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02.25.15

Net Neutrality Activists Take Civil Rights Fight to Doorsteps of Telecom Giants

In the lead-up to the FCC’s pivotal net neutrality vote on Thursday, civil rights and media justice organizations across the...
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02.06.15

FCC: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time...
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01.13.15

Shareholders Press Verizon Board on Net Neutrality

Investors in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), including the Nathan Cummings Foundation, are once again pressing the company’s board of directors...
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10.07.14

An Invisible Workforce: Home Care Workers Are Highly Valued but Overworked and Underpaid

Latin Post recently spoke to Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and lead organizer and founder...
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10.01.14

Shareholders Are Not Happy With Oracle’s New Co-CEO Pay

“Five bigwig institutional shareholders want to force Oracle to make radical changes to the way it pays it top three...
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09.24.14

Oracle Ties Pay to Performance After Investor Lobbying

The Nathan Cummings Foundation’s shareholder activity at Oracle Corp. has made the news after Oracle’s decision to tie executive pay...
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09.15.14

The Worst Paying Fastest-growing Job in America

At the signing ceremony, Brown said that the legislation—expected to bring paid sick leave to most of the 6.5 million...
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08.29.14

Why Jews Should Care About What Happened in Ferguson

Stosh Cotler, the CEO of NCF Grantee Bend the Arc, has written a powerful commentary in the Washington Post about...
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02.24.14

Grant Makers Are Ignoring One of Their Most Powerful Tools

Over the past year, shareholder activists racked up a list of accomplishments that would be the envy of many foundations....
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10.21.13

IBT runs NCF piece on problematic structure at 21st Century Fox

Dear Rupert Murdoch: Please Eliminate Your Company’s Dual-Class Share Structure October 18, 2013 In this piece from the International Business...
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10.16.13

Institutional investors call for slew of changes at 21st Century Fox

Pensions & Investments, reported on the Nathan Cummings Foundation’s work to improve shareholder rights at 21st Century Fox, whose shareholder...
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09.18.13

NCF’s Proxy Access Proposal Receives Majority Support At Darden Shareholder Meeting

Darden Restaurants, Inc., one of America’s largest restaurant conglomerates and the owner of Olive Garden, Red Lobster and many other...
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07.17.13

New Momentum for Change in Corporate Board Elections

The Nathan Cummings Foundation welcomes recent coverage by the New York Times of the noteworthy achievements of the Shareholder Rights...
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05.28.13

News Corporation Board Approves Split of Company

““New blood is always a good thing for a company as it tries to overcome” scandals like the phone hacking...
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