Bold Stories For Big Challenges
Release Date:
12/17/2013
Working Narratives' Paul VanDeCarr provides a recap of our PNY event on how foundations can use diverse types of storytelling for greater impact.
Social Justice
Jason McGill to Join Arcus Foundation As Vice President, Social Justice Program
Release Date:
10/18/2013
The Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues, has announced that Jason McGill will join the Foundation as Vice President, Social Justice Program.
Keeping the Focus on Race and Justice
Release Date:
08/22/2013
Media Impact Funders Executive Director Vincent Stehle highlights several recent media projects (including The Central Park Five and PNY’s funder gathering focusing on that acclaimed film) that explore the racial inequities that still plague our...
The Possible Philanthropic Response to Trayvon Martin
Release Date:
08/19/2013
Initiatives from the Open Society Foundations and the Schott Foundation for Public Education are cited in a Nonprofit Quarterly article on the possible philanthropic response to the death of Trayvon Martin.
Reshaping the Business of Social Change
Release Date:
06/20/2013
We’re pleased to have Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, discuss her organization’s unique approach to giving, the principles of shared value and the Foundation's many initiatives geared towards supporting women’s rights and...
Open Society Foundations Announces 2013 Soros Justice Fellows
Release Date:
05/15/2013
A mix of emerging and established social justice leaders, the fourteen fellows include investigative journalists, lawyers, grassroots organizers, policy advocates and scholars who will take on a range of reform issues that relate to broader OSF...
Inaugural Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Tackle Problems with Creative Projects
Release Date:
05/01/2013
Three innovators who will use unique approaches to tackle deeply-rooted social and economic issues were named to the inaugural class of Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows. Fellows have the opportunity to change the world in one year with $100,000,...
A New Way to Sustain the Campaign — BMAFunders.org
Release Date:
03/28/2013
Five years ago, the Open Society Foundations created its Campaign for Black Male Achievement to address the economic, political, social and educational exclusion of black men and boys from American society.
5 Questions for...Melissa Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Tides
Release Date:
03/11/2013
In this PhilanTopic interview, Tides CEO Melissa Bradley discusses the Twenty-First Century Foundation Powered by Tides partnership, what her organization has learned about the field of impact investing and what philanthropy can do to strengthen its...
Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms
Release Date:
02/15/2013
Mr. Bagwell, a director and producer of some of the most influential documentaries about the civil rights movement and the black American experience, will leave the foundation in June to make his own documentaries once again.
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