Five years ago, the Open Society Foundations created its Campaign for Black Male Achievement to address the economic, political, social and educational exclusion of black men and boys from American society.
The NoVo Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago and the California Community Foundation received the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s inaugural Impact Awards for creativity and leadership in giving.
The Providence Talks project, which will help low-income parents improve their kids’ language skills, secured the $5 million top prize for Providence, R.I., in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge.
Community Preservation Corp., a 38-year-old nonprofit lender, has received a $250 million infusion of capital from Citigroup to revive the organization and allow it to refocus on its core mission of rehabilitating affordable housing in lower-income...
Called the Healthy Futures Fund, the project is in part a response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the 20 million new health care consumers that the legislation is likely to create.
Kiva, the Latino Economic Development Center and Capital One Bank have announced the launch of Kiva City D.C., a website that will provide small business owners in the greater Washington, D.C., area with access to crowdfunded microloans.