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.
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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
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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.
Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists
Release Date:
04/08/2016
Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards, given annually to up-and-coming authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the complicated emotions that money can inspire.
Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows
Release Date:
04/08/2016
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'
Release Date:
04/08/2016
"Effectiveness" and "efficiency" are dirty words to some people in academe, often promoted by government technocrats or by those who believe higher education can be reduced to measurable outcomes that show up on the bottom line.
With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years
Release Date:
04/08/2016
The National Gallery of Art is such a fixture in Washington that it’s hard to remember that it didn’t open until 1941, thanks to the vision of Andrew Mellon.
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Announces Open Call for 2017 Grant Applications
Release Date:
04/07/2016
Grant applications are now being accepted through September 15, 2016.
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