Tropical Medicine beyond Borders: Robert Hutson Kokernot's Assignment in Apartheid South Africa and His Fieldwork in Colonial Mozambique (1954-1960)

From 1954 to 1960, an American veterinarian and doctor of medicine named Robert Hutson Kokernot was employed by the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct virological research in southern Africa. During this period, he relocated with his wife and children to Johannesburg to work at the South African Institute for Medical Research. His research resulted not only in the discovery of arboviruses previously unknown to science, but also in the production of dozens of colored short films shot during his fieldwork in Portuguese African territories, as well as rich correspondence with friends, colleagues, and relatives around the world. This report offers a preliminary analysis of archival documents related to Kokernot's stay in South Africa to indicate how they can be helpful in studying complex historical phenomena ranging from race relations in apartheid South Africa to Makonde artistry in colonial Mozambique

Collaboration as a Catalyst for Change: The Success of the Early Care and Education Association

While there are many potential benefits of early care and education (ECE) including positive child outcomes, support for parental/caregiver employment, and driving economic growth, the nation's early care and education system is still fragile. Long-standing challenges related to access, affordability, and quality are well known.This case study illustrates the Foundation's philanthropic approach underlying the genesis and innovative success of the ECEA, a provider-led network serving ECE professionals in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont.The network, known as Early Care & Education Association (ECEA), has grown from four active members in 2016 to more than 160 today under the tenure of Amy Brooks, inaugural Executive Director. This case study showcases the contributions of ECEA to the ECE field, not only as providing meaningful mentoring and technical support for center and family child leaders and educators, but also operating a comprehensive suite of ECE workforce development programs.ECEA's programs support the entry of new early educators into the field as well as provide technical assistance to a growing number of director networks, center-based, and family child care providers statewide

Growing Against All Odds: Mapping funding for intersectional organizing in the CEECCNA regions

Growing Against All Odds: Mapping Funding for Intersectional Organizing in the CEECCNA Regions is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of funding for intersectional organising across the diverse regions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA).This research is driven by the need to spotlight lived experiences and political agendas of regional social justice movements, whose efforts are critical yet often overlooked and underfunded. At the same time, it is not only about funding in that geography — though worthy of study in its own right. The findings also point to the challenges and possibilities of driving funding to movements around the world that are operating amidst crisis, restricted civic space and attacks on democratic institutions. Funders committed to social justice and human rights around the world can take lessons from the CEECCNA regions, which stand out as a roadmap of right-wing tactics and, at the same time, a case of longstanding organised resistance

Guía para Empezar un Negocio en Louisiana

English: The Business Start up Guide in Spanish is a downloadable PDF that contains an explanation of the legal business entities, the steps to registering/formalizing a business in Louisiana and provides a step by step tutorial for 20+ entrepreneurial trades including construction, food and beverage, salon/spa etc.Espanol: La Guía de Inicio de Negocios en español es un PDF descargable que contiene una explicación de las entidades comerciales legales, los pasos para registrar/formalizar un negocio en Luisiana y proporciona un tutorial paso a paso para más de 20 oficios emprendedores, incluyendo construcción, alimentos y bebidas, salón/spa, etc

Laying the Foundation for Environmental Peacebuilding

The environment has long served as a means for bringing adversaries together to discuss technical issues as a step toward enhancing security and building political cooperation. During the height of the Cold War, Soviet and American scientists would meet at international scientific meetings to discuss topics ranging from fisheries and air pollution to nuclear safety and climate change. Such meetings provided entry points to build trust, confidence, and mutual understanding in areas that demanded cooperation such as environmental management. Meetings among nongovernmental organizations also helped to build bridges among civil society groups by discussing issues of mutual concern that demanded cooperation, including arms reduction and environmental protection. Such forms of cooperation surrounding environmental issues have been the foundation of the field of environmental peacebuilding whereby the environment is an entry point for conflict prevention and building a sustainable peace. This report, "Laying the Foundation for Environmental Peacebuilding," revisits environmental peacebuilding efforts both during the Cold War and in the immediate years following the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to take stock of their political and environmental impact. The Rockefeller Archive Center houses the records of the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU). TMU is a private foundation that since 1985 has awarded grants to American nonprofit organizations to support direct exchanges in the arts and the environment. This report focuses on the extent to which direct person-to-person contacts and professional meetings have helped to strengthen cooperation, enhance trust and understanding, and foster a healthy and clean environment.Â

The Brooklyn Health Equity Index: A new survey to measure patients' experience of bias and discrimination

In 2022, United Hospital Fund convened a task force of leaders from New York health care organizations to help coordinate efforts to improve health equity and health care quality. The task force's findings were released in a recent UHF report.Complementing this report is a new series of spotlights chronicling how some task force members are already taking the initiative to connect quality and equity in their health systems.The spotlight series is organized in four themes: incorporating social determinants of health (SDoH) into clinical care models; patient engagement and co-design; improving capacity for SDoH screening and referrals; and investing in the community. This spotlight examines the Brooklyn Health Equity Index (BKHI), developed by SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Center in partnership with One Brooklyn Health System (OBHS) and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.Â

100 Climate-Neutral European Cities: Philanthropyâs Role in Ensuring a Just and Fair Transition through the EU Cities Mission

100 Cities from 27 EU Member States are paving the way to Europe's ambition to be the first climate neutral continent by 2050. Through the co-design and delivery of a Climate City Contract (CCCs), an innovative governance tool endorsed by participating public authorities, enterprises, universities and civil society organisations, cities can formalise their commitment to ambitious targets they set themselves.53 cities have delivered these CCCs and have been awarded the EU Mission Label, however analysis of the 52 CCCs publicly available reveals that a total of 58 foundations are referenced across 22 cities in 11 EU Member States. With Europe being the continent with the largest number of registered public-benefit foundations there is an untapped potential that can be unlocked. This publication analyses the current ways in which foundations are supporting cities' transition to climate neutrality, identifies how foundations can further be involved and outlines key recommendations to the European Commission to shape a tailored pathway to onboard philanthropy and unlock its untapped potential

Beyond ARPA: Tracking ECE Compensation Policies Nationwide

This database is a crowdsourced gold mine of information on the latest state and local efforts to boost wages and benefits for early educators. It offers a window into how different initiatives take shape. The updated compensation tracker includes a dashboard and a database to inform efforts to improve compensation. It builds on one developed in 2021-2023

Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment of Climate Program Grantees

The Barr Climate Program team partnered with Community Centered Evaluation and Research to design and implement the Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment. The assessment provides: 1) Climate grantees a snapshot of their racial equity efforts, activities, and strategies to help benchmark progress over time and 2) the Barr Climate team and others interested with an aggregated view of grantees' racial equity work

Building foundations for collaborative transformation: a philanthropy sector needs analysis

The world faces multiple interconnected crises: an urgent need for equitable green, digital and social transitions; rising radicalisation and conflict; growing threats to democratic freedoms; and shrinking civic space – all while experiencing unprecedented cuts to international development aid. The current system clearly lacks resilience and capacity to address these challenges. Yet within these crises lies an opportunity to fundamentally reimagine our approach to development.Tackling today's societal challenges requires raising our level of ambition to deliver far more transformational impact: tackling root causes, innovating new models and shifting systems to leave behind a long-term sustainable legacy that delivers for people and planet.This is only possible by aligning and combining the powerful levers from public, private, people and, more and more, investors. Philanthropy has a vital role to play in making such collaborations happen, offering far more than funding. With its unique flexibility, convening power, and appetite for risk, philanthropy can drive transformational change by enabling bold, cross-sector collaboration. It must now move beyond traditional grant-making to unlock the collective resources of all sectors to address systemic issues at their root.However, despite a growing recognition of the power of partnerships, turning intention into action remains difficult. The Partnering Initiative, WINGS and Philea have come together to conduct a needs assessment to understand how the foundation sector itself must change in order to make the necessary shift.This needs assessment, developed through extensive research with over 50 foundations, provides valuable insights into current partnering practices, challenges faced, and future aspirations. By identifying key barriers and sharing good practices, it equips foundations with knowledge of the internal changes needed to maximise impact through partnerships