MasterCard Foundation Funding $15.5 Million Program to Assist Small Farmers in Africa
Release Date:
11/07/2014
The program will help improve productivity for 730,000 farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
Food Systems
Tiffany & Co. Foundation Among Funders of Breakthrough Fisheries Management Research
Release Date:
10/27/2014
Stricter fisheries management can combat the effects of climate change.
Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow
Release Date:
07/17/2014
Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Eat for Health initiative at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of 10 2014-15 Loeb Fellows at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
City's Green Cart Initiative Judged An "Extraordinary Success"
Release Date:
07/13/2014
Evaluators are calling an "extraordinary success" an initiative launched in NYC in 2008, with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, to make more fresh fruits and vegetables available in low-income neighborhoods.
Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children
Release Date:
07/09/2014
The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.
NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Release Date:
06/11/2014
[Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund] New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income neighborhoods, influenced customers' consumption of fruits and vegetables, and...
New York Community Trust Grants $7.3 Million to 69 Nonprofits in All Five Boroughs and Nationwide
Release Date:
06/09/2014
Nonprofits throughout NYC working to help victims of human trafficking, stop gang violence and build young leaders are among the 69 groups sharing in $7.3 million in grants from The New York Community Trust
Morgan Stanley Launches Healthy Cities
Release Date:
06/04/2014
Morgan Stanley is launching Healthy Cities, a philanthropy program designed to fuel innovation in coordinating the wellness, nutrition and play resources that can underpin a child’s healthy start in life.
New Trees and Community Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement
Release Date:
05/22/2014
[North Star Fund] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of western Queens, money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over a new, green leaf in the neighborhoods affected by it — including 962 trees and 40 new school...
Can Philanthropy Support the Transformation of Society?
Release Date:
03/06/2014
NoVo Foundation Co-Chairs Jennifer and Peter Buffett ask this all-important question while examining the fight for equitable treatment of agricultural workers in Florida — an example of where philanthropy can play a crucial role in social change.
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