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.
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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.
The Role of Philanthropy and Advocacy in Healthcare Reform Implementation
Release Date:
02/21/2013
A report from Philanthropy New York’s “Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where Is Philanthropy?” conference's Health Reform breakout session.
New York Life Awards $5 Million to September 11 Memorial, Museum
Release Date:
02/21/2013
The grant will support construction of an education center that will tell the story and honor the victims of the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Sloan Foundation Announces 2013 Research Fellowships
Release Date:
02/22/2013
Awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955, the 2013 class of fellows includes 126 researchers from 61 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.
CECP Announces 2013 Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy
Release Date:
02/26/2013
The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy awarded its Chairman's Award to IBM for the Smarter Cities Challenge, a three-year, $50 million competitive grant program to make cities around the world smarter and more livable.
Sequestering the Sector
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman discusses what the sequester could mean for the nonprofit sector.
Anti-Polio Campaign Gets Big Cash Infusion
Release Date:
02/28/2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $100 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, bolstering fellow philanthropist Bill Gates' support of GPEI.
Biggest Givers of 2012
Release Date:
03/04/2013
Melissa Berman, President & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is quoted in this analysis of 2012's top donors.
Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus
Release Date:
03/05/2013
This piece by Century Foundation Fellow Andrew Fieldhouse argues for more targeted stimulus spending instead of economic austerity.
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