The Carnegie Institution and Rockefeller Foundation supported eugenics programmes in Germany into the 1930s, for example.
Meyer landed at Harvard in 1990 after scoring big investment returns at the Rockefeller Foundation.
When he tried to give his mansion laboratory to the Rockefeller Foundation, Tuxedo Park neighbors nixed the deal.
He was a trustee to the Rockefeller Foundation, a special adviser to U.N.
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The Rockefeller Foundation's bet on dwarf wheat and penicillin ensured that billions of people were fed and kept healthy.
The Rockefeller Foundation was an early explorer of this field of finance.
Several nonprofits are also involved, including NTI, which provides lab diagnostics, and the Rockefeller Foundation, which originally funded the project.
The group that funded and partnered to create CORDS includes the Rockefeller Foundation, NTI, Fondation Merieux, Peter G.
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Impact Investors Network are introducing revolutionary new social investing models for commercial and nonprofit social entrepreneurs.
Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, made the announcement on Thursday at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Real Virtuality has been made possible through a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund award, with additional support provided by Barco and Flanders House.
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But he found the academic environment unsatisfying and moved on to the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was put in charge of crafting a global-health plan.
In 2009, The Rockefeller Foundation gave a grant to Social Finance UK to develop a then unknown innovative finance tool called the social impact bond.
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The IEIF will be managed by The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) in close collaboration with the Tony Elumelu Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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The more roads and drivers a state has, the more federal money it receives, explains Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation, which funds infrastructure research.
The Rockefeller Foundation has recently formed a partnership with InnoCentive, an entrepreneurial website, to offer financial rewards to people who solve specific social challenges posted on the site.
The research was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Norman Borlaug had got a Nobel in 1970 for developing the high yielding wheat at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre in Mexico, and had been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The parasite that causes the disease has been wily enough to evade eradication attempts in the past--from the Rockefeller Foundation's efforts in the early 1900s, to the World Health Organization in the 1950s.
In 1952 news of Vogel's wheat filtered down to a remote research station in Mexico, where a man named Norman Borlaug was breeding fungus-resistant wheat for a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Leaders like former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, or President of the Rockefeller Foundation Judith Rodin, or President of Harvard University Drew Faust, or Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, among many, many others.
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Amit Bouri: In October 2012, the GIIN expanded collaboration with Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote impact investing by supporting research, outreach, and other field-building activities.
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It was started as a joint initiative of three newly appointed foundation presidents, Peter Goldmark of the Rockefeller Foundation, Rebecca Rimel of the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Adele Simmons of the John D. and Catherine T.
For example, today the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help selected cities to leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
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The Rockefeller Foundation has also backed projects such as the NatLab, a collaboration of National Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, and Eko Asset Management Partners, that is designing new financing products for GI.
For example, last week the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help up to eight cities leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
So with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, starting in 2007 I began helping to bring together people around the world who share an excitement about the positive role that investment can play in addressing social and environmental challenges.
Radical change is also occurring at the Rockefeller Foundation, where President Judith Rodin is making investments in profit-making companies that have a social entrepreneurship goal, like a network of 170, 000 scientists that is being utilized to solve important social problems around the globe.
The Rockefeller Foundation set out on this path at the very beginning, by focusing on field and capacity building to ensure the quality of the first few social impact bonds, engaging the capital markets and traditional investors, and as investors ourselves.
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Its core funders are the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Marisla Foundation and the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.
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