Rockefeller Foundation Supports 'Food for Soul' to Combat Food Waste
Release Date:
04/13/2017
Backing from the Foundation will enable Food for Soul to take its successful Refettorio model to some of the USA’s most vulnerable communities.
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Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations
Release Date:
04/13/2017
This is the benefactor who built chicken coops inside a Manhattan high-rise, released mosquitoes on an unsuspecting audience, and drank purified poop water—all to make some larger point more memorable.
NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color
Release Date:
04/13/2017
The New York City-based NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the youngest son of Warren Buffett, says it will let the girls and their advocates on the local level determine what their needs are, rather than be told what...
Mellon Foundation President Explores The Haunting Shadow of Slavery
Release Date:
04/13/2017
As the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first Africans into colonial Jamestown approaches in 2019, Earl Lewis — president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — argued that it is important to acknowledge that “slavery still haunts us today...
Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments
Release Date:
04/13/2017
Xavier de Souza Briggs , the foundation’s vice president for Economic Opportunity and Markets, discusses the foundation's work on mission-related investments with Lenora Suki , head of sustainable finance product...
Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Tony brings more than a decade of experience at the cutting edge of digital media, in both analytics and content, to help guide MDIF’s investments in independent news businesses in countries with challenging media environments.
'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Through its Building Bridges grants program, the DDCF is committed to finding common ground between American Muslims and non-Muslims through the arts.
Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform.
Helmsley Charitable Trust's Rural Healthcare Program Gives $400K to Community Hospital
Release Date:
04/12/2017
Pender Community Hospital has received a $400,000 grant to be used to purchase a new CT scanner.
North Star Fund Announces 2017 North Star and Frederick Douglass Awardees
Release Date:
04/12/2017
North Star Fund announced the individuals and organizations it will honor with its esteemed annual awards for outstanding contributions to creating a more just and equitable New York.
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