A New Funder Embrace for Workforce Development
Release Date:
04/18/2013
After the staggering job losses that followed the economic downturn, many funders considered the best ways to address rampant unemployment.
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Foundations as First Responders?
Release Date:
04/18/2013
We’re pleased to have Brooklyn Community Foundation President Marilyn Gelber share the lessons she’s learned about philanthropic response to disaster — lessons that enabled her to serve Brooklyn and its communities well following Hurricane Sandy.
Philanthropy Is the Go-To Partner for Risk
Release Date:
04/18/2013
The first in a series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’s reflections on the unique strengths and enduring lessons of 100 years of strategic philanthropy.
Foundations as First Responders?
Release Date:
04/18/2013
By Marilyn Gelber, President, Brooklyn Community Foundation When I was in city government (a quite remarkable time in New York City extending from the 1970s to the late 1990s) and some disaster befell us — blackouts, hurricanes,...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Participants of 'Untraditional' Artist Residency Program
Release Date:
04/17/2013
The Doris Duke Building Demand for the Arts program supports partnerships between artists and organizations to create and pilot methods for reaching the public and developing individuals' interest in and access to the performing arts.
More Children in Greece Are Going Hungry
Release Date:
04/17/2013
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation's support of a school lunch program to help combat child hunger in Greece is mentioned in this article.
Small Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer for Reporting
Release Date:
04/16/2013
InsideClimate News, a five-year-old nonprofit environmental journalism outlet supported in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its investigation of a pipeline oil spill in Michigan.
Ms. Foundation for Women Receives Bequest
Release Date:
04/16/2013
The nearly $2 million bequest from the estate of Margaret "Meg" Jacobs is the largest bequest in the organization's forty-year history.
President, Again, Attacks Charitable Deduction
Release Date:
04/11/2013
This examination of President Obama’s federal budget proposal includes comments from Michael Peterson, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Staten Island after Sandy: A Funder Update
Release Date:
04/10/2013
In advance of our Annual Meeting, we’re pleased to have Betsy Dubovsky, Executive Director of The Staten Island Foundation, update us on the relief efforts on Staten Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and what her foundation and other...
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