/2023

... world, Carnegie Corporation of New York, at a time when we are still in the pandemic. You’ve had experience at the ... are many lessons from the pandemic. The first is that we cannot afford to ignore risks...

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Add the “A” and It’s Full STEAM Ahead for Girls

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10/30/2015

... provided 120 high school girls from across the U.S. and Africa with the opportunity to learn valuable skills in the ... AOL enhanced the program curriculum by leveraging its resources as a media technology...

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38th Annual Meeting Program

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06/2017

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Civic Engagement

Westchester Community Foundation Disbursed Millions in 2016

Release Date:

03/22/2016

... legacies to life. Transforming our communities.” “ We ’ve sharpened our message to better explain our value as ... Laura Rossi, the Foundation’s Executive Director. “ We care deeply about making Westchester a...

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PhilTV: "Giving Grants is Not Enough; The Question is 'Did You Make Things Better?'"

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09/30/2016

... Journal, for the recent program, “ Healthcare Crisis: Do We Have the Workforce Needed for Today and Tomorrow? ” to ... more on Storify: [ View the story "Healthcare Crisis: Do We Have the Workforce Needed...

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Health

Workforce Development

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New York State Health Foundation Among Health Legacy Foundations That Address Social Causes of Poor Health Outcomes

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12/07/2017

... and CEO Lawrence Burns explains the shift in strategy: “ We still consider Children’s a major partner and always will. However, since we are no longer a hospital foundation, we won’t be as...

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