Ford Foundation Supports Cultural Mission to Cuba
Release Date:
04/15/2016
Less than a month after the historic visit by President Barack Obama, a U.S. government cultural mission to Cuba will take place from April 18-21, 2016.
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Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care
Release Date:
04/15/2016
Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, one of three foundations that commissioned the survey, said advanced care planning “is not just an extra . . . it’s just as important in its own way as chemotherapy or surgery.”
Megan Holmes to Give Annual Italian Art Society/Kress Lecture
Release Date:
04/15/2016
The annual IAS/Kress Lecture Series in Italy, inaugurated in 2010 with the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, encourages intellectual exchange between North American art historians and the international community of scholars based...
Jerome Foundation Helps Woman Filmmaker Get to Tribeca 2016
Release Date:
04/15/2016
Deb Shoval's film, "AWOL," about a young woman in search of direction in a post-industrial town with little economic opportunity, will premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on April 15.
American Express, Ford Foundation Provide Funds to Restore Hemingway's Famed Cuban Home
Release Date:
04/15/2016
"Lookout Farm," the famed home of the late writer Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, will be restored using materials and funding provided by U.S. organizations, including the Caterpillar Foundation and Caterpillar Inc., the AT&T...
Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing
Release Date:
04/14/2016
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on a collaborative effort to examine how results-based funding could revolutionize America's approach to entrenched social issues.
Rockefeller Foundation Joins Conversation on Flood Resilience
Release Date:
04/14/2016
In order to tackle catastrophic climate-related events including droughts and floods, The Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development and Sida, backed by Zurich Insurance Group and its Z Zurich Foundation, have...
People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg
Release Date:
04/14/2016
Scranton area residents are highly familiar with the good works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, with more than $2 billion in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits annually.
Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts
Release Date:
04/14/2016
A notable voice in Cuban-American art, Garcia Ferraz has received many of this country’s prestigious art awards. They include a Ford Foundation grant in media arts, a MacArthur Foundation media grant, and a Richard Diebenkorn teaching fellowship.
Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans
Release Date:
04/14/2016
The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian Americans and two South Asians among the 30 recipients.
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