Small Foundations Can Spur Big Changes: One Grant Maker Shows How
Release Date:
03/24/2013
An op-ed by Emily Tow Jackson, Executive Director of the Tow Foundation.
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Creating a Conversation About Hunger in America
Release Date:
03/19/2013
Nathan Cummings Foundation Board Chair James K. Cummings shares what he learned from taking the SNAP Challenge—spending a week eating on $5.27 a day, the equivalent of the daily Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program budget (commonly known as...
Creating a Conversation About Hunger in America
Release Date:
03/19/2013
By James K. Cummings, Board Chair, Nathan Cummings Foundation This past week, I undertook a “SNAP Challenge” in which I spent the week eating on approximately $5.27 a day — the equivalent of the daily Supplemental Nutrition...
The New Nonprofit: A Model for Innovation Across Sectors
Release Date:
03/14/2013
We’re pleased to have Susan L. Solomon, CEO and Co-Founder of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, talk about how organizations like hers are leading the charge as a new force for innovation, changing the philanthropic landscape in New York and...
The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait
Release Date:
03/14/2013
A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, the celebrated Revolutionary War-era painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas in a 50-50...
The New Nonprofit: A Model for Innovation Across Sectors
Release Date:
03/14/2013
By Susan L. Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Nonprofits play a critical part in the national economy. The nonprofit sector employs 10 percent of workers nationwide...
Providence Wins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Cities Challenge
Release Date:
03/13/2013
The Providence Talks project, which will help low-income parents improve their kids’ language skills, secured the $5 million top prize for Providence, R.I., in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge.
Infusion Bolsters Nonprofit
Release Date:
03/11/2013
Community Preservation Corp., a 38-year-old nonprofit lender, has received a $250 million infusion of capital from Citigroup to revive the organization and allow it to refocus on its core mission of rehabilitating affordable housing in lower-income...
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...
5 Questions for…Melissa Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Tides
Release Date:
03/11/2013
Regina Mahone’s interview with Tides CEO Melissa Bradley originally appeared on PhilanTopic , the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on February 22, 2013 and is reprinted with permission. Philanthropy News Digest : Tell us about the...
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