How the David Rockefeller Fund has Responded to the Crises of 2020
Release Date:
09/24/2020
The year 2020 has challenged the David Rockefeller Fund as it has most of our peer foundations.
Social Justice
Citi Launches More Than $1 Billion in Strategic Initiatives to Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Release Date:
09/23/2020
“Action for Racial Equity” represents unprecedented effort to leverage Citi’s core business capabilities and Citi Foundation philanthropy to help address racial equity and justice in the U.S.
New Multi-Foundation Matching Fund Recognizes Public Transit’s Importance to Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability
Release Date:
09/17/2020
Philanthropy has an important role to play in amplifying community-based voices calling for reform and improvement of public transit, instrumental to more just and sustainable cities.
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S.
Release Date:
09/03/2020
Largest-ever individual philanthropic gift to historically Black medical schools will ease debt burden of their students
The Weight of Privilege in Crisis
Release Date:
08/19/2020
The world has undergone a tectonic shift in the last six months and it's changing us.
CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives
Release Date:
08/13/2020
The grant is the largest gift the Mellon Foundation has made to CUNY in its 45-year history of supporting the nation’s leading urban public university.
The Atlantic Philanthropies Introduces 2020 Fellows for Racial Equity
Release Date:
08/03/2020
Since 2017, AFRE has been a space where leaders on the frontlines of the struggle for racial equity in South Africa and the United States engageto build long-term solutions for impactful change.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces Homeboy Industries as the 2020 Recipient of the Annual Humanitarian Prize
Release Date:
08/03/2020
The Los Angeles based, nonprofit organization Homeboy Industries has been chosen as the 2020 Humanitarian Prize recipient and will receive $2.5 million in unrestricted funding.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Increases Spending to Seize ‘Hinge Moment in History’
Release Date:
06/30/2020
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced today that it will increase its annual spending to allocate an additional $48 million over the next five years to address critical system failures that underlie both the COVID-19 pandemic and the enduring...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons
Release Date:
06/30/2020
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory announcesa new initiative to distribute a curated 500-book collection to 1,000 medium and maximum security prisons, including at least one juvenile detention center, across...
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