The Russell Sage Foundation Announces Visiting Scholars for 2014-2015
Release Date:
09/02/2014
The Russell Sage Foundation has named 17 leading social scientists as Visiting Scholars for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Social Justice
Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach
Release Date:
09/02/2014
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, plans to refocus grant distribution to sectors the foundation is not currently funding, but has supported in the past.
Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting
Release Date:
08/28/2014
The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how to respond to social justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the police response to the protests that...
The Case for Giving Cash to Poor Kids
Release Date:
08/25/2014
The Century Foundation's Clio Chang writes that the implementation of child allowances could go a long way toward reducing child poverty rates in the United States.
New Class of Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Tackles Economic and Social Inequality
Release Date:
08/12/2014
Three innovators combating issues of economic and social inequality with outside-the-box thinking were named Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows.
Systemic Racism Hurting Girls and Women Of Color, Not Just Males
Release Date:
08/07/2014
If foundations want to fully address the problems of systemic racism in the U.S, they need to step up their support for girls and women of color, write Pamela Shifman, executive director of the NoVo Foundation, and Nakisha M. Lewis, an advisor on...
Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Ernest Tollerson Interim CEO
Release Date:
07/31/2014
Ernest Tollerson has been named interim CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Atlantic Seeks To Sustain Gains From Past Work As Grantmaking Nears Conclusion
Release Date:
07/30/2014
As Atlantic Philanthropies moves closer to completing all its grantmaking by 2016, it also is taking steps "to effectively realise and sustain gains in the core issues and fields that we and our grantees have seeded and cultivated over time," says...
More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups
Release Date:
07/25/2014
If foundations want social change groups to have more impact, they need to step up investments that will help them make better use of technology, writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an...
William Simon President Questions Motives of "Liberal" Foundations Working To Advance Democracy
Release Date:
07/23/2014
Citing efforts dating back to the 1960s, the president of the William E. Simon Foundation argues that major foundations--including Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller--have pursued "an obvious, politically liberal, ideological agenda" in the name of...
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