Tiffany & Co. Names Anisa Kamadoli Costa Chief Sustainability Officer
Release Date:
04/10/2015
Costa will retain her position as chairman and president of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation.
Food Systems
Aetna Foundation Initiative Promotes Healthy Eating in Inner-City Neighborhoods
Release Date:
04/07/2015
Grants will support community gardens and urban farmers markets.
Urban Farms and Gardens are Critical for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System
Release Date:
03/31/2015
Design Trust for Public Space Executive Director, Susan Chin, offers insight on how urban farms are integral to creating viable food options.
Aetna Foundation Announces Launch of the 2015 GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities Grants Program
Release Date:
03/27/2015
The Aetna Foundation will institute an open RFP for this new program.
Natasha Lifton Joins The New York Community Trust as Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and Families
Release Date:
03/16/2015
Natasha Lifton will replace Patricia White as Senior Program Officer at New York Community Trust.
McCray, Glen and Citi Launch Initiative to Support Women Entrepreneurs
Release Date:
03/13/2015
NYCHA, Small Business Services, Economic Development Corporation, Hot Bread Kitchen and Citi celebrate first graduates of Food Business Pathways, a program to provide public housing residents with training and resources to grow a food business
Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark
Release Date:
03/12/2015
Together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the $30 million project will redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College
Release Date:
01/29/2015
New program will include food policy, social justice and health science classes.
Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor
Release Date:
01/23/2015
Ford's grants help Slow Food USA promote food and economic security in poor rural an urban households in South and Latin America.
MasterCard Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund to Help Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
01/21/2015
$15 million will support the development of new ideas, and $35 million wil help scale promising ideas or pilots.
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