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Assessing Market-Based Solutions: Lessons from Evaluating a Youth Employment Initiative [PDF]
Over the last few years, The Rockefeller Foundation – working with other funders, industry associations, governments and networks – has supported a portfolio of grantees to test a range of models for training, employing, and supporting low-income youth ...
Edward T. Jackson, Karim Harji
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Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets
Abstract Moral markets, designed to generate positive impact on pressing social and environmental challenges, are transforming traditional market practices by including more than economic considerations in their operations. The importance of these markets continues to grow as investors, regulators, and consumers increasingly put pressure on companies ...
Guillermo Casasnovas +2 more
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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The research objectives of this project are to elucidate the effects of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi) of varying target specificity on platelet function with regard to platelet aggregation, adhesion, spreading, and ...
Thomas Kartika +3 more
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Developmental Evaluation in Practice: Lessons from Evaluating a Market-Based Employment Initiative [PDF]
Developmental evaluation (DE) has emerged as an approach that is well suited to evaluating innovative early-stage or market-based initiatives that address complex social issues.
Edward T. Jackson, Karim Harji
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Understanding of the mycobacterial transcription system is useful to the development of therapeutics against tuberculosis infection. Here the authors present the crystal structure of a completeM. smegmatisRNA polymerase open promoter complex that reveals
Elizabeth A. Hubin +3 more
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En 1941, por invitación de la Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería de México -SAG-, la Fundación Rockefeller envió una “Comisión de Estudio” para establecer las condiciones agrícolas en la República y para discutir con miembros de la Secretaría, las ...
Alejandro Fuentes +2 more
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Ten Cities, Four Countries, Five Years: Lessons on the Process of Building Urban Climate Change Resilience [PDF]
The Rockefeller Foundation initiated a nine-year Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) in ten initial cities and four countries1 in 2008. ACCCRN seeks to strengthen the capabilities of cities to plan, finance and implement urban climate
Stefan Nachuk
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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: THE ROCKEFELLERS AND THE DECLINE OF BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION
Business leaders backed Prohibition until it became the law of the land, then John D. Rockefeller Sr., John D. Rockefrlle, Jr., and others reversed themselves and called for repeal.
Ranjit Dighe
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2145 Drug formulation strategies: A vital but nearly invisible component in translational education
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: To develop a KL2 curriculum on the science and art of drug formulation. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Develop training materials for KL2 scholars that outline the art of formulation development.
Robert B. MacArthur +2 more
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Georgia: Individual State Report - State-level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act [PDF]
This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State
Michael J. Rich
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