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Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

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09/06/2016

... temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices. ... Establishing new strategies is particularly difficult for sorghum farmers in West Africa...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store ... cities leveraging data in the same way to improve services...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Community Development

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Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years

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06/13/2017

... Columbia University’s 2017 Age Boom Academy program for journalists, Exploring Inequities in Health, Work and ... learned how difficult (if not impossible) that can be for many of them. But I also learned from...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Aging

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Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive

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08/24/2017

... distributing life-changing products by having the poor pay for them. To attract customers, they usually start with mild ... these attempts fail to get the job done—as they often do —they revert to active...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers? In New York City’s breakneck effort to ... their impact on student achievement. “The question for us is, ‘How do we...

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Education

New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff

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09/20/2017

... Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us ... interpretation of what globalization—and resistance to it —is doing to our conscience and our...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

... announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies ... them enroll in coverage is not only the right thing to do , it ’s the...

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Health

Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country “Trust black women!” “Who do you serve? Who do you protect?” “Puerto Rico is part ... The two separate but closely-...

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Gender Justice

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new ... The study found that when CEOs choose to invest in CSR, it changes the likelihood they...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... and businesses by doing what a bank is supposed to do : lending and investing. This long-term investment, which ... in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. employees, make...

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Economic Security

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Funds New Medical School Curriculum

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05/01/2018

... “We are excited to be recognized by the Macy Foundation for the work we are doing,” said Heritage College, ...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Education

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For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together

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05/30/2017

For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work ... family members have governed the foundation, ensuring it continues to be guided by the values and principles of its ... question we are constantly...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Surdna Foundation

Nonprofit Resource Equity and Access: A Call to Close the Gap

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08/14/2018

... in the nonprofit funding world came into sharper relief for Nonprofit Finance Fund’s New York-based consulting team ... One nonprofit leader put her challenges this way: It is ever more challenging to bring...

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Nonprofit Finance Fund

Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

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05/05/2020

... power. How is a regional foundation to tap so much force? For us it took time—almost two decades, starting with our decision ... have solved the problem? we asked, and how did they do...

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Community Development

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Annie E. Casey Foundation and TCC Group Collaborate on Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from a National Foundation

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10/26/2021

... Group Collaborate on Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from a National Foundation Family funders ... genuine community partnerships by taking an approach it calls “strategic co-investing.”...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Kolibri Foundation Publishes Statement of Evolution & Commitment

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12/01/2021

... as members of our Board of Directors. We’re grateful for the ways we have been able to build trust and a shared ... the co-founder of Blackbird and helped build the Movement for Black Lives. Thenjiwe has more...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

... Late Monday night, in a stunning development for a struggling business, that’s pretty close to what the ... publications, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly. com , reported that they would become. Philly...

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Communications/Media

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

A short documentary series created by Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a behind- the-scenes look at how four cities are using temporary public art projects.

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