Robert Smith III Joins the Surdna Foundation as Program Officer, Thriving Cultures
Release Date:
02/06/2019
The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce its hire of Robert Smith III as Program Officer of the Thriving Cultures program.
Social Justice
Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications
Release Date:
12/04/2018
Arcus today publishes a Request for Concepts, the initial step in a streamlined process for organizations to apply for Arcus funding to support LGBTQ social justice work. The deadline for responses to this open call is January 22, 2019. Subsequent...
Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Judges Panel to Be Chaired by Clark Foundation President Douglas Bauer
Release Date:
10/22/2018
Six titles have been shortlisted for this year’s second annual Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. The award, named after former Goddard Riverside Executive Director Stephan Russo, celebrates the power of the written word...
NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund
Release Date:
06/13/2018
The NoVo Foundation today announced $34 million—up from $20 million committed originally—in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among 1,000 applicants doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty
Release Date:
05/07/2018
The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.
William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research
Release Date:
05/04/2018
The foundation will award grants of up to $600,000 over two or three years in support of research designed to build, test, and increase understanding of approaches to reducing inequality in youth outcomes on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic...
Propel Capital’s Sarah Williams Honored by The Center for Court Innovation
Release Date:
03/19/2018
The Center for Court Innovation honors four leaders who have made New York a better place.
Opioid Crises Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium
Release Date:
02/26/2018
The event, sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, brings together cops, prosecutors, journalists like yours truly, academics, public health professionals and others to discuss crime-related trends. The theme this year? “Justice in the...
Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism
Release Date:
02/23/2018
Shifman, Executive Director of NoVo Foundation, offers three ways white people in philanthropy can begin to respond to racism.
NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge
Release Date:
02/15/2018
The Partnership for Freedom today announced the three winners of its Pathways to Freedom challenge. Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis were selected to participate in a first-of-its-kind anti-trafficking challenge to develop citywide approaches to...
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