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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names Ian H. Solomon President and CEO
Ian Solomon is currently the dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $285 Million to Help Clean Energy Scale Fast Enough to Meet Surging Global Demand
As rising electricity use reshapes global energy markets, new support will help strengthen clean energy industries to power next era of global growth.
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Press Release: New Echelon Insights Survey Commissioned by Rockefeller Foundation: Most Americans Back Foreign Aid a Year After USAID’s End
A majority (54%) across the political spectrum remains favorable toward foreign aid a year after USAID's dismantlement, and 8 in 10 say the path forward is to reform and strengthen foreign aid — not eliminate it.
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Viewpoint: The Third Wave of American Philanthropy in Africa
According to Ben Hyman at Africa Jobs Fund, $5bn a year of new philanthropic capital may soon be coming to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Melinda French Gates Commits $215 Million to Women’s Health, Bringing Two-Year Total to Over $600 Million
The new funding includes $40 million to Co-Impact for an initiative embedding mental health support into maternal and primary care, particularly in Africa.
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Africa Jobs Fund Launched to Mobilise $100 Million Philanthropic Investment to Boost Workers’ Incomes
The AJF launches as a fund of Renaissance Philanthropy, the non-profit founded by former White House science advisors Tom Kalil and Kumar Garg to design and run time-bound, thesis-driven philanthropic funds led by field experts.
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Gates Foundation Ebola Response Funding Announcement
The Gates Foundation is committing an initial $15 million in emergency funding to support this response through trusted institutions already working on the ground.
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Grant Dependency is Undermining Global Development: Here’s a Fundamentally New Architecture for Funding NGOs
Across the Global South, NGOs often function as the default conduits for addressing key development challenges in remote and marginalized populations. But as long-time development sector advisor Rajat Ray argues, these systemic problems cannot be solved by organizations that are perpetually teetering on the edge of financial suffocation, propped up by short-term, project-based grants. He explains how the survival tactics NGOs adopt to navigate this funding dilemma end up warping their operations and perpetuating some of the sector's biggest shortcomings. In response, he proposes an entirely new funding model — the “Diminishing Grant Framework” — that treats self-reliance not as an aspiration, but as a mandatory financial milestone.
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