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Awarded Dec 08-2015
2015
toward the costs of expanding its “Jazz for Young People: The Resilient Cities Tour” in New York City and scaling the program to additional cities globally in an effort to inform students about jazz and its musical, historical and cultural impact on building resilient communities
    $1,000,000
    Awarded Nov 24-2015
    Pennsylvania State University 2015
    for use by its Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolution and Diversity in support of providing technological support to students participating in the “Finding Your Roots: Using Personalized Genetics and Genealogy Approach to Foster Interest and Participation in the Health Sciences in Middle School-aged Youth” summer camps
      $167,676
      Awarded Oct 28-2015
      2015
      toward the costs of activities to launch a new field of “Planetary Health” in order to yield better solutions to health challenges in the 21st century
        $800,000
        Awarded Nov 20-2015
        2015
        toward the costs of continuing its “New World Connect” program, a sustainable, virtual music education community for middle and high school students
          $250,000
          Awarded Nov 02-2015
          2015
          for use by its project, the Natural Capital Coalition, in support of strengthening the natural capital community by standardizing a framework for businesses to measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural resources
            $700,000
            Awarded Oct 28-2015
            Stanford University 2015
            for use by its Natural Capital Project in support of developing a global science and technology platform to mainstream accounting for natural capital into policies and markets affecting human wellbeing
              $400,000
              Awarded Nov 02-2015
              2015
              in support of surfacing new learnings on urban food resilience in order to identify best practices in food system efficiency and resilience, and develop a set of recommendations for city leaders
                $175,000
                Awarded Dec 02-2015
                Solutions Journalism Network 2015
                in support of creating a platform for aggregating social-impact driven reporting on social and environmental challenges and making it accessible to university professors and students, the philanthropic and social sectors, and the general public
                  $500,000
                  Awarded Dec 07-2015
                  University of Toronto 2015
                  for use by its Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management toward the costs of advancing the reach and application of its Global Solution Networks program and of conducting new research on the role of philanthropy in orchestrating resilient networks
                    $125,000
                    Awarded Nov 20-2015
                    2015
                    in support of a project to develop guidelines for implementing India’s new Corporate Social Responsibility Mandate through building collaborative platforms to address strategic social and development challenges and testing the feasibility for such platforms in the energy access and rural enterprise promotion sector
                      $253,058