Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice
Release Date:
01/24/2017
The longer you hang around philanthropy, the more you'll realize how deeply family background influences people's giving.
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Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative
Release Date:
01/24/2017
These days, to be a conservation funder is to be a climate change funder. At least that ought to be the case. Because how do you conserve a wetland that’s drying up? How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat?
Henry Luce Foundation Is Committed to the Art of Displaying Art (And Why That's Important)
Release Date:
01/24/2017
The Henry Luce Foundation, which just awarded a three-year grant of $825,000 to the Worcester Art Museum to support a series of projects focused on the museum's collection of pre-contemporary American art.
Darren Walker of Ford Foundation Speaks Out About Why It's Essential to Partner With Businesses
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01/24/2017
Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation speaks out about why it's essential to partner with businesses.
Arcus Foundation Names Annette Lanjouw and Jason McGill Co-Executive Directors
Release Date:
01/24/2017
The Arcus Foundation announced today the appointment of Annette Lanjouw , previously Vice President, Great Apes Program and Strategic Initiatives, and Jason McGill , previously Vice President of Social Justice...
Fake News as a Real Opportunity
Release Date:
01/23/2017
Celeste Ford, manager of media relations for Carnegie Corporation of New York, says philanthropic organizations are in a strong position to offer a wide range of credible and newsworthy information to audiences that are increasingly open to new...
Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition
Release Date:
01/23/2017
This innovative challenge is the first-ever to be modeled after the award-winning Rebuild by Design Hurricane Sandy Design Competition , which was pioneered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in partnership with The Rockefeller...
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...
Aetna Foundation Survey Finds the Importance of Local Environment to Patient Health
Release Date:
01/20/2017
Respondents to an Aetna Foundation survey said local aspects have a large effect on their health.
Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns
Release Date:
01/20/2017
The William T. Grant Foundation's Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they socialized with on a regular basis — both in person and online — and then used the data to identify the most...
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