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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces COVID-19 Response Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee Workers in the U.S.

Release Date:

05/11/2020

Earlier this month, WES Mariam Assefa Fund shared its initial responses to the needs exposed and created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Immigrants are America’s workers, and 12 million are currently on the front lines of the...

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World Education Services / WES Mariam Assefa Fund

Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil Fuel Divestment at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

05/11/2020

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund turned its back on the source of family wealth—and reaped the returns.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Environment and Climate Change

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Open Society Foundations Commit $15 Million to Gender Equality in Africa

Release Date:

05/08/2020

The Open Society Economic Justice Program, via its impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), has committed $15 million to two women-led investment funds that advance economic and gender equity.

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Open Society Foundations

William T. Grant Foundation Awards Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants to Three New York City Nonprofits

Release Date:

05/07/2020

Part of a new program, these grants provide up to $60,000 in unrestricted general operating support over three years.

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

Release Date:

05/05/2020

To move a $2.6 billion infrastructure project, in the face of strong opposition, takes a daunting amount of power. How is a regional foundation to tap so much force?

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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The Rauch Foundation

National Grid Foundation to Help Communities Address Food Insecurity and Human Services Impacted by COVID-19

Release Date:

05/04/2020

The National Grid Foundation Board of Directors today announced a $500,000 donation for 45 community organizations across Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island to help support hunger relief and human services for people in need and struggling...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

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National Grid

Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in Communities of Color

Release Date:

04/30/2020

The foundation is announcing and distributing grants that would have been made in the summer in order to provide organizations with resources as they ramp up programming to respond to the pandemic.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Distributes $31 Million First Round of Grants to Reach Areas Hardest Hit by COVID-19

Release Date:

04/30/2020

The funding is part of the Foundation’s $100 million global COVID-19 relief initiative; grants focus on food and shelter, mental health, artist relief, and frontline health care staff.