When it comes to giving away his fortune, Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, says he seeks causes others may have overlooked and ways to test new ideas.
The North Star Fund is the first community foundation to sign onto the Divest-Invest Philanthropy initiative's pledge to divest from fossil fuel investments.
Environmental expert Arturo Garcia-Costas has joined The New York Community Trust as Program Officer for national and New York City environmental grantmaking.
The Educational Foundation of America and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation are among the 17 foundations who have vowed to divest the fossil fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least five percent of their assets in clean-energy companies,...
The grants, awarded in the foundation's three program areas to 56 nonprofit organizations across the country, represent the third cycle of quarterly grants since Surdna introduced changes to each of its program strategies late last year.
Aspen Skiing Company Sustainability Director Auden Schendler and Mertz Gilmore Foundation Vice President Lukas Haynes talk about a collaboration between ski resorts and a climate-focused nonprofit to address global warming in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Health and Environmental Funders Network Program Manager Ramtin Arablouei shares the many risks associated with fracking that have caused concern among policymakers, communities and foundations.
InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.