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MetLife Foundation Partners with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to Help Financial Service Providers Better Serve Low-Income Clients

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06/05/2015

... in Colombia, SAJIDA Foundation in Bangladesh and Capital Aid Fund for Employment of the Poor (CEP) in Vietnam. OPTIX will ... build and strengthen a full suite of financial offerings for...

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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

... There is a growing realization that, along with government aid and charitable philanthropy, financial institutions can ... Ideally, impact investments delivers something good for humanity while generating a...

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Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College

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03/15/2016

... and dinner table conversations because of its implications for educational opportunities, student and family ... education, pointing out that the availability of financial aid means that college is not as...

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Education

The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to developing an arts and leadership program for children on the autism spectrum. At a...

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Arts

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... under the recently-established Office of Labor Standards. It will provide information and referrals through two ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... with the tools, skills, and support they need — most of it made freely available — to tackle the complex ... in mayors’ offices, create on-demand programming for participating cities, fund new research on...

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Education

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

... his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of Americans supported a ... a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to...

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To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

One of Michael Bloomberg's main contributions to the global fight against climate change has been to help mobilize cities to curb greenhouse gas emissions, improving the quality of life for ciitzens. Now, he is looking to do the same with improving...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion In this interview with the Business ... Giving, Shamina Singh, president of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, discusses how the credit-card company .....

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Economic Security

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... a Twitter chat on August 24 at 1 p.m. EDT with financial aid officers, policy experts and other key stakeholders. Use ...

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

... Texas are attracting millions of dollars in donations for relief efforts, much of it from corporate sources but also from tens of thousands of ... cost the region tens of billions of dollars, but private...

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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities I came to the United States when I ... here to join my parents, who had already been in the U.S. for years, having left our home...

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Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?

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09/08/2017

... president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and leveraging the foundation’s .....

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “ It ’s permanent until homelessness is solved.” So remarked ... Seattle headquarters will incorporate a shelter for homeless families. It...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. Noncommunicable diseases ... to tolerate them at tragically high levels.” Outcomes for NCD sufferers in LIMCs,...

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Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services

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09/28/2017

... City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services For most young people, turning 21 is ceremonious. It 's a rite of passage into adulthood celebrated with spirits ... shelters and move to single adult...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a ... political saga set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage was being...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... The survey asked the voters whether they supported what it called the "Soros Plan" — including the resettlement of ... 9 million Hungarian forint ($33,772) in mandatory state aid per immigrant... OSF...

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic. ... faces a unique battle, which is...

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