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Ex-Citi Chairman: Poor Communication To Blame For CEO Pay Fight

Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Vikram Pandit, Shareholders, Video, Dodd-Frank, Barney Frank, Reuters, Pay Packages, Richard Parsons, CEO Compensation, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, Rockefeller Foundation, Citigroup, Business News

* Ex-chairman says pay plan not explained well * Plan by board lost in advisory poll of shareholders * Barney Frank prai...

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Scars: The Complicated Making of Historic Moments and Progressive Philanthropy

Maxim Thorne | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Elie Wisel Foundation, LGBT Rights, Civil Rights, Jon Stryker, George Chauncey, Arcus Foundation, Jane Mathews, Carnegie Foundation, Gill Foundation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ford Foundation, Julian Bond, Jr., Ambassador Jim Hormel, General Colin Powell, Naacp Centennial, Marriage Equality March on Washington, Philantropy in Action, Rockefeller Foundation, Barack Obama, David Bohnett Foundation, Henry Van Ameringen, Oprah Winfrey, The New Black, Segregation, Politics News
Maxim Thorne

To make and record history is a privilege. We learn so much from it. Now that I am teaching Philanthropy in Action at Yale University, I feel compelled to see these huge moments also in a philanthropic context.

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Changing The World One Commitment At A Time

Rick Fedrizzi | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Clinton Global Initiative, Green Jobs, The U.S. Green Building Council, Make It Right, Green Building, LEED Certification, Clinton Foundation, Happy Hearts Fund, Petra Nemcova, Project Haiti, U.S. Green Building Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Resiliency, President Clinton, Green News
Rick Fedrizzi

When you walk through the doors of the Clinton Global Initiative, it's like you've landed on another planet where barriers are dissolved, opportunities are seized, and cooperation is prized.

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Crisis Philanthropy: Partnerships & Co-Investment

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, State Department, Epa, Bill Clinton, Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation, Public/Private Partnerships, Clinton Global Initiative, Hud, Luis Ubinas, Ford Foundation, Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dot, Michelle Obama, Impact News
Michael Likosky

Tough economic times demand that not only foundations but also individuals and governments embrace this leveraging. I call this new approach to giving Crisis Philanthropy.

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Clinton Global Initiative America: Problem-Solvers Not Provocateurs

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Public-Private-Partnerships, Msnbc, National Infrastructure Bank, Rahm Emanuel, John Kerry, Pritzker Family Foundation, Judith Rodin, Mark Warner, Laura Tyson, Fox News, Lindsey Graham, Rockefeller Foundation, Barack Obama, Kay Bailey Hutchison, nBill Clinton, Impact News
Michael Likosky

Over the last two days, a group of businesses, non-profits, and public officials came together in Chicago at the Clinton Global Initiative to find ways putting Americans back to work in a way that contributes to everyone's bottom line.

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A Shot Heard 'Round the World? Social Impact Bonds Bring Social Innovation to the Bay State

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Ronald Cohen, Impact Investing, Milken Global Conference, Social Entrepreneurship, Social-Impact-Bond, David Blood, Clinton Global Initiative, Recidivism, Deval Patrick, TED Conference, Social-Finance, Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Philanthropy, JP Morgan, Strategic Philanthropy, Impact News
Jonathan Greenblatt

SIBs represent the dawn of a new era, one that will accelerate the evolution of the Impact Economy.

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Rockefeller Foundation President: Evolution and Promise of Social Innovation

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Finance, Philanthropy, Social Innovation, Mhealth, International Development, Rockefeller Foundation, Ngos, Impact News
Rahim Kanani

Recently, I sat down with Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, to discuss, in great depth, the evolution and promise of social innovation.

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Caught in the Act: Diana Rowan Rockefeller Empowers Afghan Women to Lead (VIDEO)

Kathy Eldon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Education, Creative Visions Foundation, Women's Issues, Activism, Afghanistan, Nonprofits, Business, Rockefeller Foundation, Empowerment, Leadership, Children, Diana Rowan Rockefeller, Literacy, Jalalabad, Creative Activism, Kathy Eldon, Women's Activism, Child Marriage, Domestic Violence, Impact News
Kathy Eldon

I had the privilege of meeting a leader in women's activism: Diana Rowan Rockefeller, founder of Afghan Leaders Connect.

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"If you Want an Answer, ask Everyone:" The Rise of Crowd-Source Grantmaking

Jane Wales | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Good, Crowd-Sourcing, Center for Effective Philanthropy, Allison Fine, Beth Kanter, Rockefeller Foundation, Case Foundation, Impact News
Jane Wales

Crowd-sourcing is a powerful way to build relationships with people outside an organization, helping them uncover ideas to fund, learning about opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have heard about.

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Listening and Learning

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Globalgiving, Robyn Wilford, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, Cognitive Edge, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, David Ellerman, Rockefeller Foundation, Alex Jacobs, Dennis Whittle, Impact News
Dennis Whittle

The ability to listen is one of the most important factors determining whether aid workers can have a positive -- and lasting -- impact on a community.

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Wynton Marsalis' Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Traveling To Cuba

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Nyc Culture, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Wynton Marsalis, Afro-Cuban Jazz Celebration, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is traveling to Cuba next month for a series of concerts in Havana with bandleader W...

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If You Can Flip a Coin, Can You Be an Expert?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irene Gujit, Globalgiving, Kenya, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, Cognitive Edge, Dennis Whittle, Impact News
Dennis Whittle

With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, we recently ran an experiment at GlobalGiving that had shocking results.  We asked people in four c...

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Solving the Wrong Problems

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Innocentive, Globalgiving, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, MacArthur Genius Grant, Dennis Whittle, Impact News
Dennis Whittle

"The speed with which software-based activities and web innovations catch on has encouraged public perception that transformative technological change takes place almost instantaneously." Unfortunately, this is not the case.

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Empowering Cities Through Service

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cities of Service, Obama Volunteer, Volunteering, Americorps, Rockefeller Foundation, Cities of Service Coalition, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rodin

Cities of Service, from Seattle to Savannah, are establishing innovative citizen-service strategies to address challenges from public safety to homelessness to struggling schools.

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Mayor Bloomberg's Offshore Millions? The Cayman Islands, Cyrus, And Mauritius

Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, New York, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Quadrangle Group, Rattner Quadrangle, Pension Fund Scandal, Steve Rattner, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Gates Foundation, New York News
Aram Roston

It isn't easy to track where Mayor Michael Bloomberg's money is all invested. But at the New York Observer we took a close look at his "Bloomberg Family Foundation" and found some surprises.

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The Human Side of Business: Traumatized but Ready for Recovery

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Zia Khan, Leading Outside the Lines, Economic Crisis, Rockefeller Foundation, Bottom Up, Booz & Company, Business Performance, Jon Katzenbach, Healthy Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

I often hear business leaders relate how difficult it is to motivate during this economic recovery. The human side can make the difference between eking out improvement or roaring back to life.

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pakistan, Salaam Bombay!, Punjabi, Sundaram Tagore, Hindus, Mira Nair, Sesame Street India, Indian Diaspora, Oiww, Bengali, Sikhs, Indian Consulate New York, Mumbai, Indian Classical Music, Aroon Shivdasani, Christians, New York Philharmonic, Jeffrey Sachs, Iona College, Indian Independence, Slumdog Millionaire, Barack Obama, Spanglish, U.S.S.R., Parsis, British, Danny Boyle, Amelia, Upper East Side, M.F.Husain, Broadway, Mahatma Gandhi, Ravi Shankar, Cold War, Hindi, 1947, Vishakha Desai, Indra Nooyi, Global Citizen, Doris Day, Isheeta Ganguly, Telugu, North America, Earth Institute, Salman Rushdie, Manvendra Singh Gohil, Indian-Americans, Urdu, Harold and Kumar, Buddhists, United States, Asia Society, Non-Aligned Nations, Queens, Indo-American Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, Royal House of Rajpipla, India Unveiled, Daily Kos, Thought Leader, Tamil, Mississippi Masala, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Haitian Earthquake Relief, Muslims, Nuclear Weapon State, Baha'is, Bollywood, Zubin Mehta, Orphans International Worldwide, Sanjay Gupta, Jains, Gujarati, Indo-Americans, New York News
Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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Peter Buffett and Angelique Kidjo Release Single to Support Girls in Africa

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benin, Celebs Gone Good, Batonga Foundation, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, World Bank, Omaha, Bono, Girls, Asia, Sierra Leone, Global Citizens, Warren Buffet, IsThereSomethingICanDo.Com, Human Trafficking, Ethiopia, Alexandria, Jim Luce, Mobile Phone, YourCause.Com, Yoruba, Technology, Swahili, Barcelona, Malaika, Philanthropy, Life Is What You Make It, Connectivity, Angelique Kidjo, Peter Buffett, Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, Mali, Ning, Kenya, Egypt, United Nations, Native Americans, Dar Es Salaam, Thought Leaders, Random House, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, NoVo Foundation, Paris, Girl Effect, Cellular Connectivity, Melinda Gates, West Africa, Tanzania, U.N. Day Concert, Earth Institute, Cameroon, Bill Clinton, Do Something, Africa, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Blood Into Gold, Facebook, Rockefeller Foundation, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Haiti, New York City, Charity, Cell Phone Technology, Artist, A Song for Everyone, Ann Veneman, Gates Foundation, Composer, World News
Jim Luce

I have been trying to interview Emmy Award-winning composer/philanthropist Peter Buffett for two years. I wrote about Grammy Award-winning UNICEF G...

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Independent Financial Guidance Key to Making Americans "Financially Fit"

Gavin Newsom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, California, Hello Wallet, Economy, Washington DC, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Business, Rockefeller Foundation, Gavin Newsom, Finance, José Cisneros, Financial Crisis, Banks, San Francisco, Personal Finance, Business News
Gavin Newsom

Just as Americans started handing over their wrenches in the 1950s when their cars became too difficult to maintain, today they must turn to professional guidance to help take care of their accounts.

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Philanthropy and the Economic Crisis

Georgia Levenson Keohane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Social Welfare, Harlen Childrens Zone, Poverty, Social Contract, Tiger Foundation, Philanthropy, Economic Crisis, Non-Profits, Charitable Giving, Pri, Stimulus, Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Peter Singer, Ford Foundation, Bonus, Economic Recession, Heron Foundation, Julian Robertson, Strategic Philanthropy, Blue Ridge Foundation, Giving, Safety Net, Basic Needs, Socially-Useless, Foundations, Alesina, Glaeser, Impact News
Georgia Levenson Keohane

This week and next I am a guest blogger at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. My posts address philanthropy and the economic crisis, and include ...

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Housing For All At Davos Aims To Address Lower-Income Housing Issues

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Economic Forum Housing for All, Housing for All, Davos 2010, Davos, Habitat for Humanity, Davos Housing for All, Rockefeller Foundation, World Economic Forum, Arup, Impact News

As the World Economic Forum kicks off tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland, leaders from some of the world's most successful companies and publications will...

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The Shah Appointment at USAID

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Usaid, Clinton Global Initiative, Food Crisis, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Obama, Hillary Clinton, United States, Cold War, Rockefeller Foundation, Rajiv Shah, Gates Foundation, Foreign Policy, Green News
Mira Kamdar

With the appointment of Rajiv Shah to head USAID, it's deja-vu all over again for the Obama administration. Welcome to Camelot redux, the 1960's re-engineered for the 2010s.

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Meeting our Metropolitan Challenge

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urbanization, World Habitat Day, Rockefeller Foundation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Cities, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rodin

The US today hosts World Habitat Day for the first time. It sets a simple question in sharp relief: Will we shape the historic forces driving billions of people to metro regions or will we let these forces shape us?

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The Swine AcCHORDS: Infectious Disease Surveillance in the 21st Century

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeland Security, President Obama, Swine Flu, Global Health and Security Initiative, H1N1 Influenza, Sam Nunn, Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova, World Health Organization, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Health and Human Services, Ibm, Chords, Nti, Ghsi, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

Regional disease surveillance networks be established -- both among developing countries and developed ones -- in order to improve the quality of detection and control across borders.

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The Post-Social Contract Generation

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Youth, Economics, Work, Judith Rodin, Economic Security, Generation Y, Millennials, Time, Social Contract, Rockefeller Foundation, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rodin

Almost half of America's youngest workers believe the nation's best days may have come and gone. This is Generation Y, the nation's largest age group, and increasingly its most pessimistic.

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