Bruce and Suzie Kovner Receive 2016 Simon Philanthropy Prize
Release Date:
04/12/2016
The Simon Prize carries a $250,000 award, which goes to a charity of the winner's choice.
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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation
Release Date:
04/12/2016
The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to developing an arts and leadership program for children on the autism spectrum.
New NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities
Release Date:
04/12/2016
Through this Request for Proposals (RFP), NYSHealth will sponsor community-based organizations, health departments, and other low-resource organizations to attend and present at local, State, and national conferences related to building healthy...
TX Healthcare Publication Says Commonwealth Fund is Targeting State Lawmakers
Release Date:
04/11/2016
Evidence is building that the repeated reluctance of Texas lawmakers to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act has “left behind millions of low-income Texans,” according to a new report by The Commonwealth Fund.
Helmsley Trust Awards $9.4 Million for Rural Health Care in Montana
Release Date:
04/11/2016
The awards include $4.6 million to the Montana Department of Health in support of its Simulation in Motion Montana program, which will employ eighteen-wheelers containing simulation learning labs and high-fidelity patient simulators to train rural...
Former Bessemer Trust Board Chairman Dinny Phipps Remembered
Release Date:
04/11/2016
Dinny Phipps, great-grandson of Henry Phipps, the partner of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, was chairman of the board at Bessemer from 1976-94.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Jane Mendillo and L. Rafael Reif to its Board of Trustees
Release Date:
04/11/2016
Ms. Mendillo and President Reif will offer wise leadership, grounded in deep and broad experience, as well as steadfast commitment to the Foundation's core constituencies in the humanities, arts, higher education, and cultural organizations," said...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $5.6M to Enable Residencies for Playwrights
Release Date:
04/11/2016
What that means, in a profession that is notoriously short on financial remuneration, is that the designated playwrights will receive full-time salaries and benefits for three years, along with “artistic development funds’’ that they can use for...
ASPCA Marks 150th Anniversary With First NYC Paws Parade
Release Date:
04/11/2016
Along with celebrating the ASPCA — which was founded in New York City in 1866 and is now considered to be the first and oldest animal welfare organization in the country — the day also celebrated local groups who have worked hard to protect "some of...
PhilTV: Women, Own and Embrace Your Power
Release Date:
04/11/2016
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman and Global Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, asserts that female foundation leaders should embrace their gender.
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