All News

What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change Skeptics

Release Date:

06/16/2014

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker writes in an op-ed that recent attempts to discredit Thomas Piketty's research into income inequality remind him of earlier efforts to deny that climate change is a real threat.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Funders Teaming Up to Strengthen Voices of LGBTQ People of Color

Release Date:

06/16/2014

The Ford Foundation is teaming with the Arcus Foundation and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, along with an anonymous donor, to create the first LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund to support new voices and leaders in communities of color.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Arcus Foundation

Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever

Release Date:

06/16/2014

The Simons Foundation has given the University of Hawaii at Manoa $40 million—the largest gift of its kind the university has ever received—for marine life research.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Related Organizations

The Simons Foundation

United Way To Receive $52 Million Over Four Years To Help Turn New York City Schools Into Services Hubs

Release Date:

06/16/2014

NYC will pass a state grant for delinquency prevention worth $13 million a year for four years to the United Way of New York City, which will help identify about 40 schools and nonprofit partners that can team up in high-poverty areas this fall.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

United Way of New York City

New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

Release Date:

06/16/2014

The Open Society Foundations will fund nine nonprofits—from the U.S. to Ghana—to help their new leaders implement their vision.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Funding Area

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

Wellspring Advisors Program Director Andrew Park Heads to The Williams Institute

Release Date:

06/13/2014

The Williams Institute announced Andrew Park is its new International Program Director. Previously, Andrew served as Program Director at Wellspring Advisors, LLC, where he managed domestic and international grant-making programs in the fields of...

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

International/Foreign Affairs

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 1)

Release Date:

06/13/2014

A badge can offer a more complete, accurate depiction of an educational experience than a grade or a test score.

Find More By

News type

Insights

Funding Area

Education

Technology

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

The New York Community Trust

Badge Alliance

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

Release Date:

06/13/2014

Dr. Richard Rockefeller, an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, was killed Friday morning when the small plane he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Rockefeller Family Fund

Report Details Employment Challenges Facing Latino Youth

Release Date:

06/13/2014

A study supported by the Rockefeller Foundation finds that Latinos, the youngest and fastest-growing segment of the American labor force, face considerable challenges gaining stable employment.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Workforce Development

Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

Release Date:

06/13/2014

An article in Inside Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for championing climate change solutions, especially efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution.

Find More By

News type

Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Related Organizations

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Search form

You are here

All News

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Find More By

Pages