How the Rockefeller Auction is Leaving an Inspirational Legacy
Release Date:
05/08/2018
The auction is estimated to bring in a record-breaking $1 billion, specifically endowing a select number of charities.
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Funded by Heckscher Foundation for Children, Behavioral Science Meets College-Bound Student Success in Nudges, Norms, and New Solutions
Release Date:
05/08/2018
Behavioral science meets college-bound student success in Nudges, Norms, and New Solutions - the all-new, hands-on guide and hotline for educators helping students enter and successfully complete college. The open-source guide and free hotline...
Andrus Family Fund and Groundswell Fund Amongst Leading LGBTQ Funders
Release Date:
05/07/2018
Just over 60 U.S. foundations increased their grantmaking by 25 percent or more in 2016, earning them a place on Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ 2016 honor roll.
Dr. David Blumenthal Looks Back as The Commonwealth Fund Celebrates 100 Years
Release Date:
05/07/2018
Over the last 100 years, The Commonwealth Fund has been committed to improving the health of the American people as well as working on international issues and to improving the care, especially of vulnerable populations.
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...
How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR
Release Date:
05/04/2018
CSR with Prudential is done through “an inside out and an outside in perspective”—using the company’s skills to work on a community’s problem and accepting outside help for its decision-making.
World Cities Culture Forum Announces Four Leadership Awards across 9 Global Cities
Release Date:
05/03/2018
The World Cities Culture Forum, with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Google Arts & Culture, is excited to announce the first-ever Leadership Exchange Programme, designed to support World Cities to develop best practices for advancing...
Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley
Release Date:
05/03/2018
RGV FOCUS leaders recently unveiled the organization’s 2017 Annual Report showing that Rio Grande Valley students now match or outperform their Texas peers in nine out of 11 key indicators – from high school graduation rates, to FAFSA financial aid...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The JPB Foundation and Others Fund Brain Circuitry Research
Release Date:
05/03/2018
Observational learning, offers a major evolutionary advantage, says Kay Tye, an MIT associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and a member of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
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